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Uppsala

Uppsala is a university city in . While Uppsala sometimes stands in the shade of it maintains a sophisticated identity of its own. Compared to the Swedish capital, Uppsala is less frantic, with more of a small-town atmosphere, influenced by the student culture and academic traditions of Uppsala University.
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  • Type: City with 167,000 residents
  • Description: city in Uppsala County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Upsala”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Uppsala Cathedral and Linnaeus Garden.

Church
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is a cathedral located between the of Uppsala University and the river in the centre of Uppsala, Sweden. A church of the Church of Sweden, the national church, in the Lutheran tradition, is the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, the primate of Sweden.

Garden
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The Linnaean Garden or is the oldest of the botanical gardens belonging to Uppsala University, , and nowadays one of two satellite gardens of the larger University of Uppsala Botanic Garden, the other being the Linnaeus family's former summer home .

Museum
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is the oldest standing building at Uppsala University. It was built between 1622 and 1625, and was used as the main building of the university between 1778 and 1887. Since 1997, it has been used as the university's museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uppsala countryside and Kåbo.

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The is the part of Uppsala municipality, Uppsala kommun, outside metropolitan Uppsala itself. Some 60,000 people live in Uppsala's suburbs and surrounding villages.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in . It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre.

Uppsala

Latitude
59.8586° or 59° 51′ 31″ north
Longitude
17.6387° or 17° 38′ 20″ east
Population
167,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
QYX
United Nations Location Code
SE UPP
Open location code
9FFVVJ5Q+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25735371
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2666199
Wiki­data ID
Q25286
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Uppsala” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Uppsala”
  • Albanian: “Uppsala”
  • Amharic: “ኡፕሳላ”
  • Arabic: “أبسالة”
  • Arabic: “أُبْسَالَة”
  • Arabic: “أوبسالا”
  • Aragonese: “Uppsala”
  • Armenian: “Ուպսալա”
  • Armenian: “Ուփսալա”
  • Arpitan: “Uppsala”
  • Asturian: “Uppsala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uppsala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Upsala”
  • Balinese: “Uppsala”
  • Bashkir: “Уппсала”
  • Basque: “Uppsala”
  • Bavarian: “Uppsala”
  • Belarusian: “Упсала”
  • Bengali: “আফসালা”
  • Bosnian: “Uppsala”
  • Breton: “Uppsala”
  • Bulgarian: “Упсала”
  • Catalan: “Uppsala”
  • Cebuano: “Uppsala”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆپسالا”
  • Chechen: “Уппсала”
  • Chinese: “Uppsala”
  • Chinese: “乌普萨拉”
  • Chinese: “烏普薩拉”
  • Chuvash: “Уппсала”
  • Cornish: “Uppsala”
  • Corsican: “Uppsala”
  • Croatian: “Uppsala”
  • Czech: “Uppsala”
  • Danish: “Uppsala”
  • Danish: “Upsala”
  • Dutch: “Uppsala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوبسالا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة أوبسالا”
  • Esperanto: “Uppsala”
  • Esperanto: “Upsala”
  • Esperanto: “Upsalo”
  • Estonian: “Östra Aros”
  • Estonian: “Uppsala”
  • Estonian: “Upsala”
  • Faroese: “Uppsala”
  • Finnish: “Uppsala”
  • Finnish: “Upsala”
  • French: “Uppsala”
  • French: “Upsal”
  • Friulian: “Uppsala”
  • Galician: “Uppsala”
  • Georgian: “უპსალა”
  • Georgian: “უფსალა”
  • German: “Uppsala”
  • German: “Upsal”
  • Greek: “Ουπσάλα”
  • Greek: “Ουψάλα”
  • Gujarati: “અપસાલા”
  • Hebrew: “אופסאלה”
  • Hebrew: “אופסלה”
  • Hindi: “उपसाला”
  • Hindi: “उप्साला”
  • Hungarian: “Uppsala”
  • Icelandic: “Uppsala”
  • Icelandic: “Uppsalir”
  • Ido: “Uppsala”
  • Inari Sami: “Uppsala”
  • Indonesian: “Uppsala”
  • Interlingua: “Uppsala”
  • Interlingue: “Uppsala”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐆᑉᓴᓚ/uupsala”
  • Irish: “Uppsala”
  • Italian: “Uppsala”
  • Japanese: “ウプサラ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Uppsala”
  • Kannada: “ಉಪ್ಪಸಾಲ”
  • Kannada: “ಉಪ್ಪ್ಸಲ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Upsala”
  • Kashubian: “Uppsala”
  • Kazakh: “Уппсала”
  • Kazakh: “Упсала”
  • Kongo: “Uppsala”
  • Korean: “웁살라”
  • Kurdish: “Uppsala”
  • Ladin: “Uppsala”
  • Latin: “Upsalia”
  • Latvian: “Uppsala”
  • Latvian: “Upsala”
  • Latvian: “Upsāla”
  • Ligurian: “Uppsala”
  • Limburgan: “Uppsala”
  • Lithuanian: “Upsala”
  • Lombard: “Uppsala”
  • Low German: “Uppsala”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Uppsala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Uppsala”
  • Macedonian: “Упсала”
  • Malagasy: “Uppsala”
  • Malay: “Uppsala”
  • Maltese: “Uppsala”
  • Maori: “Uppsala”
  • Marathi: “उप्साला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Uppsala”
  • Minangkabau: “Uppsala”
  • Mongolian: “Өпсала”
  • Mongolian: “ᠥᠫᠰᠠᠯᠠ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوپصالا”
  • Narom: “Uppsala”
  • Neapolitan: “Uppsala”
  • Nepali: “उप्साला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Uppsala”
  • Northern Sami: “Uppsala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uppsala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uppsaliensar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uppsalienser”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uppsala”
  • Norwegian: “Uppsala”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Uppsala”
  • Ossetian: “Уппсалæ”
  • Ossetian: “Уппсала”
  • Persian: “آپسالا”
  • Persian: “اپسالا”
  • Persian: “اوپسالا”
  • Picard: “Uppsala”
  • Piemontese: “Uppsala”
  • Polish: “Uppsala”
  • Portuguese: “Uppsala”
  • Romanian: “Uppsala”
  • Romanian: “Upsala”
  • Romansh: “Uppsala”
  • Russian: “Убсала” (historical)
  • Russian: “Уппсала”
  • Russian: “Упсала” (historical)
  • Russian: “Упфала” (historical)
  • Rusyn: “Уппсала”
  • Sardinian: “Uppsala”
  • Scots: “Uppsala”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Uppsala”
  • Serbian: “Uppsala”
  • Serbian: “Upsala”
  • Serbian: “Упсала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Uppsala”
  • Sicilian: “Uppsala”
  • Silesian: “Uppsala”
  • Sindhi: “اپسالا”
  • Sinhala: “උප්සලා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Uppsala”
  • Slovak: “Uppsala”
  • Slovenian: “Uppsala”
  • Spanish: “Uppsala”
  • Spanish: “Upsala”
  • Sundanese: “Uppsala”
  • Swahili: “Uppsala”
  • Swedish: “Uppsala”
  • Swedish: “Upsala”
  • Swiss German: “Uppsala”
  • Tajik: “Уппсала”
  • Tamil: “உப்சாலா”
  • Tatar: “Уппсала”
  • Telugu: “ఉప్ప్సాల”
  • Thai: “Uppsala”
  • Thai: “Upsala”
  • Thai: “อุปซอลา”
  • Thai: “อุปซอล่า”
  • Thai: “อุพซอลา”
  • Turkish: “Uppsala”
  • Ukrainian: “Уппсала”
  • Ukrainian: “Упсала”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Uppsala”
  • Urdu: “اپسالا”
  • Urdu: “اپسالہ”
  • Urdu: “اوپسالا”
  • Uzbek: “Upsala”
  • Venetian: “Uppsala”
  • Veps: “Uppsal”
  • Vietnamese: “Uppsala”
  • Vlaams: “Uppsala”
  • Volapük: “Uppsala”
  • Võro: “Uppsala”
  • Walloon: “Uppsala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uppsala”
  • Welsh: “Uppsala”
  • Western Frisian: “Uppsala”
  • Western Panjabi: “اپسالا”
  • Wolof: “Uppsala”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌普萨拉”
  • Yiddish: “אופסאלא”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏普薩拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Uppsala”
  • Zulu: “Uppsala”
  • “Uppsala”

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