Sorø

Sorø is a town in Sorø municipality on the island of Zealand in east with a population of 8,433. It lies on the northeastern shore of Sorø Lake.
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  • Type: Town with 7,960 residents
  • Description: town in Sorø municipality in Region Sjælland, Denmark
  • Also known as: Sorö
  • Postal code: 4180

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sorø Art Museum and Sorø Abbey Church.

Museum
is an art museum located in Sorø, . It displays a representative collection of Danish art as well as a collection of Russian art, covering both painting from 1870 to 1930 and Russian icons, and also hosts special exhibitions both of classical and contemporary art.

Church
is a church located in the town of Sorø. It was founded by Danish archbishop Absalon and built by Cistercians in the period from 1161 to 1201.

Museum
is a local history museum in Sorø, . It is housed within an old inn from 1624, one of the oldest buildings in the town.

Sorø

Latitude
55.4366° or 55° 26′ 12″ north
Longitude
11.5629° or 11° 33′ 47″ east
Population
7,960
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DK SRO
Open location code
9F7HCHP7+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26559256
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2612862
Wiki­data ID
Q27858
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In Other Languages

From Aragonese to Western Frisian—“Sorø” goes by many names.
  • Aragonese: Sorø
  • Armenian: Սորյո
  • Asturian: Sorø
  • Azerbaijani: Soryo
  • Belarusian: Сорэ
  • Catalan: Soro
  • Catalan: Sorø
  • Cebuano: Sorø
  • Chinese: Sorø
  • Chinese: 索勒
  • Cornish: Sorø
  • Czech: Sorø
  • Danish: Sorø
  • Dutch: Soro
  • Dutch: Sorø
  • Estonian: Sorö
  • Estonian: Sorø
  • Finnish: Sorö
  • Finnish: Sorø
  • French: Sorø
  • German: Sorö
  • German: Sorø
  • Hebrew: סורה
  • Hungarian: Sorø
  • Icelandic: Sórey
  • Indonesian: Sorø
  • Irish: Sorø
  • Italian: Sorø
  • Japanese: ソーレ
  • Japanese: ソレ
  • Korean: 소뢰
  • Latin: Sora
  • Lithuanian: Sorė
  • Macedonian: Соре
  • Malay: Sorø
  • Northern Frisian: Sorø
  • Northern Sami: Sorø
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sorø
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Sorø
  • Norwegian: Sorø
  • Occitan (post 1500): Sorø
  • Ossetian: Сорё
  • Persian: سورئو
  • Polish: Soro
  • Polish: Sorø
  • Portuguese: Sorø
  • Romanian: Soro
  • Romanian: Sorø
  • Russian: Сорё
  • Serbian: Соре
  • Slovenian: Sorø
  • Spanish: Sorø
  • Swedish: Sorö
  • Swedish: Sorø
  • Turkish: Sorø
  • Ukrainian: Соро
  • Vietnamese: Sorø
  • Welsh: Sorø
  • Western Frisian: Sorø (plak)
  • Western Frisian: Sorø

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sorø”. Photo: Martin Nikolaj Christensen, CC BY 2.0.