Jutland
North Jutland
Frederikshavn Municipality

Skagen

Skagen is a town in . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 8,040 residents
  • Description: northernmost town in Denmark
  • Postal code: 9990
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Skagens Museum and Skagen railway station.

Museum
Photo: Zejo, Public domain.
is an art museum in Skagen, , that exhibits an extensive collection of works by members of the colony of Skagen Painters who lived and worked in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Railway station
Photo: Mef.ellingen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station serving the town of Skagen in Vendsyssel, . The station is located in the central part of the town by its main artery Sankt Laurentii Vej.

Lighthouse
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Skagen's White Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse just north of the town of Skagen in the far north of , Denmark. It was operational from 1747 to 1858 when it was replaced by .

Skagen

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
node 2208554046
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2613939
Wiki­data ID
Q215177
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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”
  • Chinese: “斯卡根”
  • 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”
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  • Galician: “Skagen”
  • German: “Skagen”
  • Hebrew: “סקיין”
  • Hungarian: “Skagen”
  • Icelandic: “Skagen”
  • Icelandic: “Vendilskagi”
  • Ido: “Skagen”
  • Indonesian: “Skagen”
  • Interlingua: “Skagen”
  • Interlingue: “Skagen”
  • Irish: “Skagen”
  • Italian: “Skagen”
  • Japanese: “スカーイェン”
  • Japanese: “スカーゲン岬”
  • Japanese: “スカゲン”
  • Japanese: “スケーイン”
  • Japanese: “スケーエン”
  • Japanese: “スケーヒン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Skagen”
  • Kongo: “Skagen”
  • Korean: “스카겐”
  • Ligurian: “Skagen”
  • Limburgan: “Skagen”
  • Lithuanian: “Skagenas”
  • Low German: “Skagen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Skagen”
  • Macedonian: “Скаген”
  • Malagasy: “Skagen”
  • Malay: “Skagen”
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  • Narom: “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”
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  • Swedish: “Skagen”
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  • Ukrainian: “Скаген”
  • Venetian: “Skagen”
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  • Vlaams: “Skagen”
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  • Walloon: “Skagen”
  • Welsh: “Skagen”
  • Western Frisian: “Skagen”
  • Wolof: “Skagen”
  • Zulu: “Skagen”
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