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Sund

Sund is a municipality in mainland . Here you can find two of the archipelago's main sights, Kastelholm castle and the ruined fortification of Bomarsund.
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Photo: Håkan Skogsjö, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kastelholm Castle and Sund Church.

Castle
Photo: Mona-Mia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a medieval castle built by the Swedes in the late 14th century. It is located near Road 2 in the municipality of Sund in , , about 25 kilometres northeast of , overlooking a fjord near the village of Kastelholm.

Church
Photo: Annapannar, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Museum
Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltvik and Haraldsby.

Photo: Annapannar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in the northeastern part of mainland and is the largest municipality in the province by land area. Out of 1,800 residents who live in the municipality year-round about 91 % speak Swedish as their mother tongue.

Village
Photo: Grigorius m, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 6 km west of Sund.

Sund

Latitude
60.253° or 60° 15′ 11″ north
Longitude
20.1199° or 20° 7′ 12″ east
Population
995
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
9GG27439+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10996665281
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
635817
Wiki­data ID
Q176201
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Sund” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sund”
  • Arabic: “بلدية سند”
  • Armenian: “Սունդ”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Sund”
  • Asturian: “Sund (conceyu de Finlandia)”
  • Asturian: “Sund”
  • Basque: “Sund”
  • Bengali: “সাউন্ড”
  • Cebuano: “Sund”
  • Chinese: “松德”
  • Czech: “Sund”
  • Danish: “Sund kommune”
  • Danish: “Sund”
  • Dutch: “Sund”
  • Esperanto: “Sund”
  • Estonian: “Sundi vald”
  • Faroese: “Sund”
  • Finnish: “Sund”
  • Finnish: “Sundin Kunta”
  • French: “Sund”
  • Galician: “Sund, Åland”
  • Galician: “Sund”
  • German: “Sund”
  • Greek: “Σούντ”
  • Gujarati: “સુંદ”
  • Hebrew: “סונד”
  • Hindi: “सुंड, औलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Sund”
  • Inari Sami: “Sund”
  • Indonesian: “Sund”
  • Irish: “Sund”
  • Italian: “Sund”
  • Japanese: “スンド”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಂದರಿ”
  • Korean: “선드”
  • Latvian: “Sunda”
  • Lithuanian: “Sundas‘”
  • Lombard: “Sund (Finlandia)”
  • Lombard: “Sund”
  • Low German: “Sund”
  • Malay: “Sund”
  • Marathi: “सुंद”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sund”
  • Norwegian: “Sund”
  • Persian: “سوند، جزایر الند”
  • Polish: “Sund”
  • Portuguese: “Sund”
  • Romanian: “Sund, Åland”
  • Romanian: “Sund”
  • Russian: “Сунд”
  • Scots: “Sund”
  • Sinhala: “සන්ඩ්”
  • Slovenian: “Sund”
  • Spanish: “Sund”
  • Swedish: “Sund, Åland”
  • Swedish: “Sund”
  • Swedish: “Sunds Kommun”
  • Tamil: “சுண்ட”
  • Telugu: “సుండ్”
  • Thai: “ซันด์”
  • Turkish: “Sund”
  • Ukrainian: “Сунд (комуна)”
  • Ukrainian: “Сунд”
  • Ukrainian: “Сунди (комуна)”
  • Urdu: “سوند”
  • Vietnamese: “Sund, Åland”
  • Vietnamese: “Sund”
  • “Sund”

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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 “Sund”. Photo: Håkan Skogsjö, CC BY-SA 4.0.