Saltsjön

Saltsjön is a bay of the Baltic Sea that extends from Stockholm archipelago to the inner city of . Its innermost part reaches the eastern shore of Gamla stan at Skeppsbrokajen.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: body of water in central Stockholm, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Saltsjon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Skansen and Waldemarsudde.

Theme park
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the oldest open-air museum and zoo in Sweden located on the island in , . It was opened on 11 October 1891 by Artur Hazelius to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era.

Museum
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Prince Eugene's is a museum located on in , . It was formerly the home of Prince Eugen, a Swedish prince, painter and art collector.

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is a Swedish palace pavilion located on , an island in central . It was built between 1823 and 1827 for King Charles XIV John, the first Bernadotte king of Sweden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kvarnholmen and Svindersvik.

Suburb
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is a peninsula on the western part of the , south-east of , . It is surrounded by the Saltsjön to the north and by the bay to the south.

Locality
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is a well-preserved 18th century country residence in , Sweden. lies just outside the city limits of .

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, more properly Södra , is a park island in the southern borough in . The island makes up much of the National City Park, and contains many museums and leisure venues, such as Skansen, the Vasa Museum and ABBA The Museum.

Saltsjön

Latitude
59.31979° or 59° 19′ 11″ north
Longitude
18.12889° or 18° 7′ 44″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
9FFW849H+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1305980185
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2680457
Wiki­data ID
Q4176307
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Venetian—“Saltsjön” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Saltsjön”
  • Catalan: “Saltsjön”
  • Cebuano: “Saltsjön (luuk)”
  • Cebuano: “Saltsjön”
  • Danish: “Saltsjön”
  • Danish: “Saltsjøn”
  • Estonian: “Saltsjön”
  • Finnish: “Saltsjön”
  • French: “Saltsjön”
  • German: “Saltsjön”
  • Irish: “Saltsjön”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saltsjön”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saltsjön”
  • Norwegian: “Saltsjön”
  • Norwegian: “Saltsjøn”
  • Portuguese: “Saltsjön”
  • Russian: “Сальтшён”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saltsjön”
  • Slovenian: “Saltsjön”
  • Swedish: “Saltsjön”
  • Ukrainian: “Сельтшен”
  • Venetian: “Saltsjön”

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