Skjern

Skjern is a railway town just north of the in western , with a population of 7,775. The town was the seat of the former Skjern Municipality, though since 2007 it has been the joint administrative seat of .
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  • Type: Town with 7,870 residents
  • Description: Danish town
  • Also known as: “Skern”, “Skerne”, and “Skjern, Denmark”
  • Postal code: 6900
Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Skjern railway station and Skjern Reberbane.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a railway station serving the town of Skjern in West Jutland, . The station is located on the West Jutland longitudinal railway line from to Struer and is the western terminus of the Skanderborg–Skjern railway line from to Skjern.

Museum
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Park
Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park.

Skjern

Latitude
55.9469° or 55° 56′ 49″ north
Longitude
8.4909° or 8° 29′ 27″ east
Population
7,870
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
STA
United Nations Location Code
DK SKJ
Open location code
9F7CWFWR+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2388778274
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2613715
Wiki­data ID
Q2035962
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Skjern” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Skjern”
  • Belarusian: “Ск’ерн”
  • Catalan: “Skjern”
  • Cebuano: “Skjern”
  • Chinese: “斯凱恩”
  • Czech: “Skjern”
  • Danish: “Skjern”
  • Dutch: “Skjern”
  • Esperanto: “Skjern”
  • Faroese: “Skjern”
  • Finnish: “Skjern”
  • French: “Skjern”
  • German: “Skjern”
  • Italian: “Skjern”
  • Japanese: “スケアン”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skjern”
  • Norwegian: “Skjern”
  • Polish: “Gmina Skjern”
  • Polish: “Skjern”
  • Portuguese: “Skjern”
  • Romanian: “Skjern”
  • Russian: “Скьерн”
  • Slovenian: “Skjern”
  • Spanish: “Skjern”
  • Swedish: “Skjern”
  • Turkish: “Skjern”
  • “Skjern”

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