Helsingør

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Helsingr ( HEL-sing-UR, Danish: [helse]; Swedish: Helsingr), classically known in English as Elsinore ( EL-sin-or, -OR), is a coastal city in northeastern Denmark. Helsingr Municipality had a population of 63,838 on 1 January 2024, making it the 23rd most populated municipality in Denmark. Helsingr is located at the narrowest part of the resund strait and together with Helsingborg in Sweden, forms the northern reaches of the resund Region, centred on Copenhagen and Malm. Helsingr is a ferry city with frequent departures with the HH Ferry route which connects Helsingr with Helsingborg, 4 km (2.5 mi) across the resund.Its castle Kronborg was used by William Shakespeare as the setting for his play Hamlet.== Etymology ==The first part of the name, Hels, is believed to derive from the word hals 'neck; narrow strait', referring to the narrowest point of the resund (re Sound) between what is now Helsingr and Helsingborg in Sweden. The word Helsing supposedly means 'person/people who live by the neck' and r corresponds to old Norse aurr 'gravel beach' and eyrr 'sandy or gravelly shore'. The city was first mentioned as Hlsingr and the people as Helsinger in King Valdemar the Victorious's Liber Census Dani from 1231 (not to be confused with the Helsings of Hlsingland in Sweden). Place names show that the Helsinger may have had their main fort at Helsingborg and a fortified landing place at Helsingr, to control the ferry route across the strait. The particularly 19th-century tradition to explain toponymies, place names, with features of the landscape does not necessarily exclude the much older tradition of reading place names as eponymous.