Denmark
Region of Southern Denmark
Vejen Municipality

Vejen

Vejen is a railway town of about 10,000 people between and in . The town emerged in ancient times as an important waypoint for agricultural transport on the Jutlandic Ox Road trail, used for herding cattle and soldiers from Denmark to Germany.
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  • Type: Town with 9,760 residents
  • Description: town in Denmark
  • Also known as: “Vejen Municipality”
  • Postal code: 6600

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vejen Art Museum and Vejen railway station.

Museum
Photo: Heidi Müller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an art gallery in the town Vejen in the south of , Denmark. It specializes in works from the end of the 19th century in styles including Symbolism and Art Nouveau.

Railway station
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station serving the large railway town of Vejen between the cities of and in , . is located on the Lunderskov–Esbjerg railway line from Lunderskov to Esbjerg.

Town hall
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Askov.

Village
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small town, with a population of 1,974, in , Southern Denmark Region in . is located just west of Vejen. The two towns are separated by a few hundred meters of open land and are connected by a combined road and bicycle path with street lights.

Vejen

Latitude
55.4743° or 55° 28′ 28″ north
Longitude
9.1318° or 9° 7′ 55″ east
Population
9,760
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DK VJN
Open location code
9F7FF4FJ+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26559236
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2610634
Wiki­data ID
Q1016313
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Vejen” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Վայեն”
  • Asturian: “Vejen”
  • Catalan: “Municipi de Vejen”
  • Catalan: “Vejen”
  • Cebuano: “Vejen”
  • Chinese: “瓦伊恩”
  • Chinese: “瓦伊恩自治市”
  • Danish: “Vejen”
  • Dutch: “Vejen”
  • Esperanto: “Vejen”
  • Faroese: “Vejen”
  • Finnish: “Vejen”
  • Finnish: “Vejenin kunta”
  • French: “Vejen”
  • Georgian: “ვეიენის მუნიციპალიტეტი”
  • German: “Vejen Kommune”
  • German: “Vejen”
  • Hungarian: “Vejen”
  • Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Vejen”
  • Italian: “Vejen”
  • Japanese: “ヴァイェン”
  • Low German: “Kommun Vejen”
  • Malay: “Vejen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vejen Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vejen Komuun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vejen”
  • Norwegian: “Vejen kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Vejen”
  • Persian: “وجن”
  • Polish: “Vejen”
  • Portuguese: “Vejen”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Vejen”
  • Russian: “Вайен”
  • Slovenian: “Vejen”
  • Spanish: “Vejen”
  • Swedish: “Vejen”
  • Turkish: “Vejen”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваєн”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Vejen”. Photo: Spar Es Danmark, CC BY 3.0.