Esbjerg
town in Denmark
Esbjerg is a city in Denmark, on the peninsula Jutland.
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It has about 82,000 inhabitants and is the 5th largest city of Denmark. The growing began in the 1860s, because Denmark lost its North Sea harbors to Prussia in the Danish-Prussian-Austrian war. The new harbor was built in Esbjerg.