Alvesta
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sendelbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alvesta railway station and Alvesta järnvägsstation.
Alvesta railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nastoshka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alvesta railway station is a railway station in Alvesta, Kronoberg County. The station was inaugurated in 1909 and is one of the main railway transit stations in Sweden, binding together the Southern Main Line between Malmö and Katrineholm with the Coast-to-Coast Line between Gothenburg and Kalmar/Karlskrona.
Alvesta järnvägsstation
Railway station
Photo: Mirej, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alvesta järnvägsstation is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lekaryd and Hjortsberga.
Lekaryd
Hamlet
Photo: Pieter Kuiper, CC0.
Lekaryd is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km north of Alvesta.
Hjortsberga
Village
Hjortsberga is a locality situated in Alvesta Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 245 inhabitants in 2010. Hjortsberga is situated 6 km west of Alvesta.
Öja
Village
Photo: Pieter Kuiper, Public domain.
Öja is a village, which is situated 7 km southeast of Alvesta.
Alvesta
- Type: Town with 8,020 residents
- Description: urban area in Alvesta Municipality, Sweden
- Categories: chef-lieu, urban area in Sweden, and locality
- Location: Alvesta Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.89976° or 56° 53′ 59″ northLongitude
14.55465° or 14° 33′ 17″ eastPopulation
8,020Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE ALVOpen location code
9F8PVHX3+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 88790094OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Alvesta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألفيستا”
- Belarusian: “Альвеста”
- Bulgarian: “Алвеста”
- Cebuano: “Alvesta”
- Chinese: “Alvesta”
- Chinese: “阿尔沃斯塔”
- Chinese: “阿爾沃斯塔”
- Danish: “Alvesta”
- Dutch: “Alvesta”
- Faroese: “Alvesta”
- Finnish: “Alvesta”
- French: “Alvesta”
- German: “Alvesta”
- Icelandic: “Alvesta”
- Irish: “Alvesta”
- Italian: “Alvesta”
- Japanese: “アルヴェスタ”
- Korean: “알베스타”
- Ladin: “Alvesta”
- Low German: “Alvesta”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alvesta”
- Northern Frisian: “Alvesta”
- Northern Sami: “Alvesta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alvesta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alvesta”
- Norwegian: “Alvesta”
- Persian: “الوستا”
- Polish: “Alvesta”
- Portuguese: “Alvesta”
- Romanian: “Alvesta”
- Russian: “Альвеста”
- Spanish: “Alvesta”
- Swedish: “Alvesta”
- Ukrainian: “Альвеста”
- Uzbek: “Alvesta”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alvesta”. Photo: Sendelbach, CC BY-SA 3.0.