Visby
Visby is one of the most remarkable towns in the Nordic countries, with 24,000 inhabitants. It is on the west coast of Sweden's largest island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
Photo: Żeglarz, Public domain.
- Type: City with 22,600 residents
- Description: urban area in Gotland Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Böi”, “Böin”, “Hansestaden Visby”, “Rosornas stad”, “The City of Roses”, “Wisby”, “विस्बे”, and “วิสบี”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Visby Cathedral and Saint Catherine in Visby.
Visby
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Gotland Municipality, Gotland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
SE VBY
Open location code
9F9WJ7QX+55
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Visby” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Visby”
- Albanian: “Visby”
- Amharic: “ቪስቢ”
- Arabic: “فيسبي”
- Aragonese: “Visby”
- Armenian: “Վիսբյու”
- Asturian: “Visby”
- Azerbaijani: “Visby”
- Bashkir: “Висбю”
- Basque: “Visby”
- Belarusian: “Вісбю”
- Belarusian: “Вісьбю”
- Bengali: “ভিসবি”
- Breton: “Visby”
- Bulgarian: “Висбю”
- Catalan: “Visby”
- Cebuano: “Visby”
- Chechen: “Висбю”
- 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”
- Galician: “Visby”
- Georgian: “ვისბიუ”
- German: “Visby”
- Greek: “Βίσμπι”
- Greek: “Βίσμπυ”
- Hausa: “Visby”
- Hebrew: “ויסבי”
- Hindi: “विस्बी”
- Hungarian: “Visby”
- Icelandic: “Visby”
- Indonesian: “Visby”
- Irish: “Visby”
- Italian: “Visby”
- Japanese: “ヴィースビ”
- Japanese: “ヴィスビュー”
- Javanese: “Visby”
- Kazakh: “Висбю”
- Kirghiz: “Висбү”
- 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”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Visby”
- Minangkabau: “Visby”
- Mingrelian: “ვისბიუ”
- Moksha: “Висбю”
- Mongolian: “Висбю”
- Nepali: “भिस्बी”
- Northern Frisian: “Visby”
- Northern Sami: “Visby”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Visby”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Visby”
- Norwegian: “Visby”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Visby”
- Oromo: “Visby”
- Ossetian: “Висбю”
- Panjabi: “ਵਿਸਬੀ”
- Persian: “ویزبه”
- Persian: “ویسبی”
- Polish: “Visby”
- Portuguese: “Visby”
- Pushto: “وسبی”
- Romanian: “Visby”
- Russian: “Висби”
- Russian: “Висбю”
- Scots: “Visby”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Visby”
- Serbian: “Висби”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Visby”
- Silesian: “Visby”
- Slovak: “Visby”
- Slovenian: “Visby”
- Somali: “Visby”
- Spanish: “Visby”
- Swahili: “Visby”
- Swedish: “Rosornas och ruinernas stad”
- Swedish: “Visby”
- Tajik: “Висбю”
- Tatar: “Висбю”
- Thai: “วีสบี”
- Tumbuka: “Visby”
- Turkish: “Visby”
- Ukrainian: “Вісбю”
- Urdu: “ویسپے”
- Uzbek: “Visby”
- Veps: “Visbü”
- Vietnamese: “Visby”
- Volapük: “Visby”
- Waray (Philippines): “Visby”
- Welsh: “Visby”
- Western Frisian: “Visby”
- Wu Chinese: “维斯比”
- Yue Chinese: “維斯比”
- “Visby”
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