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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hjo Church and Hjo folkhögskola.
Hjo Church
Church
Photo: Tanzania, Public domain.
Hjo Church is a church in Hjo in Sweden. A 1794 fire destroyed the old church. Belonging to Hjo Parish of the Church of Sweden, construction of the current church begun in 1796 and was completed in 1799.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mofalla.
Mofalla
Hamlet
Photo: Nasko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mofalla is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km northwest of Hjo.
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″ northLongitude
14.28792° or 14° 17′ 17″ eastPopulation
6,090Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE HJOOpen location code
9FCP872Q+G5OpenStreetMap ID
node 29195071OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Hjo” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Hjo”
- Arabic: “Hjo”
- Arabic: “هيو”
- Armenian: “Յու”
- Asturian: “Hjo”
- Bulgarian: “Hjo”
- Bulgarian: “Ю (град)”
- Bulgarian: “Ю”
- Catalan: “Hjo”
- Cebuano: “Hjo”
- Chinese: “Hjo”
- Chinese: “尤城”
- Croatian: “Hjo”
- Danish: “Hjo”
- Dutch: “Hjo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيو”
- Faroese: “Hjo”
- Finnish: “Hjo”
- French: “Hjo”
- German: “Hjo”
- Greek: “Hjo”
- Hebrew: “Hjo”
- Icelandic: “Hjo”
- Indonesian: “Hjo”
- Irish: “Hjo”
- Italian: “Hjo”
- Japanese: “Hjo”
- Japanese: “ユー”
- Ladin: “Hjo”
- Latin: “Hiovia”
- Latin: “Hjo”
- Lithuanian: “Hjos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hjo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hjo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hjo”
- Norwegian: “Hjo”
- Persian: “Hjo”
- Persian: “یوا”
- Polish: “Hjo”
- Portuguese: “Hjo”
- Romanian: “Hjo”
- Russian: “Hjo”
- Russian: “Ю (город)”
- Russian: “Ю”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hjo”
- Slovenian: “Hjo”
- Swedish: “Hjo”
- Turkish: “Hjo”
- Ukrainian: “Ю (містечко)”
- Volapük: “Hjo”
- Western Mari: “Hjo”
- Western Mari: “Ю (Швеции)”
- Western Mari: “Ю”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Hjo”. Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 3.0.