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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 15 department stores
Best department stores in Copenhagen
The 10 most notable department stores in Copenhagen, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
ILLUM
Østergade 52
228 m from Gammel Strand Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.393, percentile 100 of 15
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2
Magasin du Nord
Kongens Nytorv 13
62 m from Kongens Nytorv Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.277, percentile 92.86 of 15
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3
Magasin Mad & Vin
Kongens Nytorv 13
21 m from Kongens Nytorv Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.233, percentile 85.71 of 15
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4
Completvvs.dk
NYBROVEJ 91
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.159, percentile 78.57 of 15
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5
Censuum Copenhagen
NØRRE FARIMAGSGADE 47
297 m from Nørreport Station, metro
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.057, percentile 71.43 of 15
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6
Magasin
ARNE JACOBSENS ALLÉ 12
313 m from Ørestad Station, metro
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.926, percentile 64.29 of 15
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7
Primo Safety
MIMERSGADE 112
192 m from Nørrebro station, rail
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.817, percentile 57.14 of 15
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8
Magasin Flowers
Kongens Nytorv 13
21 m from Kongens Nytorv Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.767, percentile 50 of 15
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9
Censuum
Lyngby Storcenter 1
158 m from Lyngby Local Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.597, percentile 42.86 of 15
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10
Lyngby Magasin
257 m from Lyngby station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has no website, phone or address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.571, percentile 35.71 of 15
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).