Sweden
Svealand
Stockholm County

Ekerö Municipality

Ekerö Municipality is a municipality in the province of in in east central Sweden. The name derives from the name of the main island within the municipality whose name is Ekerön, and literally means "Oak Island".
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  • Type: Municipality with 26,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “0125”, “Ekerö kommun”, and “Ekeroe Kommun”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birka and Björkö.

Archaeological site
, on the island of Björkö in present-day , was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient.

Island
Photo: powi, CC BY 2.0.
is an in in eastern-central . It is mostly famous for housing the excavation site populated c. AD 750-975, together with on declared a World Heritage Site in 1993.

Nature reserve
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hovgården and Ekeby.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an archaeological site on the island of in Ekerö Municipality in central-eastern . During the Viking Age, the centre of the prospering Mälaren Valley was the settlement , founded in the mid-8th century and abandoned in the late 10th century and located on the island Björkö just south of Adelsö.

Village
, Munsö socken is a village in Ekerö Municipality, , southeastern .

Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, Adelsö is a village in Ekerö Municipality, , southeastern .

Ekerö Municipality

Latitude
59.3333° or 59° 20′ north
Longitude
17.6° or 17° 36′ east
Population
26,300
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
9FFV8HMX+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302269734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2716579
Wiki­data ID
Q492614
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Ekerö Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Էկերյո”
  • Asturian: “conceyu d’Ekerö (Suecia)”
  • Asturian: “Ekerö kommun”
  • Asturian: “Ekerö”
  • Basque: “Ekerö udalerria”
  • Bavarian: “Ekerö”
  • Belarusian: “грамада Экерэ”
  • Belarusian: “Екерэ (камуна, лен Стакгольм)”
  • Belarusian: “Екерэ”
  • Belarusian: “камуна Екерэ”
  • Belarusian: “камуна Экерэ”
  • Belarusian: “Экерэ (грамада)”
  • Belarusian: “Экерэ”
  • Bulgarian: “Екерьо”
  • Bulgarian: “община Екерьо”
  • Catalan: “municipi de Ekerö”
  • Cebuano: “Ekerö Kommun”
  • Cebuano: “Ekerö komyun”
  • Chinese: “Ekerö Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “埃克勒市鎮”
  • Chinese: “埃克勒市镇”
  • Danish: “Ekerö kommun”
  • Danish: “Ekerø kommun”
  • Danish: “Ekerö Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Ekerö”
  • Dutch: “gemeente Ekerö”
  • Esperanto: “Ekerö kommun”
  • Esperanto: “Ekerö”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Ekerö”
  • Estonian: “Ekerö vald”
  • Faroese: “Ekerö kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Ekerön kunta”
  • French: “Commune d’Ekero”
  • French: “Commune d’Ekerö”
  • French: “commune de Ekerö”
  • French: “Commune de Ekerö”
  • French: “Ekerö”
  • Galician: “concello de Ekerö”
  • Galician: “Concello de Ekerö”
  • German: “Ekerö”
  • German: “Gemeinde Ekerö”
  • Greek: “δήμος της Εκεροις”
  • Hebrew: “אקרה”
  • Hungarian: “Ekerö község”
  • Icelandic: “Ekerö sveitarfélag”
  • Italian: “comune di Ekerö”
  • Italian: “Ekerö”
  • Italian: “Municipalità di Ekerö”
  • Japanese: “エーケレー”
  • Japanese: “エーケレー市”
  • Japanese: “エーケレー自治体”
  • Korean: “에케뢰”
  • Korean: “에케뢰시”
  • Ladin: “Ekerö”
  • Latvian: “Ekerö pašvaldība”
  • Limburgan: “Ekerö”
  • Lithuanian: “Ekeris savivaldybė”
  • Lombard: “Ekerö”
  • Low German: “Kommun Ekerö”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ekerö Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ekerö (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ekerö”
  • Northern Sami: “Ekerö gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ekerö kommun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ekerö kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ekerö kommun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ekerö kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Ekerö Kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Ekerø Kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Ekerö kommune”
  • Persian: “بخش ایکرا”
  • Polish: “Gmina Ekero”
  • Polish: “gmina Ekerö”
  • Polish: “Gmina Ekerö”
  • Portuguese: “comuna da Ekerö”
  • Portuguese: “Ekerö”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Ekerö”
  • Russian: “коммуна Экерё”
  • Russian: “Экерё”
  • Slovenian: “Ekerö kommun”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Ekerö”
  • Spanish: “municipio de Ekerö”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Ekerö”
  • Swedish: “Ekerö kommun”
  • Swedish: “Ekerö”
  • Swedish: “Ekerös kommun”
  • Turkish: “Ekerö belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Ekerö”
  • Ukrainian: “Екере (комуна, лен Стокгольм)”
  • Ukrainian: “Екере”
  • Ukrainian: “комуна Екере”
  • Vietnamese: “đô thị Ekerö”
  • Vietnamese: “Ekerö”

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