Denmark Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap exports of settlements and residential areas across Denmark, provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas, sourced from the collaborative OSM mapping project. It was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements and residential land areas.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for planning or analysis using the categorized place data.
• Analyze population distribution patterns based on the residential landuse data.

Strengths

• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Data is licensed under the open ODbL-1.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-built collaborative mapping.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 11:19:04.227497; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Denmark