Kongens Lyngby is the main city in the affluent Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk

Lyngby-Taarbæk

Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden near Copenhagen on the east coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 39 km², and has a total population of 51,449 . Its mayor as of 2010 is Søren P...

. Just north of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, the city lies in the northern part of Denmark's largest island, Zealand (Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

, Sjælland). The city has two districts: Lyngby (east of Lyngby station

Lyngby station

Lyngby station is a station on the Hillerød radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located centrally in Kongens Lyngby. With its large bus terminal, it is an important hub for public transport in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen....

) and Ulrikkenborg (west of the station).

Lyngby is home to the Lyngby Boldklub

Lyngby Boldklub

Lyngby Boldklub is a professional Danish football club founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC.-History:...

 football team, several large IT companies, financial institutions, the major international engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 firm COWI A/S

COWI A/S

COWI A/S is an international consulting group, specialising in engineering, environmental science and economics, based in Lyngby, Denmark.It has been involved in more than 50,000 projects in 175 countries...

, Bang & Olufsen ICEpower

ICEpower

Bang & Olufsen ICEpower a/s is a Danish research and development company specialising in audio applications of Class D amplifiers. ICEpower develops business-to-business solutions for end producers.-History:...

 a/s, and the Lyngby-Taarbæk Philharmonic Orchestra

Lyngby-Taarbæk Symfoniorkester

Lyngby-Taarbæk Symfoniorkester is a full philharmonic amateur orchestra based in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. It consists of a mixed group of conservatory students and amateur musicians, ranging in age from the early teens to the 50s and 60s...

.

Kongens Lyngby borders: Brede

Brede

Brede is the name for several places, among others:* the River Brede in East Sussex, England* Brede, East Sussex, a village near the River Brede* Brede, Denmark, a suburb of the Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality...

, site of the Technical University of Denmark

Technical University of Denmark

The Technical University of Denmark , often simply referred to as DTU, is a university just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and is today ranked among Europe's leading engineering institutions, and the...

; the municipality of Gentofte

Gentofte

Gentofte Kommune is a municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark on the east coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and has a total population of 68,913...

 (the most affluent in Denmark); Sorgenfri

Sorgenfri

Sorgenfri is a neighbourhood in Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality in Greater Copenhagen lying just north of Kongens Lyngby. It is the site of Sorgenfri Palace....

, where the Danish Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Denmark

The Prime Minister of Denmark is the head of government in Danish politics. The Prime Minister is traditionally the leader of a political coalition in the Folketing and presides over the cabinet....

's official residence, Marienborg

Marienborg

Marienborg is the summer residence of Denmark's Prime Minister, and is frequently used for official purposes. It is situated on the shore of Lake Bagsværd in Kongens Lyngby, north of Copenhagen in North Zealand.-Private History:...

, lies; and the Gladsaxe

Gladsaxe

Gladsaxe Kommune is a municipality near Copenhagen in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 25 km², and has a total population of 62,562...

 municipality.

External links

• Kongens Lyngby, Wikitravel
  Wikitravel
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  - travel guide

Maps

• "Kort over kommunen" - Low resolution map over the entire municipality