Vaxholm
The Stockholm archipelago, Stockholms skärgård or skärgården, is a group of thousands of islands in the Svealand region, extending east of Stockholm in the Baltic Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Szilas, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pålsund’s Artillery Battery and Edö Tallholme.
Pålsund’s Artillery Battery
Fort
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pålsund’s Artillery Battery is a fort.
Edholma
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Edholma is an island in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden. It is situated to the north of the island of Vaxön, to the south of the island of Resarö, to the east of the island of Kullö, and to the west of the Kodjupet strait.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Svinninge and Österskär.
Svinninge
Village
Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 3.0.
Svinninge is a locality situated in Österåker Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 1,636 inhabitants in 2010. Svinninge is situated 6 km northwest of Vaxholm.
Österskär
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Österskär is the eastern part of Åkersberga, Österåker Municipality in Sweden. It hosts the terminal station of the Stockholm suburban railway Roslagsbanan. Österskär is situated 6 km north of Vaxholm.
Kummelnäs
Suburb
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kummelnäs is a locality situated on the island of Värmdö in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago. From an administrative perspective, it is located in Nacka Municipality and Stockholm County, and has 3,848 inhabitants as of 2010. Kummelnäs is situated 7 km southwest of Vaxholm.
Vaxholm
- Type: Town with 4,860 residents
- Description: city and urban area in Vaxholm Municipality in Sweden’s Stockholm archipelago
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.40406° or 59° 24′ 15″ northLongitude
18.33133° or 18° 19′ 53″ eastPopulation
4,860Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE VXHOpen location code
9FFWC83J+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 80275734OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Vaxholm” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vaxholm”
- Arabic: “فاكسهولم”
- Armenian: “Վաքսհոլմ”
- Basque: “Vaxholm”
- Belarusian: “Ваксхальм”
- Bulgarian: “Ваксхолм”
- Catalan: “Vaxholm”
- Cebuano: “Vaxholm (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Vaxholm”
- Chinese: “Vaxholm”
- Chinese: “瓦克斯霍爾姆”
- Croatian: “Vaxholm”
- Danish: “Vaxholm”
- Dutch: “Vaxholm”
- Estonian: “Vaxholm”
- Estonian: “Waxholm”
- Faroese: “Vaxholm”
- Finnish: “Vaxholm”
- French: “Vaxholm”
- German: “Vaxholm”
- German: “Waxholm”
- Hebrew: “ווקסהולם,”
- Hungarian: “Vaxholm”
- Icelandic: “Vaxholm”
- Ido: “Vaxholm”
- Indonesian: “Vaxholm”
- Irish: “Vaxholm”
- Italian: “Vaxholm”
- Japanese: “ヴァックスホルム島”
- Ladin: “Vaxholm”
- Lithuanian: “Vaksholmas”
- Lithuanian: “Vaxolm”
- Macedonian: “Ваксхолм”
- Malay: “Vaxholm”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vaxholm”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaxholm”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waxholm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vaxholm”
- Norwegian: “Vaxholm”
- Persian: “وکسهلم”
- Polish: “Vaxholm”
- Portuguese: “Vaxholm”
- Romanian: “Vaxholm”
- Russian: “Ваксхольм”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaxholm”
- Silesian: “Vaxholm”
- Spanish: “Vaxholm”
- Swedish: “Vaxholm”
- Swedish: “Waxholm”
- Turkish: “Vaxholm”
- Ukrainian: “Ваксгольм”
- Volapük: “Vaxholm”
- Welsh: “Vaxholm”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Vaxholm”. Photo: Szilas, Public domain.