Ekeby
Ekeby, Munsö socken is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. Ekeby has about 205 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 205 residents
- Description: village in Munsjö socken, Ekerö, Sweden
- Also known as: “Ekeby tomtområde” and “Ekeby, Munsö socken”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Lagoon and Uppland Runic Inscription 13.
Blue Lagoon
Lake
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Blue Lagoon or Husbygropen is an artificial lake just beside Mälaren in the island of Munsön in Ekerö municipality, Stockholm County. The lake is a decommissioned and finished gravel pit.
Uppland Runic Inscription 13
Runestone
Photo: Cattie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
This runestone, listed as U 13 in Rundata, crowns the barrow of Björn Ironside in Uppland, Sweden. The stone is a fragment; broken pieces of the stone lie next to it.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hovgården and Stav.
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. Hovgården is situated 4 km west of Ekeby.
Stav
Neighborhood
Stav is a smaller locality in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It has a population of 135. Stav is situated 4 km northeast of Ekeby.
Lindby
Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lindby, Adelsö is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. Lindby is situated 4½ km southwest of Ekeby.
Ekeby
- Categories: minor locality in Sweden, vacation area, urban area in Sweden, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.3625° or 59° 21′ 45″ northLongitude
17.59867° or 17° 35′ 55″ eastPopulation
205Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
9FFV9H6X+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 257383424OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2716662Wikidata ID
Q974643
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Ekeby” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Ekeby”
- Dutch: “Ekeby, Skå socken”
- Dutch: “Ekeby”
- French: “Ekeby”
- German: “Ekeby tomtområde”
- Irish: “Ekeby tomtområde”
- Irish: “Ekeby”
- Ladin: “Ekeby tomtområde”
- Low German: “Ekeby”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ekeby”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ekeby”
- Polish: “Ekeby (gmina Ekerö)”
- Polish: “Ekeby”
- Swedish: “Ekeby tomtområde”
- Swedish: “Ekeby”
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