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international.goteborg.se. Gothenburg (/ ˈɡɒθənbɜːrɡ / ⓘ; [ 4 ] abbreviated Gbg; [ 5 ][ 6 ] 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.
Gothenburg fish market. Gothenburg Municipality (Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg. When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city ...
Coat of arms of Gothenburg.The lion is symbolic of Götaland, [1] and its shield bears the Three Crowns, the national emblem of Sweden.. The history of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) begins with the foundation of the city in 1621, although by that time people had already been living in the area for thousands of years, since the Neolithic Period, and moreover there had already been a series of ...
Website. sweden.se. Sweden, [f] formally the Kingdom of Sweden, [g][h] is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), [4] Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the fifth-largest country in Europe.
www.o.lst.se. 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 ...
Time in Sweden. In Sweden, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00; Swedish: centraleuropeisk tid ). [1] Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST). [2] Sweden adopted CET in 1900.
Demographics of Sweden. The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden). Sweden 's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic, the 10th-most populous member state of the European Union, and the 87th-most populous country in the world.
Götaplatsen. Coordinates: 57°41′49.8″N 11°58′46.5″E. Götaplatsen at night. Götaplatsen is a public square in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the southern end of Avenyn, the city's main boulevard. [1] The square was inaugurated when Gothenburg held a major international industrial exhibition, In 1923, celebrating the city's 300th anniversary.