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Västra Götaland County ( Swedish: Västra Götalands län) is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden . The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities ( kommuner ). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population. [needs update] The formal capital and seat of the ...
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Skaraborg County (Swedish: Skaraborgs län [ˈskɑ̂ːraˌbɔrjs...
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From 1 January 1998 nearly all of the province is in the...
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Västra Götaland County. / 58.217025°N 11.733398°E /...
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From 1 January 1998 nearly all of the province is in the newly created Västra Götaland County, with the exception of Habo Municipality and Mullsjö Municipality, which were transferred to Jönköping County, and smaller parts of the province which are in Halland County and Örebro County. Heraldry
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Västra Götaland County. / 58.217025°N 11.733398°E / 58.217025; 11.733398. Västra Götaland County ( Swedish: Västra Götalands län) is a county in southern Sweden, with the seat in Gothenburg. It was established on 1 January 1998, as a merger out of former Gothenburg and Bohus County, Skaraborg County and Älvsborg County.
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Gothenburg ( / ˈɡɒθənbɜːrɡ / ⓘ; [6] abbreviated Gbg; [7] [8] Swedish: Göteborg [jœtɛˈbɔrj] ⓘ) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. It is situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, with ...
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Västra Götaland, län (county), southwestern Sweden. It was created in 1998 by the amalgamation of the counties of Älvsborg, Göteborg och Bohus, and Skaraborg. The capital is Gothenburg, Sweden’s major port and second largest city. Västra Götaland is bordered on the west by Norway, the Skagerrak,
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Gothenburg is the principal city on Sweden’s southwest coast and lies about 240 miles (390 km) southwest of Stockholm. It is the capital of Västra Götaland län (county). The city was founded by King Charles IX in 1603, on the site of earlier medieval settlements; the location was strategic because the Göta River estuary was Sweden’s ...
Västra Götalands Län is one of the youngest provinces in Sweden. It was only created in 1998 when the former provinces Göteborgs och Bohus Län, Älvsborgs Län and Skaraborgs Län merged to form one large province. Västra Götaland includes the historical landscape of Västergötland, the landscape of Dalsland between Vänern and the ...
