Farum
Sign in to saveFarum is a town on the northeast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark, 20 km northwest of Copenhagen. The town has a population of 20,369 (1 January 2025). The town is part of Furesø Municipality. Until 2006, it constituted Farum Municipality.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Farum
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Farum Kirke fra nordøst.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Farum church
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Denmark#Denmark Capital Region
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Denmark
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Denmark
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Region Hovedstaden
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Furesø Municipality
- Settlement.area_urban_km2
- 7.8
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_urban
- 20369
- Settlement.population_density_urban_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Gender
- Settlement.population_blank1
- 9847 males and 10522 females
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Farum Municipality
- Elevation
- 33
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Farum Municipality
- Image
- Farum landsby01.JPG
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Farum is a town on the northeast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark, 20 km northwest of Copenhagen. The town has a population of 20,369 (1 January 2025). The town is part of Furesø Municipality. Until 2006, it constituted Farum Municipality.
==History== Farum has existed for more than 1000 years. The name Farum refers to the founding fathers, sea merchants, who migrated from Bremen, Germany. At the time there was clear passage from the sea to Farum. This has since been filled with silt and by civic demands for more land. Around 1100, the community's first stone church was built: parts of it remain in the present church of Farum. In the 14th century, a damming project flooded the old ford and redirected much of the traffic bound for Copenhagen towards Fiskebæk, a short distance further south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Farum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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