Skagen
Skagen is a town in North Jutland. In the Danish language, the town is namesake of the very sand spit it is located on, and the name 'Skagen' can refer to both. In the English language, the spit is known as the Skaw Spit.
- Type: Town with 8,040 residents
- Description: northernmost town in Denmark
- Also known as: “Vendilskagi”, “スカーゲン岬”, “スカゲン”, “スケーイン”, “スケーエン”, “スケーヒン”, and “斯卡根”
- Postal code: 9990
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skagens Museum and Skagen railway station.
Skagens Museum
Museum
Photo: Zejo, Public domain.Skagen railway station
Railway station
Anchers Hus
Museum
Anchers Hus is an art museum and gallery situated in the former residence of the painters Michael and Anna Ancher in Skagen, Denmark. Anchers Hus is located on Markvej in Skagen, Denmark.
Skagen
- Category: locality
- Location: Frederikshavn Municipality, North Jutland, Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.726° or 57° 43′ 34″ north
Longitude
10.5845° or 10° 35′ 4″ east
Population
8,040
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
QJV
United Nations Location Code
DK SKA
Open location code
9F9GPHGM+9Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Skagen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Skagen”
- Albanian: “Skagen”
- Arabic: “سكاجن”
- Aragonese: “Skagen”
- Armenian: “Սկագեն”
- Arpitan: “Skagen”
- Asturian: “Skagen”
- Basque: “Skagen”
- Bavarian: “Skagen”
- Belarusian: “Скаген”
- Bengali: “স্কাগেন”
- Breton: “Skagen”
- Bulgarian: “Скаген”
- Catalan: “Skagen”
- Cebuano: “Skagen”
- Chinese: “斯卡恩”
- Corsican: “Skagen”
- Croatian: “Skagen”
- Czech: “Skagen”
- Danish: “Skagen”
- Dutch: “Skagen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكاجن”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكاجين”
- Esperanto: “Skagen”
- Estonian: “Skagen”
- Faroese: “Skagen”
- Finnish: “Skagen”
- French: “Skagen”
- Friulian: “Skagen”
- Galician: “Skagen”
- German: “Skagen”
- Hebrew: “סקיין”
- Hungarian: “Skagen”
- Icelandic: “Skagen”
- Ido: “Skagen”
- Indonesian: “Skagen”
- Interlingua: “Skagen”
- Interlingue: “Skagen”
- Irish: “Skagen”
- Italian: “Skagen”
- Japanese: “スカーイェン”
- Jèrriais: “Skagen”
- Kalaallisut: “Skagen”
- Kongo: “Skagen”
- Korean: “스카겐”
- Ligurian: “Skagen”
- Limburgan: “Skagen”
- Lithuanian: “Skagenas”
- Low German: “Skagen”
- Luxembourgish: “Skagen”
- Macedonian: “Скаген”
- Malagasy: “Skagen”
- Malay: “Skagen”
- Minangkabau: “Skagen”
- Neapolitan: “Skagen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skagen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skagen”
- Norwegian: “Skagen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Skagen”
- Ossetian: “Скаген”
- Persian: “اسکاگن”
- Picard: “Skagen”
- Piemontese: “Skagen”
- Polish: “Skagen”
- Portuguese: “Skagen”
- Romanian: “Skagen”
- Romansh: “Skagen”
- Russian: “Скаген”
- Sardinian: “Skagen”
- Scots: “Skagen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Skagen”
- Serbian: “Skagen”
- Sicilian: “Skagen”
- Slovak: “Skagen”
- Slovenian: “Skagen”
- Spanish: “Skagen”
- Swahili: “Skagen”
- Swedish: “Skagen”
- Swiss German: “Skagen”
- Turkish: “Skagen”
- Ukrainian: “Скаген”
- Urdu: “اسکاگن”
- Venetian: “Skagen”
- Vietnamese: “Skagen”
- Vlaams: “Skagen”
- Volapük: “Skagen”
- Walloon: “Skagen”
- Welsh: “Skagen”
- Western Frisian: “Skagen”
- Wolof: “Skagen”
- Zeeuws: “Skagen”
- Zulu: “Skagen”
- “Skagen”
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