Sweden
Kronoberg County
Växjö Municipality

Växjö

Växjö is the largest city in Kronobergs län in the region in . In April 2013 Växjö's Smålandsposten reported a municipal population of 84,800 inhabitants.
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  • Type: City with 55,600 residents
  • Description: urban area in Växjö Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Vaexjoe” and “Vaxjo”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Växjö Cathedral and Museum of Småland.

Church
Photo: AleWi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a cathedral in Växjö, Sweden. It is the seat of the Bishop of Växjö within the Church of Sweden. According to legend, the cathedral was founded by Saint Sigfrid of Sweden.

Museum
Photo: Netha Hussain, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
Photo: AleWi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Växjö

Latitude
56.8787° or 56° 52′ 43″ north
Longitude
14.8094° or 14° 48′ 34″ east
Population
55,600
Elevation
169 metres (554 feet)
IATA airport code
VXO
United Nations Location Code
SE VXO
Open location code
9F8PVRH5+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25508576
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2663536
Wiki­data ID
Q26152
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Växjö” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Växjö”
  • Arabic: “فاكسيو”
  • Arabic: “فيكخو”
  • Aragonese: “Växjö”
  • Armenian: “Վեկշյո”
  • Basque: “Växjö”
  • Belarusian: “Векшэ”
  • Belarusian: “Вэкша”
  • Belarusian: “Вэкшэ”
  • Bengali: “ভ্যাক্সো”
  • Bulgarian: “Векшьо”
  • Catalan: “Växjö”
  • Cebuano: “Växjö (kapital sa lalawigan sa Suwesya)”
  • Cebuano: “Växjö”
  • Chechen: “Векшё”
  • Chinese: “Växjö”
  • Chinese: “韋克舍”
  • Chinese: “韦克舍”
  • Cornish: “Växjö”
  • Croatian: “Växjö”
  • Czech: “Växjö”
  • Danish: “Växjö”
  • Dutch: “Växjö”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فاكسيو”
  • Esperanto: “Vaxjo”
  • Esperanto: “Växjö”
  • Estonian: “Växjö”
  • Faroese: “Växjö”
  • Finnish: “Växjö”
  • French: “Vaxjo”
  • French: “Växjö”
  • Galician: “Växjö”
  • Georgian: “ვექშე”
  • German: “Vägsjö”
  • German: “Växjö”
  • German: “Wäxjö”
  • Greek: “Βακχό”
  • Gujarati: “વાક્સજો”
  • Hebrew: “וואקשו”
  • Hebrew: “וקכה”
  • Hebrew: “וקשה”
  • Hindi: “वाक्सजो”
  • Hungarian: “Växjö”
  • Icelandic: “Växjö”
  • Indonesian: “Vaxjo”
  • Indonesian: “Växjö”
  • Irish: “Växjö”
  • Italian: “Vaxjo”
  • Italian: “Växjö”
  • Japanese: “ヴェクショー”
  • Japanese: “ヴェクショー市”
  • Japanese: “ベクショー”
  • Kalaallisut: “Växjö”
  • Kannada: “ವಸ್ಜೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Векшё”
  • Korean: “벡셰”
  • Kurdish: “Växjö”
  • Ladin: “Växjö”
  • Latin: “Vexionia”
  • Latin: “Wexiö”
  • Latin: “Wexionia”
  • Latin: “Wexsia”
  • Latvian: “Vekše”
  • Limburgan: “Växjö”
  • Lithuanian: “Vaxjo”
  • Lithuanian: “Växjö”
  • Lithuanian: “Vekšė”
  • Lithuanian: “Vekšis”
  • Lithuanian: “Viekšio”
  • Lithuanian: “Viekšis”
  • Lombard: “Växjö”
  • Macedonian: “Векше”
  • Malay: “Vaxjo”
  • Malay: “Växjö”
  • Maori: “Växjö”
  • Marathi: “वॅक्सजो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Växjö”
  • Minangkabau: “Växjö”
  • Moksha: “Вэкшэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Växjö”
  • Northern Sami: “Växjö”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Væxjø”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Växjö”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Växjö”
  • Norwegian: “Växjö”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Växjö”
  • Ossetian: “Векше”
  • Ossetian: “Векшё”
  • Persian: “وکخو”
  • Persian: “وکفو”
  • Polish: “Vaexjö”
  • Polish: “Vaxjo”
  • Polish: “Växjö”
  • Portuguese: “R27”
  • Portuguese: “R37”
  • Portuguese: “Växjö”
  • Romanian: “Vaxjo”
  • Romanian: “Växjö”
  • Russian: “Ваксшё”
  • Russian: “Векше”
  • Russian: “Векшё”
  • Scots: “Växjö”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Växjö”
  • Serbian: “Vekše”
  • Serbian: “Векше”
  • Serbian: “Векшјо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Växjö”
  • Silesian: “Växjö”
  • Sinhala: “වැක්ස්ජෝ”
  • Slovak: “Växjö”
  • Slovenian: “Växjö”
  • Spanish: “Vaxjo”
  • Spanish: “Vaxjö”
  • Spanish: “Växjo”
  • Spanish: “Växjö”
  • Swahili: “Växjö”
  • Swedish: “Växjö”
  • Swedish: “Vexiö” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Wäxjö”
  • Tamil: “வாக்ஸ்ஜோ”
  • Tatar: “Векшө”
  • Telugu: “వాక్స్ హో”
  • Thai: “เว็กเควอ”
  • Thai: “เวกเชอ”
  • Turkish: “Vaxjo”
  • Turkish: “Vaxjö”
  • Turkish: “Växjö”
  • Ukrainian: “Векше”
  • Urdu: “ویکوہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Vaxjo”
  • Vietnamese: “Växjö”
  • Volapük: “Växjö”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Växjö”
  • Welsh: “Växjö”
  • Western Frisian: “Växjö”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویکیو”
  • Wu Chinese: “韦克舍”

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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 “Växjö”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.