Sweden
Svealand
Uppsala County

Älvkarleby Municipality

Älvkarleby Municipality is a municipality in in east central . Its seat is located in the town of . The municipality is one of few in the country which has not been amalgamated since it was created out of a parish when the first local government acts of Sweden were implemented in 1863.
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  • Type: Municipality with 9,550 residents
  • Description: municipality in Uppsala County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “0319”, “AElvkarleby Kommun”, and “Älvkarleby (Sweden)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Älvkarleby Hydroelectric Power Station and Älvkarleby Church.

Power station
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Älvkarleby Hydroelectric Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant with 5 Francis turbines at , . It was built in 1911. From 1988 to 1991 a new power plant with a single Francis turbine was added, increasing its generation power from 70 MW to 126 MW.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Älvkarleby and Skutskär.

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is a town and municipality at the northern edge of , where Dalälven reaches the Baltic Sea, between and .

Town
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is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Älvkarleby Municipality in , with 6,075 inhabitants in 2010. According to the census of 2000 6,003 people lived in , most of them in Älvkarleby Municipality, but a minor part in in .

Älvkarleby Municipality

Latitude
60.5833° or 60° 35′ north
Longitude
17.4167° or 17° 25′ east
Population
9,550
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
9FGVHCM8+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302269576
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2726284
Wiki­data ID
Q59858
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Älvkarleby Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Älvkarleby kommun”
  • Asturian: “Älvkarleby”
  • Asturian: “conceyu d’Älvkarleby (Suecia)”
  • Basque: “Älvkarleby udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Эльвкарлебю”
  • Bulgarian: “Елвкарлебю”
  • Cebuano: “Älvkarleby Kommun”
  • Chinese: “Älvkarleby Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “艾尔夫卡勒比市镇”
  • Czech: “Älvkarleby”
  • Danish: “Älvkarleby kommun”
  • Danish: “Älvkarleby Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Älvkarleby”
  • Esperanto: “Älvkarleby kommun”
  • Esperanto: “Älvkarleby”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Älvkarleby”
  • Estonian: “Älvkarleby vald”
  • Faroese: “Älvkarleby kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Älvkarlebyn kunta”
  • Finnish: “Älvkarlebyn Kunta”
  • French: “Älvkarleby”
  • Galician: “concello de Älvkarleby”
  • Galician: “Concello de Älvkarleby”
  • German: “Älvkarleby (Sweden)”
  • German: “Älvkarleby”
  • Hungarian: “Älvkarleby község”
  • Italian: “Älvkarleby”
  • Italian: “Municipalità di Älvkarleby”
  • Korean: “엘브칼레뷔시”
  • Ladin: “Älvkarleby”
  • Limburgan: “Älvkarleby”
  • Lithuanian: “Elvkarlebis”
  • Lombard: “Älvkarleby”
  • Low German: “Kommun Älvkarleby”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Älvkarleby Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Älvkarleby (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Älvkarleby”
  • Northern Sami: “Älvkarleby gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ælvkarleby”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Älvkarleby kommun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Älvkarleby kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Älvkarleby kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Älvkarleby kommune”
  • Persian: “بخش الوکارلبی”
  • Polish: “Gmina Alvkarleby”
  • Polish: “Gmina Älvkarleby”
  • Portuguese: “Älvkarleby”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Älvkarleby”
  • Russian: “Эльвкарлебю”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Älvkarleby”
  • Slovenian: “Älvkarleby kommun”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Älvkarleby”
  • Spanish: “Älvkarleby”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Älvkarleby”
  • Swedish: “Älvkarleby kommun”
  • Swedish: “Älvkarleby”
  • Swedish: “Älvkarlebys kommun”
  • Turkish: “Älvkarleby”
  • Ukrainian: “Ельвкарлебю (комуна)”
  • Ukrainian: “Ельвкарлебю”
  • Vietnamese: “Älvkarleby”

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