Broager

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Broager

Total population

3,300

Elevation34 m

Coordinates54.89°, 9.67°

Demographic figures from Statistics Denmark. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Broager is a town with a population of 3,202 in Sønderborg Municipality in Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark. It lies on the Broager Peninsula and is therefore surrounded by water on three sides, the waters of Flensborg Fjord leading into the Baltic Sea. The town of Broager lies in the middle of the peninsula by a major road, which leads to the Egernsund Bridge, which crosses over the Egern Strait to the Jutland mainland. The town's two-towered church is its most important landmark.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

M

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen

German psychoanalyst (1917–2012)

Z

Zacharias Lund

German librarian

J

Jørgen Ringnis

Danish carver

A

Arndt Georg Nissen

German painter and yacht racer (1907-1979)

Ludvig Harboe

Norwegian bishop

Wilhelm Voigt

German architect (1857–1916)

Heinrich Petersen-Angeln

painter (1850-1906)

Richard Dethlefsen

German architect and art historian (1864–1944)

P

Peter Jebsen

Norwegian politician (1824-1892)

Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen

Danish historian (1840-1897)

Ralph Mallée

German chess player

A

Andreas Hohwü

clockmaker (1803–1885)

Johannes Gelert

Danish-American sculptor (1852-1923)

O

Otto Christian Leonor Gelert

Danish botanist (1862-1899)

Jens Jensen

Danish-American landscape designer (1860–1951)

C

Christian Petersen

American sculptor of Danish descent (1885–1961)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Southern Denmark

• Dybbøl
  2.8 mi away · pop. 2,495
• Egernsund
  2.8 mi away · pop. 1,556
• Skelde
  3.1 mi away · pop. 302
• Gråsten
  3.6 mi away · pop. 4,168
• Vester Sottrup
  4.2 mi away · pop. 1,470
• Rinkenæs
  4.2 mi away · pop. 1,223
• Avnbøl
  4.9 mi away · pop. 392
• Sønderborg
  5 mi away · pop. 27,785
• Ullerup
  5.3 mi away · pop. 416
• Kær
  6.1 mi away · pop. 318
• Blans
  7 mi away · pop. 509
• Tørsbøl
  7.2 mi away · pop. 270

Browse all places in Southern Denmark →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Anchomenus dorsalis

Anchomenus dorsalis

Seen 2026-09-21

Common Drone Fly

Eristalis tenax

Seen 2026-09-20

European Searocket

Cakile maritima

Seen 2026-09-20

Box Tree Moth

Cydalima perspectalis

Seen 2026-09-20

Eurasian Kestrel

Falco tinnunculus

Seen 2026-09-18

Zygiobia carpini

Zygiobia carpini

Seen 2026-09-18

blusher

Amanita rubescens

Seen 2026-09-18

Speckled Wood

Pararge aegeria

Seen 2026-09-18

Dryad's Saddle

Cerioporus squamosus

Seen 2026-09-17

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers