Backberg
Backberg is a locality situated in Sandviken Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 244 inhabitants in 2010.Places of Interest
Highlights include Rosenlöfs tryckerimuseum and Ovansjö Church.
Långängarna
Nature reserve
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Långängarna is a nature reserve, which is situated 4 km southeast of Backberg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Storvik and Sandviken.
Storvik
Village
Photo: Tanzania, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Storvik is a locality situated in Sandviken Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 2,165 inhabitants in 2010. Storvik was and still is an important railway junction for freight trains. Storvik is situated 6 km southwest of Backberg.
Sandviken
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Sandviken is a town, and a municipality, in Gävleborg County, in the Gästrikland province, 20 km west of Gävle, the county seat.
Backberg
- Type: Village with 242 residents
- Description: urban area in Sandviken Municipality, Sweden
- Categories: urban area in Sweden, minor locality in Sweden, and locality
- Location: Sandviken Municipality, Gävleborg County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.61728° or 60° 37′ 2″ northLongitude
16.6155° or 16° 36′ 56″ eastPopulation
242Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)Open location code
9FGRJJ88+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 367863246OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2723973Wikidata ID
Q2314346
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Backberg” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Backberg”
- Chinese: “Backberg”
- Danish: “Backberg”
- Dutch: “Backberg”
- French: “Backberg”
- German: “Backberg”
- Irish: “Backberg”
- Italian: “Backberg”
- Ladin: “Backberg”
- Low German: “Backberg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Backberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Backberg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Backberg”
- Norwegian: “Backberg”
- Persian: “باکبرگ”
- Polish: “Backberg”
- Romanian: “Backberg”
- Slovenian: “Backberg”
- Spanish: “Backberg”
- Swedish: “Backberg”
- Swedish: “S7086”
- Turkish: “Backberg”
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