Borgholm

Borgholm () is a city and the seat of Borgholm Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 4,401 inhabitants in 2020. It is located on the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, at the Kalmar Strait-side of Öland, north of Färjestaden.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Borgholm
Settlement.pushpin_map: Sweden Kalmar#Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Borgholm Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kalmar County
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Öland
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.established_date: 1816
Settlement.area_total_km2: 2.56
Settlement.population_as_of: 31 December 2010
Settlement.population_total: 3,071
Settlement.population_density_km2: 1201
Settlement.timezone: CET
Settlement.utc_offset: +1

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Geography
Etymology
History
Environs
Gallery
References
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Borgholm is one of Sweden's historical towns with a former city status (stad). The city is best known for its once-magnificent fortress – Borgholm Castle – which is now in ruins. Borgholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borgholm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.