Hova
Hova is a locality and one of the two seats of Gullspång Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, the other is Gullspång. It had 1,288 inhabitants in 2010.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Raphael Saulus, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 1,250 residents
- Description: urban area in Gullspång Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Hova, Sweden”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hova Church and Hova railway station.
Folkeberg
Nature reserve
Photo: Janee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Folkeberg is a nature reserve, which is situated 2½ km north of Hova.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Älgarås.
Älgarås
Village
Photo: Lihagen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Älgarås is a locality situated in Töreboda Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 417 inhabitants in 2010. The battle of Älgarås, between the House of Sverker and House of Erik took place here in 1205, securing the crown for Sverker II of Sweden for some more years, until the battle of Lena in 1208. Älgarås is situated 5 km south of Hova.
Hova
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Hova socken, Hova-Älgarås, del, Gullspång Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
58.85782° or 58° 51′ 28″ northLongitude
14.21752° or 14° 13′ 3″ eastPopulation
1,250Elevation
112 metres (367 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE HVAOpen location code
9FCPV659+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 32940796OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Hova” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хува”
- Cebuano: “Hova (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Hova”
- Chinese: “Hova, Sweden”
- Chinese: “霍瓦 (瑞典)”
- Danish: “Hova”
- Dutch: “Hova”
- Faroese: “Hova”
- Finnish: “Hova”
- French: “Hova”
- German: “Hova”
- Icelandic: “Hova”
- Irish: “Hova”
- Italian: “Hova”
- Ladin: “Hova”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hova”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hova”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hova”
- Norwegian: “Hova”
- Persian: “هوا، سوئد”
- Polish: “Hova (Szwecja)”
- Polish: “Hova”
- Romanian: “Hova”
- Russian: “Хова”
- Swedish: “Hofva”
- Swedish: “Hova”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hova”. Photo: Raphael Saulus, Public domain.