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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 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.
Götaland is the southernmost region of Sweden. It consists of the historical provinces of Blekinge, Bohuslän, Dalsland, Gotland, Halland, Skåne, Småland, Västergötland, Öland and Östergötland . Category: Geography of Sweden.
Gotland (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ t l ə n d /, Swedish: [ˈɡɔ̌tːland] ⓘ; Gutland in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ θ l ə n d /), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province/county (Swedish län), municipality, and diocese.The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands (Lilla and Stora) to the west.
Götaland is the southernmost region of Sweden. It consists of the historical provinces of Blekinge, Bohuslän, Dalsland, Gotland, Halland, Skåne, Småland, Västergötland, Öland and Östergötland.
Jun 15, 2015 · Götaland, latinized form Gothia, is a region of Sweden encompassing the ten southern provinces, between Kattegatt in the west and the Baltic Sea in the east.
Västergötland, literally translated as western Götaland, is one of Sweden's most populous provinces. Several different subdivisions have been used during the centuries, and the province has been conjoined with Bohuslän and Dalsland to form the enormous Western Götaland County, with municipal confederations overlapping provincial borders.
