Svealand
Stockholm County
Järfälla Municipality

Barkarby

Barkarby, also known as Barkarbystaden is an area in , , , and part of the contiguously built-up Stockholm urban area.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Chinese Pavilion and Drottningholm Palace Theatre.

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, located in the grounds of the park, is a Chinese-inspired royal pavilion originally built between 1753 and 1769. The pavilion is currently one of Sweden's Royal Palaces and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Theater building
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an opera house located at in , Sweden. It is one of the few 18th century theatres in Europe that is still used as a theatre with its original stage machinery.

Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ekerö and Västerort, Solna and Sundbyberg.

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is a freshwater archipelago in lake Mälaren, which forms a municipality in . is also the only Swedish municipality with two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Viking age settlement Birka, and Drottningholm Palace, which is the residence of the Royal family.

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Västerort is the western part of municipality, extending far from the inner city, nearly encircling the autonomous towns Solna and Sundbyberg, just north of the Vasastan and districts of inner .

Suburb
Photo: Kotoviski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 6 km east of Barkarby.

Barkarby

Latitude
59.3275° or 59° 19′ 39″ north
Longitude
17.8419° or 17° 50′ 31″ east
Population
11,200
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
Open location code
9FFV8RGR+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7473598172
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
8131947
Wiki­data ID
Q2218918
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Barkarby” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Barkarby”
  • Dutch: “Barkarby”
  • Finnish: “Barkarby”
  • French: “Barkarby”
  • German: “Barkarby”
  • Irish: “Barkarby”
  • Ladin: “Barkarby”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barkarby”
  • Russian: “Баркарбю”
  • Slovenian: “Barkarby”
  • Swedish: “Barkarby”

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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 “Barkarby”. Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.