Kurön
Kurön is an island in Stockholm County, Svealand. Kurön is situated nearby to the hamlet Lindby, as well as near Mälby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: isle in lake Mälaren, Sweden
- Also known as: “Kuron”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Birka and Björkö.
Birka
Archaeological site
Birka, on the island of Björkö in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient.
Björkö
Island
Björkö is an island in Lake Mälaren in eastern-central Sweden. It is mostly famous for housing the excavation site Birka populated c. AD 750-975, together with Hovgården on Adelsö declared a World Heritage Site in 1993.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lindby and Mälby.
Lindby
Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lindby, Adelsö is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden.
Mälby
Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mälby is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden.
Hovgården
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hovgården is an archaeological site on the Lake Mälaren island of Adelsö in Ekerö Municipality in central-eastern Sweden. During the Viking Age, the centre of the prospering Mälaren Valley was the settlement Birka, founded in the mid-8th century and abandoned in the late 10th century and located on the island Björkö just south of Adelsö.
Kurön
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.32519° or 59° 19′ 31″ northLongitude
17.49205° or 17° 29′ 31″ eastElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
9FFV8FGR+3ROpenStreetMap ID
way 3410920OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Kurön” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kurön”
- Finnish: “Kurön”
- French: “Kurön”
- Norwegian: “Kurön”
- Norwegian: “Kurøn”
- Swedish: “Kurön”
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