Sweden
Gotland County
Gotland Municipality

Visby

Visby is one of the most remarkable towns in the . It is on the west coast of 's largest island in the Baltic Sea with about 23,000 citizens.
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  • Type: City with 22,600 residents
  • Description: urban area in Gotland Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Böi”, “Böin”, and “Wisby”
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Photo: Tore Danielsson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Visby Cathedral and Saint Catherine in Visby.

Church
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, formally Visby Saint Mary's Cathedral, is a cathedral within the Church of Sweden, seat of the Bishop of Visby. It lies in the centre of Visby, the main town on the Swedish island .

Photo: Esquilo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Garden
Photo: Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Visby

Latitude
57.6379° or 57° 38′ 17″ north
Longitude
18.298° or 18° 17′ 53″ east
Population
22,600
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
VBY
United Nations Location Code
SE VBY
Open location code
9F9WJ7QX+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27150427
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2662689
Wiki­data ID
Q54757
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Visby” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Visby”
  • Albanian: “Visby”
  • Arabic: “فيسبي”
  • Aragonese: “Visby”
  • Armenian: “Վիսբյու”
  • Asturian: “Visby”
  • Bashkir: “Висбю”
  • Basque: “Visby”
  • Belarusian: “Вісбю”
  • Belarusian: “Вісьбю”
  • Breton: “Visby”
  • Bulgarian: “Висбю”
  • Catalan: “Visby”
  • Cebuano: “Visby”
  • Chechen: “Висбю”
  • Chinese: “Visby”
  • Chinese: “維斯比”
  • Chinese: “维斯比”
  • Cornish: “Visby”
  • Croatian: “Visby”
  • Czech: “Visby”
  • Danish: “Visby”
  • Dutch: “Visby”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيسبى”
  • Esperanto: “Visby”
  • Estonian: “Visby”
  • Faroese: “Visby”
  • Finnish: “Visby”
  • French: “Visby”
  • French: “Wisby”
  • Galician: “Visby”
  • Georgian: “ვისბიუ”
  • German: “Visby”
  • German: “Wisby”
  • Greek: “Βίσμπι”
  • Greek: “Βίσμπυ”
  • Hausa: “Visby”
  • Hebrew: “ויסבי”
  • Hindi: “विस्बी”
  • Hindi: “विस्बे”
  • Hungarian: “Visby”
  • Icelandic: “Visby”
  • Indonesian: “Visby”
  • Irish: “Visby”
  • Italian: “Visby”
  • Japanese: “ヴィースビ”
  • Japanese: “ヴィスビュー”
  • Kirghiz: “Висбю”
  • Korean: “비스뷔”
  • Kotava: “Visby”
  • Kurdish: “Visby”
  • Ladin: “Visby”
  • Latin: “Visbia”
  • Latin: “Wisbia”
  • Latvian: “Visbija”
  • Limburgan: “Visby”
  • Lithuanian: “Visbis”
  • Lojban: “visbis”
  • Lojban: “visbus”
  • Lombard: “Visby”
  • Low German: “Visby”
  • Luxembourgish: “Visby”
  • Malay: “Visby”
  • Malayalam: “വിസ്ബി”
  • Maltese: “Visby”
  • Maltese: “Wisby”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Visby”
  • Minangkabau: “Visby”
  • Mingrelian: “ვისბიუ”
  • Moksha: “Висбю”
  • Nepali: “भिस्बी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Visby”
  • Northern Sami: “Visby”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Visby”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Visby”
  • Norwegian: “Visby”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Visby”
  • Ossetian: “Висбю”
  • Persian: “ویزبه”
  • Persian: “ویسبی”
  • Polish: “Visby”
  • Portuguese: “Visby”
  • Romanian: “Visby”
  • Russian: “Висби”
  • Russian: “Висбю”
  • Scots: “Visby”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Visby”
  • Serbian: “Висби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Visby”
  • Silesian: “Visby”
  • Slovak: “Visby”
  • Slovenian: “Visby”
  • Spanish: “Visbia”
  • Spanish: “Visby”
  • Swedish: “Rosornas och ruinernas stad”
  • Swedish: “Visby”
  • Swedish: “Wisby”
  • Tatar: “Висбю”
  • Thai: “วิสบี”
  • Thai: “วีสบี”
  • Turkish: “Visby”
  • Ukrainian: “Вісбю”
  • Urdu: “ویسپے”
  • Veps: “Visbü”
  • Vietnamese: “Visby”
  • Volapük: “Visby”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Visby”
  • Welsh: “Visby”
  • Western Frisian: “Visby”
  • Wu Chinese: “维斯比”
  • Yue Chinese: “維斯比”

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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 “Visby”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.