![Mørkhøj Kirke 2007](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/M%C3%B8rkh%C3%B8j_Kirke_2007.jpg)
Mørkhøj is a suburb 10 km northwest of central
Copenhagen
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,
Denmark
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. Mørkhøj is part of
Gladsaxe Municipality
Gladsaxe Kommune is a municipality (Danish, ''Commune (subnational entity), kommune'') near Copenhagen in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand (Denmark), Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and ...
. The area is mixed with single-
family
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homes and
public housing
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and light industry.
The popular Danish children's TV-show
Bamses billedbog was recorded in the Gyngemosen area of Mørkhøj, at the time a forest area, which has since been turned in to an apartment complex. The chimney of the main character Bamses house can be found in the kindergarten
Børnehuset Solstrålen, which previously also had the door to the house, which has since been vandalised, and later stolen.
Mørkhøj has two primary schools, Enghavegård skole, and Mørkhøj skole, as well as a teacher's college, called
Blaagaard Seminarium
Geography of Copenhagen
Gladsaxe Municipality
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