Tower
A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tower
- Description: structure with height greater than width
- Also known as: “Tinghøjtårnet” and “tower”
Photo: Taxiarchos228, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: TimWu007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vebbestrup Church.
Vebbestrup Church
Church
Photo: Bococo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vebbestrup Church is situated 4 km northwest of Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vebbestrup and Valsgård.
Vebbestrup
Village
Photo: Bococo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vebbestrup is a village, which is situated 4 km northwest of Tower.
Valsgård
Village
Photo: Bococo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Valsgård is a village, which is situated 4 km south of Tower.
Tower
- Categories: type of structure, building, and architectural structure
- Location: Mariagerfjord Municipality, North Jutland, Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.70775° or 56° 42′ 28″ northLongitude
9.87745° or 9° 52′ 39″ eastInception
1959Height
148 metres (486 feet)Open location code
9F8FPV5G+3XOpenStreetMap ID
way 729069039OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q12518
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tower” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “toring”
- Afrikaans: “Toring”
- Albanian: “kulla”
- Albanian: “Kulla”
- Albanian: “kullë”
- Arabic: “برج (عمارة)”
- Arabic: “برج”
- Aragonese: “Torre”
- Armenian: “Աշտարակ (կառույց)”
- Armenian: “աշտարակ”
- Armenian: “Աշտարակ”
- Assamese: “টাৱাৰ”
- Assamese: “মিনাৰ”
- Asturian: “torre”
- Asturian: “Torre”
- Azerbaijani: “Qüllə (memarlıq)”
- Azerbaijani: “Qüllə”
- Banjar: “Pagungan”
- Bashkir: “Башня”
- Basque: “dorre”
- Basque: “Dorre”
- Bavarian: “Tuam”
- Belarusian: “вежа”
- Belarusian: “Вежа”
- Bengali: “টাওয়ার”
- Bengali: “সুউচ্চ স্থাপনা”
- Bosnian: “toranj”
- Bosnian: “Toranj”
- Breton: “tour (savadur)”
- Breton: “tour”
- Breton: “Tour”
- Bulgarian: “Кула”
- Burmese: “မျှော်စင်”
- Catalan: “torre”
- Catalan: “Torre”
- Central Kurdish: “بورج”
- Central Kurdish: “تاوەر”
- Central Kurdish: “کەلوو”
- Chechen: “БӀов”
- Cherokee: “ᎢᎾᎢᎦᏘ ᎠᏁᏍᎨᏓ”
- Chinese: “Thah”
- Chinese: “塔式建筑”
- Chinese: “塔式建築”
- Chinese: “臺”
- Chinese: “西洋塔”
- Church Slavic: “трѣмъ”
- Cornish: “Tour”
- Crimean Tatar: “Qulle”
- Croatian: “toranj”
- Croatian: “Toranj”
- Czech: “věž”
- Czech: “Věž”
- Danish: “tårn”
- Danish: “Tårn”
- Dutch: “toren”
- Dutch: “Toren”
- Eastern Mari: “башне”
- Eastern Mari: “Башне”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برج”
- Erzya: “кевмар”
- Esperanto: “turo”
- Esperanto: “Turo”
- Estonian: “torn”
- Estonian: “Torn”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tower”
- Finnish: “torni”
- Finnish: “Torni”
- French: “tour”
- French: “Tour”
- Galician: “torre (construción)”
- Galician: “torre”
- Galician: “Torre”
- Georgian: “კოშკი”
- German: “Turm”
- Greek: “πύργος”
- Greek: “Πύργος”
- Guarani: “ogayvatepo’i”
- Guarani: “tórre”
- Guianese Creole French: “Tour (édifis)”
- Guianese Creole French: “tour”
- Guianese Creole French: “Tour”
- Hausa: “bene”
- Hawaiian: “kowela”
- Hebrew: “מגדל”
- Hindi: “बुर्ज”
- Hungarian: “torony (építmény)”
- Hungarian: “torony”
- Hungarian: “Torony”
- Iban: “Menara”
- Icelandic: “turn”
- Icelandic: “Turn”
- Ido: “Turmo”
- Iloko: “torre”
- Iloko: “Torre”
- Inari Sami: “tornâ”
- Indonesian: “menara”
- Indonesian: “Menara”
- Interlingua: “Turre”
- Irish: “túr (foirgneamh)”
- Irish: “túr”
- Irish: “Túr”
- Italian: “torre”
- Italian: “Torre”
- Italian: “torri”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Towa”
- Japanese: “タワー”
- Japanese: “塔”
- Javanese: “Menara”
- Kabiyè: “kulukulu kuduyuu (Tour)”
- Kabiyè: “Kulukulu kuduyuu”
- Kabyle: “Berǧ (tasegda)”
- Kabyle: “Berǧ”
- Kalmyk: “Цамхаг”
- Kashubian: “torma”
- Kashubian: “wieżô”
- Kazakh: “Мұнара”
- Kirghiz: “Мунара”
- Korean: “탑”
- Kurdish: “birc”
- Latin: “turris”
- Latin: “Turris”
- Latvian: “tornis”
- Latvian: “Tornis”
- Literary Chinese: “臺”
- Lithuanian: “Bokštas (statinys)”
- Lithuanian: “Bokštas”
- Lombard: “Torr”
- Low German: “Toorn”
- Lule Sami: “toarnna”
- Luxembourgish: “Tuerm”
- Macedonian: “кула”
- Macedonian: “Кула”
- Malagasy: “Tilikambo”
- Malay: “menara”
- Malay: “Menara”
- Malayalam: “ഗോപുരം”
- Maltese: “torri”
- Maltese: “Torri”
- Marathi: “मनोरा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thah”
- Minangkabau: “Minaro”
- Mongolian: “Цамхаг”
- Narom: “Tou”
- Northern Sami: “doardna”
- Northern Sami: “toardna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “tårn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “tårn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tårn”
- Norwegian: “Tårn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Torre”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܓܕܠܐ (ܒܢܝܢܐ)”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܓܕܠܐ”
- Ossetian: “мæсгуытæ”
- Ossetian: “мæсыг”
- Ossetian: “Мæсыг”
- Panjabi: “ਟਾਵਰ”
- Persian: “برج (سازه)”
- Persian: “برج”
- Piemontese: “Tor”
- Pite Sami: “tårdn”
- Polish: “wieża”
- Polish: “Wieża”
- Portuguese: “torre”
- Portuguese: “Torre”
- Quechua: “Turri”
- Romanian: “turn”
- Romanian: “Turn”
- Russia Buriat: “Самхаг”
- Russian: “башня”
- Russian: “Башня”
- Samogitian: “Buokšts”
- Serbian: “торањ”
- Serbian: “Торањ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “toranj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Toranj”
- Sicilian: “turri”
- Sicilian: “Turri”
- Silesian: “wieża”
- Sindhi: “برج (عمارت)”
- Sindhi: “برج”
- Sinhala: “කුළුණු”
- Slovak: “veža”
- Slovak: “Veža”
- Slovenian: “stolp”
- Slovenian: “Stolp”
- South Azerbaijani: “بورج (تیکینتی)”
- South Azerbaijani: “بورج (معمارلیق)”
- South Azerbaijani: “بورج”
- Spanish: “torre”
- Spanish: “Torre”
- Swahili: “Mnara”
- Swedish: “torn”
- Swedish: “Torn”
- Swiss German: “Turm”
- Tagalog: “Tore”
- Tamil: “கோபுரம்”
- Tatar: “manara”
- Tatar: “qalança”
- Tatar: “каланча”
- Tatar: “манара”
- Thai: “หอคอย”
- Tosk Albanian: “Turm”
- Turkish: “kule”
- Turkish: “Kule”
- Udmurt: “башня”
- Udmurt: “кабаз”
- Uighur: “مۇنار”
- Ukrainian: “башта”
- Ukrainian: “вежа”
- Ukrainian: “Вежа”
- Upper Sorbian: “wěža”
- Urdu: “برج (تعمیرات)”
- Urdu: “برج”
- Uzbek: “Minora”
- Venetian: “tore”
- Veps: “Čuhunduz”
- Vietnamese: “tháp”
- Vietnamese: “Tháp”
- Vlaams: “Torre”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lantawan”
- Waray (Philippines): “tore”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tore”
- Welsh: “tŵr”
- Welsh: “Tŵr”
- Western Armenian: “Աշտարակներ”
- Western Frisian: “toer (bouwurk)”
- Western Frisian: “toer”
- Western Frisian: “Toer”
- Western Panjabi: “برج”
- Wu Chinese: “塔式建筑”
- Xhosa: “Inqaba”
- Yakut: “Тала”
- Yiddish: “טורעם”
- Yue Chinese: “西洋塔”
- “Buokšts”
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