Roskilde
Roskilde is in West Zealand, Denmark, 35 km west of Copenhagen. Roskilde is an ancient city dating from the Viking age. The most important historical sights are the Viking Museum and Roskilde Cathedral, World Heritage site.
- Type: City with 50,800 residents
- Description: city in Denmark
- Also known as: “Roeskilde”, “Roskilde Komuun”, “Рёскильде”, “רוסקילה”, “로스킬데”, and “ロスキルデ”
- Postal code: 4000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Roskilde Cathedral and Viking Ship Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sankt Jørgensbjerg and Musicon.
Sankt Jørgensbjerg
Neighborhood
Sankt Jørgensbjerg is a district of Roskilde on the Danish island of Zealand.
Roskilde
- Category: locality
- Location: Roskilde Municipality, Region Zealand, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
55.6433° or 55° 38′ 36″ north
Longitude
12.0819° or 12° 4′ 55″ east
Population
50,800
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
IATA airport code
RKE
UN/LOCODE
DK RKE
Open location code
9F7JJ3VJ+8Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Roskilde” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Roskilde”
- Arabic: “روسكيلدا”
- Aragonese: “Roskilde”
- Armenian: “Ռոսկիլդե”
- Armenian: “Ռոսկիլե”
- Asturian: “Roskilde”
- Azerbaijani: “Roskille”
- Basque: “Roskilde”
- Belarusian: “Роскіле”
- Breton: “Roskilde”
- Bulgarian: “Роскиле”
- Catalan: “Roskilde”
- Cebuano: “Roskilde (kapital sa munisipyo sa Dinamarka)”
- Cebuano: “Roskilde”
- Chinese: “罗斯基勒”
- Chinese: “羅斯基勒”
- Chuvash: “Роскильде”
- Czech: “Roskilde”
- Danish: “Roskilde”
- Dimli (individual language): “Roskilde”
- Dutch: “Roskilde”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روسكيلدا”
- Esperanto: “Roskilde”
- Estonian: “Roskilde”
- Extremaduran: “Roskilde”
- Faroese: “Roskilde”
- Finnish: “Roskilde”
- French: “Roskilde”
- Galician: “Roskilde”
- Georgian: “როსკილე”
- German: “Roskilde”
- Greek: “Ρόσκιλε”
- Hebrew: “רוסקילדה”
- Hungarian: “Roskilde”
- Icelandic: “Hróarskelda”
- Ido: “Roskilde”
- Indonesian: “Roskilde”
- Interlingua: “Roskilde”
- Irish: “Roskilde”
- Italian: “Roskilde”
- Japanese: “ロスキレ”
- Kalaallisut: “Roskilde”
- Kashubian: “Roskilde”
- Korean: “로스킬레”
- Latin: “Roschildia”
- Latin: “Roskilde”
- Latin: “Roskildia”
- Latvian: “Roskilde”
- Lithuanian: “Roskildė”
- Lombard: “Roskilde”
- Macedonian: “Роскилд”
- Macedonian: “Роскилде”
- Malay: “Roskilde”
- Maori: “Roskilde”
- Northern Frisian: “Roskilde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roskilde”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roskilde”
- Norwegian: “Roskilde”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Roskilde”
- Ossetian: “Роскилле”
- Persian: “راسکیله”
- Persian: “روسکیلد”
- Polish: “Roskilde”
- Portuguese: “Roskilde”
- Romanian: “Roskilde”
- Russian: “Роскилле”
- Saterfriesisch: “Roskilde”
- Scots: “Roskilde”
- Serbian: “Роскилде”
- Slovak: “Roskilde”
- Slovenian: “Roskilde”
- Spanish: “Roskilde”
- Swahili: “Roskilde”
- Swedish: “Roskilde”
- Tatar: “Роскилле”
- Thai: “รอสกิลด์”
- Turkish: “Roskilde”
- Ukrainian: “Роскілле”
- Urdu: “راسکیلے”
- Vietnamese: “Roskilde”
- Volapük: “Roskilde”
- Waray (Philippines): “Roskilde”
- Welsh: “Roskilde”
- Western Frisian: “Roskilde”
- Wu Chinese: “罗斯基勒”
- Yue Chinese: “羅斯基勒”
- Zeeuws: “Roskilde”
- “Roskilde”
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