Svealand
Stockholm County
Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm

Stockholm is 's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within . The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Södermalm and Norrmalm.

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is the southern borough of central Stockholm, consisting of the island of proper, two smaller islands connected to it from the west, as well as the neighbourhood of Hammarby Sjöstad on the opposite bank of the Hammarby Sjö in the east, which is a redeveloped former industrial area that was transformed into a model sustainable residential community.

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, also known as City, is the central borough of Stockholm, bordering to to the east at Birger Jarlsgatan, the Old Town to the south, to the south-west, and Vasastan north-west of Tegnérgatan.

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is a suburban island east of Stockholm in Sweden, at the innermost part of the . With 50,000 inhabitants and a long coastline, it is known for the Millesgården sculpture museum, the annual cross-country race Lidingöloppet, and a cluster of conference hotels.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Gamla stan and Djurgården.

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pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in Stockholm, containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

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, more properly Södra , is a park island in the southern borough in Stockholm. The island makes up much of the National City Park, and contains many museums and leisure venues, such as Skansen, the Vasa Museum and ABBA The Museum.

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is a borough in north-eastern Stockholm, bordering and Vasastan at Birger Jarlsgatan, one of Stockholm's longest streets. The core of consists of 19th century city-blocks, combined with vibrant tree-lined boulevards and upmarket shopping.

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Vasastan is a neighbourhood in north-central Stockholm, making up the northern part of the borough. It borders to the east at Birger Jarlsgatan, to the south-west.

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

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is an urban island which makes up the western part of Stockholm's inner city, with the Stockholm City Hall, Stockholms stadshus, as a dominant landmark.

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refers to the part of Stockholm municipality that lies south of . The term sometimes refers to all southern suburbs, including Haninge, Huddinge, Botkyrka and others; these are however covered in the article.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Nationalmuseum and National Library of Sweden.

Museum
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is the national gallery of fine arts of Sweden, located on the peninsula in central Stockholm. The museum's operations stretch far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, including the National Portrait Gallery collection at , the Gustavsberg porcelain museum, several castle collections and the Swedish Institute in Paris.

Library
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The is 's national library. It collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish association published abroad.

Museum
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The is a maritime museum in Stockholm, . Located on the island of , the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Solna and Årsta.

Town
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is a town.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Town
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is the municipal seat of and part of Stockholm urban area in . The municipality's name harks back to a 16th-century industrial operation established by the Crown at farmstead where conditions for water mills are good.

Stockholm

Latitude
59.3251° or 59° 19′ 30″ north
Longitude
18.0711° or 18° 4′ 16″ east
Population
985,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
STO
United Nations Location Code
SE STO
Open location code
9FFW83GC+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25929985
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2673730
Wiki­data ID
Q1754
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Stockholm” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Стокҳольм”
  • Abkhazian: “Стоқҳольм”
  • Achinese: “Stockholm”
  • Afrikaans: “Stockholm”
  • Albanian: “Stokholmi”
  • Amharic: “ስቶኮልም”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ὁλμία”
  • Arabic: “ستوكهولم”
  • Aragonese: “Estocolmo”
  • Armenian: “Ստոկհոլմ”
  • Armenian: “Ստոքհոլմ”
  • Arpitan: “Estocolmo”
  • Arpitan: “Stockholm”
  • Asturian: “Estocolmo”
  • Asturian: “Estocolmu”
  • Avaric: “Стокголм”
  • Avaric: “Стокгьолм”
  • Aymara: “Stockholm”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stokholm”
  • Balinese: “Stockholm”
  • Bambara: “Stokolm”
  • Bashkir: “Стокгольм”
  • Basque: “Estokolmo”
  • Basque: “Stockholm”
  • Bavarian: “Stockholm”
  • Belarusian: “Стакгольм”
  • Bengali: “স্টকহলম”
  • Bengali: “স্টকহোম”
  • Betawi: “Stokholem”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्टॉकहोम”
  • Bislama: “Stockholm”
  • Bosnian: “Stockholm”
  • Bosnian: “Štokholm”
  • Breton: “Stockholm”
  • Bulgarian: “Стокхолм”
  • Burmese: “စတော့ဟုမ်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Estocolm”
  • Cebuano: “Estokolmo”
  • Cebuano: “Stockholm”
  • Central Bikol: “Stockholm”
  • Central Kurdish: “ستۆکھۆڵم”
  • Chavacano: “Estocolmo”
  • Chechen: “Стокгольм”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᏔᎧᎰᎻ”
  • Cheyenne: “Stockholm”
  • Chinese: “Stockholm”
  • Chinese: “斯德哥尔摩”
  • Chinese: “斯德哥爾摩”
  • Church Slavic: “Стоколмъ”
  • Chuvash: “Стокгольм”
  • Cornish: “Stockholm”
  • Corsican: “Stoccolma”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Stokholm”
  • Croatian: “Stockholm”
  • Czech: “Stockholm”
  • Danish: “Stockholm”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Stokholm”
  • Dotyali: “स्टकहोम”
  • Dutch: “Stockholm”
  • Eastern Mari: “Стокгольм”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ستوكهولم”
  • Erzya: “Стокгольм ош”
  • Esperanto: “Stokholmo”
  • Estonian: “Stockholm”
  • Ewe: “Stockholm”
  • Extremaduran: “Estocolmu”
  • Faroese: “Stockholm”
  • Faroese: “Stokkhólmur”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Stockholm”
  • Fijian: “Sitokomi”
  • Finnish: “Stockholm”
  • Finnish: “Tukholma”
  • French: “STHLM”
  • French: “Stockholm”
  • Gagauz: “Stockholm”
  • Galician: “Estocolmo”
  • Georgian: “სტოკჰოლმი”
  • German: “Stockholm”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Stockholm”
  • Gilaki: “استؤکؤلم”
  • Gilaki: “استؤکهؤلم”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐍄𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌼𐍃”
  • Greek: “Στοκχόλμη”
  • Guarani: “Estocolmo”
  • Guarani: “Etohom”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટોકહોમ”
  • Haitian: “Stokolm”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Stockholm”
  • Hausa: “Stockholm”
  • Hawaiian: “Kekokehome”
  • Hebrew: “סטוקהולם”
  • Hebrew: “שטוקהולם”
  • Hindi: “स्टॉकहोम”
  • Hungarian: “Stockholm”
  • Icelandic: “Stokkhólmur”
  • Ido: “Stockholm”
  • Igbo: “Stockholm”
  • Iloko: “Estokolmo”
  • Inari Sami: “Tukholma”
  • Indonesian: “Stockholm”
  • Interlingua: “Stockholm”
  • Interlingue: “Stockholm”
  • Inuktitut: “ᔅᑑᒃᓱᓪᒻ/stuukhulm”
  • Inuktitut: “ᔅᑑᒃᓱᓪᒻ”
  • Irish: “Stócólm”
  • Italian: “Stoccolma”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Stakuom”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Stockholm”
  • Japanese: “ストックホルム”
  • Japanese: “北欧のヴェネツィア”
  • Japanese: “士篤恒”
  • Japanese: “水の都”
  • Japanese: “須篤保留武”
  • Javanese: “Stockholm”
  • Kabardian: “Стокголм”
  • Kabiyè: “Stɔkhɔlm”
  • Kabyle: “Stukulm”
  • Kalaallisut: “Stockholm”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Stokxolm”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಾಕ್‍ಹೋಮ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಾಕ್ಹೋಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sthlm”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “STHLM”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Stockholm”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Stokgolm”
  • Karelian: “Tukholma”
  • Kashubian: “Sztokhòlm”
  • Kazakh: “Стокгольм қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Стокгольм”
  • Kirghiz: “Стокгольм”
  • Komering: “Stockholm”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Стёколна”
  • Komi: “Стокгольм”
  • Kongo: “Stockholm”
  • Korean: “스톡홀름”
  • Kotava: “Stockholm”
  • Kurdish: “Stockholm”
  • Kurdish: “Stokholm”
  • Ladin: “Stockholm”
  • Ladin: “Stockholma”
  • Ladino: “Estokolma”
  • Latgalian: “Stokholmys”
  • Latin: “Holmia”
  • Latin: “Stocholmia”
  • Latvian: “Stokholma”
  • Ligurian: “Stoccolma”
  • Limburgan: “Stockholm”
  • Lingala: “Stockholm”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Stockholm”
  • Literary Chinese: “斯德哥爾摩”
  • Lithuanian: “Stokholmas”
  • Livvi: “Stokgol’mu”
  • Lombard: “Stuculma”
  • Low German: “Stockholm”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Stockholm”
  • Lule Sami: “Stockhoalmma”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stockholm”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Stockholm”
  • Macedonian: “Стокхолм”
  • Maithili: “स्टकहोम”
  • Malagasy: “Stockholm”
  • Malay: “Stockholm”
  • Malayalam: “സ്റ്റോക്ക്‌ഹോം”
  • Maltese: “Stokkolma”
  • Manx: “Stockholm”
  • Maori: “Hitokahoma”
  • Maori: “Stockholm”
  • Maori: “Toko-omo”
  • Marathi: “स्टॉकहोम”
  • Mazanderani: “استکهلم”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Stockholm”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Stockholm”
  • Minangkabau: “Stockholm”
  • Mingrelian: “სტოკჰოლმი”
  • Moksha: “Стокольм”
  • Moksha: “Стокольма”
  • Mongolian: “Стокгольм”
  • Mongolian: “Стокхольм”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سطوكهولم”
  • Narom: “Stockholm”
  • Nauru: “Stockholm”
  • Navajo: “Tótabineʼadziihí”
  • Nepali: “स्टकहोम”
  • Newari: “स्तकहोम”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stockholm”
  • Northern Luri: “استکهلم”
  • Northern Sami: “Stockholbma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stockholm”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stockholm”
  • Norwegian: “Stockholm”
  • Novial: “Stockholm”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estocòlme”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܛܘܩܗܘܠܡ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stoccholm”
  • Ossetian: “Стокгольм”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਟਾਕਹੋਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Stockholm”
  • Persian: “استکهلم”
  • Picard: “Stockholm”
  • Piemontese: “Stocòlma”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Stockholm”
  • Polish: “Sztokholm”
  • Portuguese: “Estocolmo”
  • Pushto: “سټاکهولم”
  • Quechua: “Istukulmu”
  • Quechua: “Stockholm”
  • Romanian: “Stockholm”
  • Romansh: “Stockholm”
  • Russia Buriat: “Стокхольм”
  • Russia Buriat: “Стокһольм”
  • Russian: “Stockholm”
  • Russian: “Стокгольм”
  • Rusyn: “Штокголм”
  • Sakizaya: “S-te-ke-al-mo”
  • Samogitian: “Stuokhuolms”
  • Sango: “Stockholm”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱴᱚᱠᱦᱳᱢ”
  • Sardinian: “Istocolma”
  • Sardinian: “Stoccolma”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Stockholm”
  • Scots: “Stockholm”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Stockholm”
  • Serbian: “Стокхолм”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stockholm”
  • Shona: “Stockholm”
  • Sicilian: “Stoccolma”
  • Silesian: “Sztokholm”
  • Sindhi: “اسٽاڪ هوم”
  • Sindhi: “اسٽاڪهوم”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ටොක්හෝම්”
  • Slovak: “Štokholm”
  • Slovenian: “severne Benetke”
  • Slovenian: “skandinavske Benetke”
  • Slovenian: “Stockholm”
  • Somali: “Stockholm”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استکهلم”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایستوکهولم”
  • Southern Sami: “Stuehkie”
  • Southern Sotho: “Stockholm”
  • Spanish: “Estocolmo”
  • Spanish: “Sthlm”
  • Spanish: “STHLM”
  • Spanish: “Stockholm”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Stockholm”
  • Sundanese: “Stockholm”
  • Swahili: “Stockholm”
  • Swedish: “Nordens Venedig”
  • Swedish: “Sthlm”
  • Swedish: “Stockholm”
  • Swiss German: “Stockholm”
  • Tagalog: “Estokolmo”
  • Tagalog: “Stockholm”
  • Tahitian: “Stockolm”
  • Tajik: “Стокҳолм”
  • Talysh: “Stokholm”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டாக்ஹோம்”
  • Tatar: “Стокгольм”
  • Tatar: “Стокһолм”
  • Tatar: “Стокһольм”
  • Telugu: “స్టాక్‌హోమ్”
  • Tetum: “Estokolmu”
  • Thai: “สตอกโฮล์ม”
  • Thai: “สต็อกโฮล์ม”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ཏོག་ཧོ་ལིམ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ስቶክሆልም”
  • Tok Pisin: “Stockholm”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sitokiholimi”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Stokholmi”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Tokholmi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Stockholm”
  • Turkish: “Stockholm”
  • Turkish: “Stokolm”
  • Turkmen: “Stokgolm”
  • Twi: “Stockholm”
  • Udmurt: “Стокгольм”
  • Uighur: “Stokgolm”
  • Ukrainian: “Стокгольм”
  • Ume Sami: “Tjåsskasulla”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Stockholm”
  • Urdu: “اسٹاک ہوم”
  • Urdu: “سٹاکہوم”
  • Uzbek: “Stokgolm”
  • Venetian: “Stocolma”
  • Venetian: “Stocólma”
  • Veps: “Stokhol’m”
  • Veps: “Stokholm”
  • Vietnamese: “Stockholm”
  • Vlaams: “Stockholm”
  • Vlax Romani: “Stockholm”
  • Volapük: “Stockholm”
  • Võro: “Stokholm”
  • Walloon: “Stocom”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Estokolmo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Stockholm”
  • Welsh: “Stockholm”
  • Western Armenian: “Սթոքհոլմ”
  • Western Frisian: “Stockholm”
  • Western Frisian: “Stokholm”
  • Western Mari: “Стокгольм”
  • Western Panjabi: “سٹاکہوم”
  • Wolof: “Stokolm”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯德哥尔摩”
  • Yakut: “Стокhольм”
  • Yakut: “Стокһольм”
  • Yiddish: “שטאקהאלם”
  • Yoruba: “Stockholm”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯德哥爾摩”
  • Zeeuws: “Stockholm”
  • Zulu: “IStokholmu”
  • “Estocolmo”
  • “ma tomo Sokon”
  • “Stoccolme”
  • “Stockholm”
  • “Stokholm”
  • “Stucólma”
  • “Stuokhuolms”
  • “स्टॉकहोम”

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