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1 | Drottningholm Palace FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 59.3217 / 17.8861 | The Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of the Swedish royal family. It is located in Drottningholm. Built on the island Lovön (in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County), it is one of Sweden's Royal Palaces (...) | |
2 | Stockholm Palace FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 59.3269 / 18.0717 | Stockholm Palace or the Royal Palace (or) is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch (the actual residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia is at Drottningholm Palace). Stockholm Palace is located on Stadsholmen, in Gamla stan in the capital, Stockholm (...) | |
3 | Öland FeatureType : isle Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 56.7319 / 16.6592 | Öland (known in Latin as Oelandia, and sometimes written Øland in other Scandinavian languages, and Oland internationally) is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden. Öland has an area of and is located in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Småland (...) | |
4 | Karlskrona FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 56.1608 / 15.5861 | Karlskrona is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 35,212 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's only remaining naval base and the headquarters of the (...) | |
5 | Stockholm FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 59.3294 / 18.0686 | Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 960,031 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area (...) | |
6 | Uppsala FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 59.8333 / 17.6667 | Uppsala (; archaically spelled Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. It had 149,245 inhabitants in 2015. Located north of the capital Stockholm, it is also the seat of Uppsala Municipality (...) | |
7 | Luleå FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 65.5844 / 22.1539 | Luleå (or ;) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has about 75,000 inhabitants and is the seat of Luleå Municipality (with a total population of 76,770) (...) | |
8 | Nyköping FeatureType : null Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 58.7531 / 17.0086 | Nyköping Duden Aussprachewörterbuch. is a locality and the seat of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 32,759 inhabitants as of 2017. The city is also the capital of Södermanland County. Including Arnö, the locality on the southern shore of the bay just a couple of kilometres (...) | |
9 | Laholm FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 56.5167 / 13.0333 | Laholm is a town and the seat of Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 6,527 inhabitants in 2015. Laholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons often still referred to as a city. Geographically the town is located at the estuary of the river Lagan in the Bay of Laholm. (...) | |
10 | Sollefteå FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 63.1667 / 17.2667 | Sollefteå is a locality and the seat of Sollefteå Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 8,562 inhabitants in 2010. The earliest written account on Sollefteå is found in a script dating back to 1270 (...) | |
11 | Storkyrkan FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 59.3258 / 18.0706 | Storkyrkan ("The Great Church"), officially named Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of St. Nicholas) and informally called Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral), is the oldest church in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden (...) | |
12 | Umeå University FeatureType : edu Lat/Lng : 63.8206 / 20.3036 | Umeå University is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders. As of 2015, Umeå University has nearly 31,000 registered students (approximately 16,000 full-time students), including those at (...) | |
13 | Ljungby FeatureType : null Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 56.8167 / 13.9167 | Ljungby is the central locality of Ljungby Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden, with 15,785 inhabitants in 2015. Ljungby was in 1829 instituted as a köping, or market town, and did not become a municipality of its own when the first local government acts took effect in 1863, but retained part of (...) | |
14 | Gothenburg FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 57.7061 / 11.9536 | Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg;) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and part of Västra Götaland County. It is situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 570,000 in the city center and about 1 million (...) | |
15 | Swedish National Heritage Board FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 59.3336 / 18.0911 | The Swedish National Heritage Board (; RAÄ) is a Swedish government agency responsible for World Heritage Sites and other national heritage monuments and historical environments. It is governed by the Ministry of Culture (...) | |
16 | Skokloster Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 59.7032 / 17.6213 | Skokloster Castle is a Swedish Baroque castle built between 1654 and 1676 by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, located on a peninsula of Lake Mälaren between Stockholm and Uppsala. It became a state museum in the 1970s and displays collections of paintings, furniture, textiles and tableware as well as books and (...) | |
17 | Vadstena Abbey FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : 58.4506 / 14.8914 | The Abbey of Our Lady and of St. Bridget , more commonly referred to as Vadstena Abbey, situated on Lake Vättern in the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden, was the motherhouse of the Bridgettine Order. The abbey started on one of the farms donated to it by the king, but the town of Vadstena grew up around (...) | |
18 | Karolinska Institute FeatureType : edu Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 59.3489 / 18.0267 | The Karolinska Institute (KI; ;Karolinska Institutets Varumärkesplattform (Swedish) Revised Nov 2014, Page 20 https://internwebben.ki.se/sites/default/files/regler_vmplattform_nov2014_4_0.pdf sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in EnglishNobel Foundation Directory. 2003 (...) | |
19 | Alby, Öland FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 56.4828 / 16.5753 | Alby is a village on the Baltic Sea in the Hulterstad district at the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret. Archaeological evidence indicates this settlement to have been one of the oldest on the island of Öland, with excavations, dating to the paleolithic era, showing the presence of (...) | |
20 | Storvreta FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 59.9667 / 17.7 | Storvreta is a locality in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 6,347 inhabitants in 2010. It is located 15 kilometers north of Uppsala. (...) | |
21 | Humlegården FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 59.3392 / 18.0728 | Humlegården is a major park in Östermalm in Stockholm. It is the location of the Royal Library and in the centre of the park is a large statue of Carl von Linné, better known as Linnaeus. (...) | |
22 | Södertörn University FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 59.2194 / 17.9428 | Södertörn University (abbreviated as SH) is a public university (högskola) located in Flemingsberg, which is located in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. , Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, accessed 26 October 2010 In 2013, it had (...) | |
23 | Stegeborg Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 58.4414 / 16.5989 | Stegeborg Castle is a ruined castle in St Anna parish, Söderköping, Östergötland, located on an island in a narrow sound at the bay of Slätbaken. (...) | |
24 | Uppsala University Hospital FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 59.8472 / 17.6403 | Uppsala University Hospital (, often referred to colloquially as "Akademiska" or "Ackis") in Uppsala, Sweden is a teaching hospital for the Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine and the Nursing School. Uppsala University Hospital is owned and operated by the Uppsala County Council in cooperation (...) | |
25 | Bjärka-Säby Château FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 58.2706 / 15.7388 | Bjärka-Säby Château (Nya slottet Bjärka-Säby) is a baroque style château located south of Linköping, in Östergötland County, Sweden. In Bjärka-Säby there are actually two châteaus, simply referred to as the old and the new château of Bjärka-Säby. The older building dates from 1632 (...) | |
26 | Carl Gustaf Hammarskjöld FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 59.3545 / 18.0203 | Carl Gustaf Valdemar Hammarskjöld (22 April 1865 – 27 February 1940), was a Swedish military officer and conservative politician. (...) | |
27 | Edsberg, Sollentuna FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 59.4461 / 17.9661 | Edsberg is an urban district in Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is located at the bottom of the Edsviken Bay, which forms a long inlet all the way from the Baltic Sea. It forms part of Stockholm (...) | |
28 | Gävle University College FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 60.667 / 17.118 | Gävle University College is a university college (högskola) located in Gävle, Sweden. , Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, accessed 2010-10-26 It uses the name "University of Gävle" in English, although it is officially a 'University College' (...) | |
29 | Stockholm City Theatre FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 59.3317 / 18.0637 | Stockholm City Theatre is Sweden's most popular theatre stage. It was created in 1956 but the first performance was delayed until 1960. It had not yet been decided at that point where in the city the theatre would lie so the Folkets hus building at Norra Bantorget, with a temporary stage, became the (...) | |
30 | Skånelaholm Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 59.5783 / 17.9358 | Skånelaholm Castle is a castle in Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. (...) | |
31 | Halltorp FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 56.7997 / 16.5831 | Halltorp is one of the earliest manor houses on the island of Öland, Sweden, dating from the 11th century AD. In early documents it is known as Hauldtorp, and it is cited as one of the early Viking settlements of Öland (...) | |