Ekerö
Ekerö is a freshwater archipelago in lake Mälaren, which forms a municipality in Stockholm County. Ekerö 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 10,900 residents
- Description: urban area in Ekerö Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Ekeroe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ekebyhov Castle and Wallenberg-mausoleum.
Ekebyhov Castle
Manor estate
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ekebyhov Castle is a former manor in Ekerö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. The facility has been owned by Ekerö municipality since 1980 and has been the site of Ekebyhovs Äppelgenbank since 1998.
Wallenberg-mausoleum
Cemetery
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wallenberg-mausoleum is a cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parksidan and Älvnäs.
Parksidan
Village
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Parksidan is a locality situated in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, with 494 inhabitants in 2010.
Älvnäs
Village
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Älvnäs is a locality situated in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, with 601 inhabitants in 2010.
Solsidan
Village
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Solsidan is a locality in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It had 349 inhabitants in 2010.
Ekerö
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.2905° or 59° 17′ 26″ northLongitude
17.8131° or 17° 48′ 47″ eastPopulation
10,900Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE EKEOpen location code
9FFV7RR7+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 56520072OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Turkish—“Ekerö” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ekerö”
- Asturian: “Ekerö”
- Bavarian: “Ekerö”
- Bulgarian: “Екерьо”
- Catalan: “Ekerö”
- Cebuano: “Ekerö (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Ekerö”
- Chinese: “Ekerö”
- Chinese: “埃克勒”
- Danish: “Ekerö”
- Dutch: “Ekerö”
- Faroese: “Ekerö”
- Finnish: “Ekerö”
- French: “Ekerö”
- German: “Ekerö”
- Hebrew: “אקרה”
- Hungarian: “Ekerö”
- Icelandic: “Ekerö”
- Ido: “Ekerö”
- Irish: “Ekerö”
- Italian: “Ekerö”
- Korean: “에케뢰”
- Ladin: “Ekerö”
- Low German: “Ekerö”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ekerö”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ekerö”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ekerö”
- Norwegian: “Ekerö”
- Norwegian: “Ekerø”
- Persian: “اکرو”
- Polish: “Ekerö”
- Portuguese: “Ekerö”
- Romanian: “Ekerö”
- Russian: “Экерё”
- Serbian: “Екере”
- Slovenian: “Ekerö”
- Spanish: “Ekerö”
- Swahili: “Ekerö”
- Swedish: “Ekerö”
- Swedish: “Träkvista”
- Turkish: “Ekerö”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Ekerö”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.