Eckerö
Eckerö is a scattered village and an island, regarded as part of mainland Åland. It is the port for the Eckerö Line, the shortest crossing from Sweden.Photo: Vhnk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Inisheer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 941 residents
- Description: municipality of Åland, Finland
- Neighbors: Hammarland
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eckerö Mail and Customs House and Eckerö hall.
Eckerö Mail and Customs House
Museum
Photo: Godewind, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Eckerö Mail and Customs House is a historic building in Eckerö municipality in Åland, Finland. It was built in 1828 as the most western posthouse on the Finnish side of the old mail route connecting Swedish capital Stockholm and Finnish town Turku.
St Lawrence’s Church, Eckerö
Church
Photo: Puppe100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Lawrence's Church, located in Eckerö on the Åland Islands, is a medieval Lutheran stone church. The church represents a significant example of medieval ecclesiastical architecture in the Baltic region. St Lawrence’s Church, Eckerö is situated 3½ km southeast of Eckerö.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Storby and Berghamn.
Berghamn
Hamlet
Photo: Erik Wannee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Berghamn is the westernmost ferry harbour of the autonomous Finnish territory Åland, in the Archipelago Sea within the Baltic Sea. Berghamn is situated on the island of Eckerö.
Eckerö
- Categories: municipality of Finland and locality
- Location: Åland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.2239° or 60° 13′ 26″ northLongitude
19.5589° or 19° 33′ 32″ eastPopulation
941Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI ECKOpen location code
9FGX6HF5+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 11560044314OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Eckerö” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Eckerö”
- Amharic: “ኤከሮ”
- Arabic: “إكيرو”
- Arabic: “إيكيرو”
- Asturian: “conceyu d’Eckerö”
- Asturian: “Eckerö (conceyu de Finlandia)”
- Asturian: “Eckerö”
- Azerbaijani: “Eckeroe”
- Basque: “Eckerö”
- Bengali: “একেরো”
- Catalan: “Eckerö”
- Cebuano: “Eckerö”
- Chinese: “埃克勒”
- Danish: “Eckerö”
- Dutch: “Eckerö”
- Esperanto: “Eckerö”
- Estonian: “Eckerö vald”
- Faroese: “Eckerö”
- Finnish: “Eckerö”
- French: “Eckerö”
- Galician: “Eckerö”
- German: “Eckerö”
- Greek: “Εκέρο”
- Gujarati: “ઇક્કેરો”
- Hausa: “Eckeroe”
- Hebrew: “אקרו”
- Hindi: “एकेरो”
- Hungarian: “Eckerö”
- Inari Sami: “Eckerö”
- Indonesian: “Eckerö”
- Irish: “Eckerö”
- Italian: “Eckerö”
- Japanese: “エケロ”
- Japanese: “エッケルー”
- Japanese: “エッケロー”
- Javanese: “Eckeroe”
- Kannada: “ಎಕೆರೋ”
- Kazakh: “Эккерё”
- Kirghiz: “Эккерё”
- Korean: “에크로”
- Latvian: “Ekero”
- Limburgan: “Eckerö”
- Lithuanian: “Ekerijas”
- Lombard: “Eckerö”
- Macedonian: “Екере”
- Malay: “Eckerö”
- Malay: “Eckeroe”
- Marathi: “अक्करो”
- Northern Sami: “Eckerö”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eckerö”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eckerö”
- Norwegian: “Eckerö”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Eckerö”
- Oromo: “Eckeroe”
- Panjabi: “ਏਕੇਰੋ”
- Persian: “اکرو، فنلاند”
- Persian: “اکرو”
- Polish: “Eckerö”
- Portuguese: “Eckerö”
- Portuguese: “Eckeroe”
- Pushto: “اکرو”
- Romanian: “Eckerö”
- Russian: “Экерё”
- Russian: “Эккерё”
- Scots: “Eckerö”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eckerö”
- Sinhala: “එකෙරෝ”
- Skolt Sami: “Eckerö”
- Somali: “Eckeroe”
- Spanish: “Eckerö”
- Spanish: “Eckeroe”
- Swahili: “Eckeroe”
- Swedish: “Eckerö”
- Tajik: “Эккерё”
- Tamil: “ஏக்கரோ”
- Tatar: “Эккерё”
- Telugu: “ఎకెరో”
- Thai: “เอคเคโร”
- Turkish: “Eckerö”
- Ukrainian: “Екере”
- Ukrainian: “Екерьо”
- Urdu: “ایکرو”
- Urdu: “ایکرے”
- Urdu: “یکیرو”
- Uzbek: “Eckeroe”
- Vietnamese: “Eckerö”
- Welsh: “Eckerö”
- “Eckerö”
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