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Blekinge

Blekinge is a province in southern , with approximately 155 000 inhabitants. Its borders are identical to Blekinge County, Blekinge län. Blekinge is known as the garden of Sweden, the area where Olofström Municipality borders Scania is also referred to as being the southernmost wilderness in Sweden.
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Essential Destinations

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, archaic spelling Carlskrona, is a city in Blekinge in southern Sweden. While the city has 37,000 inhabitants, around 60,000 live in the municipality, kommun.

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is a city in the Blekinge province of southern Sweden. attracts visitors to the salmon fisheries in "Mörrumsån", to the rocky coastline and the Hällaryd archipelago and to the wooded hinterland.

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is a locality and the seat of in Blekinge County, with 12,636 inhabitants in 2023. is regarded as the heart of "the Garden of Sweden", and in 2005 the park "Brunnsparken" in was voted Sweden's most beautiful park.

Destinations to Discover

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is a small town in Blekinge with roots in the Danish Middle Ages. With its 8,800 inhabitants, includes Listerlandet, a peninsula with several charming fishing villages, e.g, Hällevik, Hörvik and Djupekås.

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, Blekinge skärgård, is in Blekinge, .

Blekinge

Latitude of center
56.3333° or 56° 20′ north
Longitude of center
15.3333° or 15° 20′ east
Population
158,000
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2721357
Wiki­data ID
Q102377
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Blekinge” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “qarku i Blekinges”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بليكينج”
  • Aragonese: “Condau de Blekinge”
  • Armenian: “Բլեքինգե”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Blekinge”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blekinqe leni”
  • Balinese: “County Blekinge”
  • Basque: “Blekingeko konderria”
  • Belarusian: “Блекінге”
  • Belarusian: “Блекінгэ (лен)”
  • Belarusian: “Блекінгэ”
  • Belarusian: “лен Блекінгэ”
  • Bengali: “ব্লেকিঞ্জে কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Blekinge län”
  • Bosnian: “Kotar Blekinge”
  • Bosnian: “Okrug Blekinge”
  • Bulgarian: “Блекинге”
  • Bulgarian: “провинция Блекинге”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Blekinge”
  • Cebuano: “Blekinge län”
  • Chinese: “Blekinge Koān”
  • Chinese: “布莱金厄省”
  • Chinese: “布萊金厄省”
  • Chuvash: “Блекинге ленĕ”
  • Chuvash: “Лен Блекинге”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Blekinge”
  • Croatian: “Blekinge län”
  • Croatian: “Županija Blekinge”
  • Czech: “Blekinge län”
  • Danish: “Blekinge län”
  • Dutch: “Blekinge lan”
  • Dutch: “Blekinge län”
  • Dutch: “Blekinge”
  • Esperanto: “Blekinge län”
  • Estonian: “Blekinge lään”
  • Faroese: “Blekinge län”
  • Finnish: “Blekingen lääni”
  • French: “Blekinge Län”
  • French: “Blekinge”
  • French: “Comte de Blekinge”
  • French: “Comté de Blekinge”
  • French: “Département de Blekinge”
  • French: “Province de Blekinge”
  • Galician: “Blekinge”
  • Galician: “condado de Blekinge”
  • Galician: “Condado de Blekinge”
  • German: “Blekinge län”
  • German: “Blekinge”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία του Μπλέκινγκε”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Μπλεκίνιε”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία του Μπλέκινγκε”
  • Greek: “Νομός του Μπλέκινγκε”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લેકિંગ કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז בלקיניה”
  • Hindi: “ब्लकिंगे लैन”
  • Hindi: “ब्लेकिंगे काउंटी”
  • Hungarian: “Blekinge megye”
  • Icelandic: “Blekinge län”
  • Ido: “Komtio Blekinge”
  • Indonesian: “Blekinge lan”
  • Indonesian: “Blekinge län”
  • Indonesian: “Blekinge”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Blekinge”
  • Irish: “Blekinge län”
  • Italian: “Blekinge”
  • Italian: “contea di Blekinge”
  • Italian: “Contea di Blekinge”
  • Japanese: “ブレーキンゲ県”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೇಕಿಂಗ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Korean: “블레킹에주”
  • Kotava: “SverigaBlekingeWinka”
  • Kurdish: “Blekinge län”
  • Kurdish: “Blekinge”
  • Kurdish: “بلەکنگە لäن”
  • Ladin: “Contea de Blekinge”
  • Latin: “Blekingia”
  • Latin: “Blekingiae Comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Blēkinges lēne”
  • Latvian: “Blēkinges lēnis”
  • Limburgan: “Blekinge län”
  • Lithuanian: “Blekingė”
  • Lithuanian: “Blekingės lenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Blekingės lėnas”
  • Lombard: “contea de Blekinge”
  • Lombard: “Contea de Blekinge”
  • Low German: “Lehn Blekinge”
  • Macedonian: “Блекинге”
  • Macedonian: “Округ Блекинге”
  • Malay: “Daerah Blekinge”
  • Maltese: “Kontea ta‘ Blekinge”
  • Marathi: “ब्लेकींग काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “وسترا گوتلاند اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Blekinge Kōan”
  • Mingrelian: “ბლეკინგე (ლენი)”
  • Mingrelian: “ბლეკინგე”
  • Northern Frisian: “Blekinge”
  • Northern Sami: “Blekinge leatna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Blekinge län”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blekinge län”
  • Norwegian: “Blekinge län”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Blecinga īeg”
  • Ossetian: “Блекинге (лен)”
  • Ossetian: “Блекинге”
  • Persian: “استان بلکینگه”
  • Persian: “شهرستان بلکینگه”
  • Polish: “Blekinge län”
  • Polish: “Blekinge”
  • Portuguese: “Blekinge”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Blekinge”
  • Romanian: “Blekinge län”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Blekinge”
  • Russian: “Блекинге”
  • Russian: “Лен Блекинге”
  • Rusyn: “Край Блекiнге”
  • Rusyn: “край Блекінге”
  • Scots: “Blekinge Coonty”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Blekinge län”
  • Serbian: “Blećinge”
  • Serbian: “Блекинге”
  • Serbian: “Блекиншки округ”
  • Serbian: “Блећинге”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Blekinge”
  • Sinhala: “බ්ලෙකින්ජේ ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Blekinge”
  • Slovenian: “Blekinge län”
  • Slovenian: “Blekinško okrožje”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Blekinge”
  • Spanish: “Blekinge lan”
  • Spanish: “Blekinge”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Blekinge”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Blekinge”
  • Swahili: “Blekinge län”
  • Swedish: “Blekinge län”
  • Swedish: “Blekinge”
  • Swedish: “Blekinges län”
  • Swedish: “SE-K”
  • Tamil: “ப்ளேக்கிங்க கவுண்டி”
  • Telugu: “బ్లెకింగ్ కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “เทศมณฑลเบลียกิงเงอ”
  • Turkish: “Blekinge ili”
  • Turkish: “Blekinge lan”
  • Turkish: “Blekinge län”
  • Turkish: “Blekinge”
  • Ukrainian: “Блекінге”
  • Ukrainian: “Блекінґе”
  • Ukrainian: “лен Блекінге”
  • Urdu: “بلیکینے کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “Blekinge”
  • Vietnamese: “Blekinge”
  • Vietnamese: “hạt Blekinge”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạt Blekinge”
  • Volapük: “Blekingiän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Blekinge”
  • Welsh: “Sir Blekinge”
  • Western Frisian: “Blekinge län”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلیکنگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “布莱金厄省”

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