Hjo
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.Places of Interest
Highlights: Hjo Church and Equmenia Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mofalla.
Hjo
- Type: Town with 6,090 residents
- Description: town in Hjo Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Hjo Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
58.3013° or 58° 18′ 5″ north
Longitude
14.28792° or 14° 17′ 17″ east
Population
6,090
Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SE HJO
Open location code
9FCP872Q+G5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Hjo” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Hjo”
- Arabic: “هيو”
- Armenian: “Յու”
- Asturian: “Hjo”
- Azerbaijani: “Hyo”
- Bulgarian: “Ю (град)”
- Bulgarian: “Ю”
- Catalan: “Hjo”
- Cebuano: “Hjo”
- Chinese: “尤城”
- Croatian: “Hjo”
- Danish: “Hjo”
- Dutch: “Hjo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيو”
- Faroese: “Hjo”
- Finnish: “Hjo”
- French: “Hjo”
- German: “Hjo”
- Icelandic: “Hjo”
- Indonesian: “Hjo”
- Irish: “Hjo”
- Italian: “Hjo”
- Japanese: “ユー”
- Kirghiz: “Ю”
- Ladin: “Hjo”
- Latin: “Hiovia”
- Lithuanian: “Hjos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hjo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hjo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hjo”
- Norwegian: “Hjo”
- Persian: “یوا”
- Polish: “Hjo”
- Portuguese: “Hjo”
- Romanian: “Hjo”
- Russian: “Ю (город)”
- Russian: “Ю”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hjo”
- Slovenian: “Hjo”
- Swedish: “Hjo”
- Turkish: “Hjo”
- Ukrainian: “Ю (містечко)”
- Urdu: “ہیو، سویڈن”
- Volapük: “Hjo”
- Western Mari: “Ю (Швеции)”
- Western Mari: “Ю”
- “Hjo”
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