Uppsala County
Uppsala County, Uppsala län, is in eastern Svealand in middle Sweden, and has around 360,000 inhabitants. The county makes up most of the Uppland province; the south-eastern part belongs to Stockholm County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Uppsala
Uppsala is a university city in Sweden. While Uppsala sometimes stands in the shade of Stockholm 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.
Enköping
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Enköping is a city in western Uppland in Sweden with about 20,000 inhabitants, branding itself "Sweden's nearest city". It is the seat of Enköping municipality with about 40,000 inhabitants.
Håbo
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Håbo Municipality is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Bålsta. The municipality was formed in connection with the local government reform of 1952.
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Knivsta
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Knivsta Municipality is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Knivsta, with some 7,100 inhabitants.
Östhammar
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Östhammar is a municipality in eastern Uppsala County in Sweden. While the Östhammar town itself has a population of 4,500, the municipality has more than 20,000 permanent residents, and several more during summer.
Tierp
Tierp is a town in northern Uppsala County in Sweden with approximately 5,500 inhabitants, being the largest settlement between Uppsala and Gävle. Despite being a rather small town, Tierp serves as the center for the entire Tierp Municipality with approximately 20,000 people, explaining a relatively large number of restaurants and stores.
Heby
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Heby is a town, and the seat of Heby kommun, Heby municipality, with nearly 14,000 citizens. It makes up the northwestern corner of Uppsala County.
Uppsala countryside
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The Uppsala countryside is the part of Uppsala municipality, Uppsala kommun, outside metropolitan Uppsala itself. Some 60,000 people live in Uppsala's suburbs and surrounding villages.
Älvkarleby
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Älvkarleby is a town and municipality at the northern edge of Uppsala County, where Dalälven reaches the Baltic Sea, between Tierp and Gävle.
Uppsala County
- Type: county of Sweden with 405,000 residents
- Description: county (län) In Sweden
- Also known as: “SE121”, “Uppsala”, “Uppsala län”, and “Uppsala Län”
- Neighbors: Åland, Dalarna, Gävleborg County, and Stockholm County
- Location: Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Uppsala County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “qarku i Upsalës”
- Arabic: “محافظة اوبسالا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة أوبسالا”
- Aragonese: “Condau d’Uppsala”
- Armenian: “Ուփսալա”
- Asturian: “provincia d’Upsala”
- Asturian: “Provincia d’Upsala”
- Azerbaijani: “Uppsala dairəsi”
- Balinese: “County Uppsala”
- Basque: “Uppsalako konderria”
- Belarusian: “лен Упсала”
- Belarusian: “Упсала”
- Bengali: “আপসালা কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Kotar Uppsala”
- Bosnian: “Okrug Uppsala”
- Bosnian: “Uppsala län”
- Bulgarian: “провинция Упсала”
- Bulgarian: “Упсала”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Uppsala”
- Catalan: “Comtat d’Uppsala”
- Cebuano: “Uppsala (rehyon)”
- Cebuano: “Uppsala län”
- Cebuano: “Uppsala”
- Chinese: “Uppsala Koān”
- Chinese: “乌普萨拉省”
- Chinese: “烏普薩拉省”
- Cornish: “Konteth Uppsala”
- Croatian: “Uppsala län”
- Czech: “Uppsala”
- Danish: “Uppsala län”
- Danish: “Upsala Len”
- Dutch: “Uppsala lan”
- Dutch: “Uppsala län”
- Dutch: “Uppsala”
- Esperanto: “Uppsala län”
- Estonian: “Uppsala lään”
- Faroese: “Uppsala län”
- Finnish: “Uppsala län”
- Finnish: “Uppsalan lääni”
- Finnish: “Upsalan lääni”
- French: “Comte d’Uppsala”
- French: “Comté d’Uppsala”
- French: “Comté d´Uppsala”
- French: “Comté de Uppsala”
- French: “Département d’Uppsala”
- French: “Département d´Uppsala”
- French: “Uppsala”
- Galician: “condado de Uppsala”
- Galician: “Condado de Uppsala”
- Galician: “Uppland”
- German: “Uppsala län”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Ουψάλας”
- Greek: “Ουπσάλα”
- Gujarati: “ઉપ્સલા કાઉન્ટી”
- Hebrew: “אופסלה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אופסלה”
- Hindi: “उप्साला काउंटी”
- Hindi: “उप्साला लैन”
- Hungarian: “Uppsala megye”
- Icelandic: “Uppsala län”
- Ido: “Komtio Uppsala”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Uppsala”
- Indonesian: “Uppsala lan”
- Indonesian: “Uppsala län”
- Irish: “Uppsala län”
- Italian: “contea di Uppsala”
- Italian: “Contea di Uppsala”
- Japanese: “ウプサラ県”
- Kannada: “ಉಪ್ಸಾಲಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “웁살라주”
- Kurdish: “Uppsala (län)”
- Kurdish: “Uppsala”
- Ladin: “Contea de Uppsala”
- Latin: “Upsaliae Comitatus”
- Latvian: “Upsalas lēne”
- Latvian: “Upsālas lēne”
- Latvian: “Upsalas lēnis”
- Limburgan: “Uppsala län”
- Lithuanian: “Upsalos lenas”
- Lithuanian: “Upsalos lėnas”
- Lithuanian: “Upsalos regionas”
- Lombard: “contea de Uppsala”
- Lombard: “Contea de Uppsala”
- Low German: “Lehn Uppsala”
- Macedonian: “Округ Упсала”
- Macedonian: “Упсала”
- Malay: “Daerah Uppsala”
- Malayalam: “അപ്പ്സല കൗണ്ടി”
- Maltese: “Uppsala län”
- Marathi: “उप्साला काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Uppsala Kōan”
- Mingrelian: “უპსალა (ლენი)”
- Mingrelian: “უპსალა”
- Northern Frisian: “Uppsala (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Uppsala”
- Northern Sami: “Uppsala leatna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uppsala län”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uppsala län”
- Norwegian: “Uppsala län”
- Ossetian: “Уппсалæ”
- Persian: “استان اوپسالا”
- Persian: “شهرستان اوپسالا”
- Polish: “Uppsala län”
- Polish: “Uppsala”
- Portuguese: “condado da Uppsala”
- Portuguese: “Província de Uppsala”
- Portuguese: “Uppsala”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Uppsala”
- Romanian: “Uppsala lan”
- Romanian: “Uppsala län”
- Russian: “Лен Уппсала”
- Russian: “Лен Упсала”
- Russian: “Уппсала”
- Scots: “Uppsala Coonty”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Uppsala län”
- Serbian: “Uppsala län”
- Serbian: “Upsala”
- Serbian: “Упсала”
- Serbian: “Упсалски округ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Uppsala”
- Sinhala: “උප්සලා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Uppsala län”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Uppsala”
- Slovenian: “Uppsala län”
- Slovenian: “Uppsalsko okrožje”
- Spanish: “Condado de Uppsala”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Uppsala”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Upsala”
- Swahili: “Uppsala län”
- Swedish: “SE-C”
- Swedish: “Uppsala län”
- Tamil: “உப்சாலா கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “ఉప్సాలా కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลอุปซอลา”
- Turkish: “Uppsala ili”
- Turkish: “Uppsala lan”
- Turkish: “Uppsala län”
- Turkish: “Uppsala”
- Ukrainian: “лен Уппсала”
- Ukrainian: “Уппсала”
- Urdu: “اپسالہ کاؤنٹی”
- Urdu: “اوپسالا کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “hạt Uppsala”
- Vietnamese: “Uppsala”
- Volapük: “Lupsaliän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Uppsala”
- Welsh: “Sir Uppsala”
- Western Armenian: “Ուփսալա”
- Western Frisian: “Uppsala län”
- Wu Chinese: “乌普萨拉省”
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