Gemla
Gemla is a locality situated in Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 1,342 inhabitants in 2010. Gemla is known for the late poet and writer, Pär Lagerkvist, whose childhood memories of Gemla are vividly described in the novel autobiography Gäst hos verkligheten.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Öja Church.
Öja Church
Church
Photo: Bernt Fransson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Öja Church is situated 3 km southwest of Gemla.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Öja and Alvesta.
Öja
Village
Photo: Pieter Kuiper, Public domain.
Öja is a village, which is situated 2½ km southwest of Gemla.
Alvesta
Town
Photo: Sendelbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alvesta is a locality and the seat of Alvesta Municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 8,017 inhabitants in the urban area in 2010. Alvesta is an important railway junction, joining the Stockholm–Malmö–Copenhagen railway with the Gothenburg–Kalmar/Karlskrona railway. Alvesta is situated 7 km northwest of Gemla.
Lekaryd
Hamlet
Photo: Pieter Kuiper, CC0.
Lekaryd is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km northwest of Gemla.
Gemla
- Type: Village with 1,460 residents
- Description: urban area in Växjö Municipality, Sweden
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Öja socken, Öja, Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.87004° or 56° 52′ 12″ northLongitude
14.6489° or 14° 38′ 56″ eastPopulation
1,460Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE GMLOpen location code
9F8PVJCX+2HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1758991338OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Gemla” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Gemla”
- Cebuano: “Gemla”
- Chinese: “Gemla”
- Danish: “Gemla”
- Dutch: “Gemla”
- Finnish: “Gemla”
- French: “Gemla”
- German: “Gemla”
- Irish: “Gemla”
- Italian: “Gemla”
- Ladin: “Gemla”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gemla”
- Northern Sami: “Gemla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gemla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gemla”
- Norwegian: “Gemla”
- Polish: “Gemla”
- Spanish: “Gemla”
- Swedish: “Gemla”
- Turkish: “Gemla”
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Notable Places Nearby
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