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Kungsholmen

Kungsholmen is an in in , part of central Stockholm, Sweden. It is situated north of and considered part of the historical province .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Library of Sweden and Nationalmuseum.

Library
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The is 's national library. It collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish association published abroad.

Museum
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is the national gallery of fine arts of Sweden, located on the peninsula in central . The museum's operations stretch far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, including the National Portrait Gallery collection at , the Gustavsberg porcelain museum, several castle collections and the Swedish Institute in Paris.

Museum
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The is located in the former Stock Exchange Building on the north side of the square in , the old town in central , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stockholm and Norrmalm.

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is 's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within . The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

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, also known as City, is the central borough of , bordering to to the east at Birger Jarlsgatan, the Old Town to the south, to the south-west, and Vasastan north-west of Tegnérgatan.

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pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in , containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

Kungsholmen

Latitude
59.3327° or 59° 19′ 58″ north
Longitude
18.026° or 18° 1′ 34″ east
Open location code
9FFW82MG+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 5004124
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Wiki­data ID
Q666729
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Kungsholmen” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kungsholmen”
  • Basque: “Kungsholmen”
  • Catalan: “Kungsholmen”
  • Chinese: “国王岛”
  • Chinese: “國王島”
  • Danish: “Kungsholmen”
  • Dutch: “Kungsholmen”
  • Estonian: “Kungsholmen”
  • Finnish: “Kungsholmen”
  • French: “Kungsholmen”
  • German: “Kungsholmen”
  • Hebrew: “קונגסהולמן”
  • Hungarian: “Kungsholmen”
  • Italian: “Kungsholmen”
  • Korean: “쿵스홀멘섬”
  • Latin: “Kungsholmen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kungsholmen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kungsholmen”
  • Norwegian: “Kungsholmen”
  • Slovenian: “Kungsholmen”
  • Spanish: “Kungsholmen”
  • Swedish: “Kungsholmen”
  • Turkish: “Kungsholmen”
  • Ukrainian: “Кунгсгольмен”

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