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Västra Götaland County

Gothenburg Municipality

Gothenburg Municipality is a municipality in in western . Its seat is located in the city of . When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected city council.
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  • Type: Municipality with 601,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “1480”, “Goeteborgs stad”, “Göteborg Municipality”, “Göteborgs kommun”, and “Göteborgs Stad”

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Ullevi and Scandinavium.

Stadium
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Ullevi, sometimes known as Nya Ullevi, is a multi-purpose stadium in , . It was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then has also hosted the World Allround Speed Skating Championships six times; the 1995 World Championships…

Stadium
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is an indoor arena located in , Sweden. Construction on began in 1969 after decades of setbacks, and was inaugurated on 18 May 1971.

Stadium
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Gamla Ullevi is a football in , , that opened on 5 April 2009. The stadium replaced the city's previous main football stadium, also called Gamla Ullevi, and is the home ground of GAIS, IFK Göteborg and Örgryte IS.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gothenburg and Mölndal.

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is 's second largest city with 600,000 inhabitants, and about 1 million in the metropolitan area. The city lies on Sweden's west coast, at the outlet of the Göta river.

Town
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is the seat and administrative centre of and a part of the urban area on the west coast of . About 40,000 of the municipality's 60,000 inhabitants live in proper.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Gothenburg Municipality

Latitude
57.7101° or 57° 42′ 36″ north
Longitude
11.9728° or 11° 58′ 22″ east
Population
601,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
9F9HPX6F+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2499162924
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2711533
Wiki­data ID
Q52502
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Gothenburg Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية كوثنبورغ”
  • Armenian: “Գյոթեբորգ համայնք”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Göteborgs (Suecia)”
  • Asturian: “Göteborgs kommun”
  • Asturian: “Göteborgs”
  • Basque: “Göteborg udalerria”
  • Bavarian: “Gotnburg”
  • Belarusian: “Гётэбарг (камуна)”
  • Belarusian: “Гётэбарг”
  • Belarusian: “Гётэборг (грамада)”
  • Belarusian: “Гётэборг (камуна)”
  • Belarusian: “Гётэборг”
  • Belarusian: “камуна Гётэбарг”
  • Breton: “Göteborg”
  • Bulgarian: “Гьотеборг”
  • Catalan: “Göteborg”
  • Cebuano: “Göteborgs stad”
  • Chinese: “Göteborg Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “哥德堡市”
  • Chinese: “哥德堡市鎮”
  • Chinese: “哥德堡市镇”
  • Corsican: “Göteborg”
  • Danish: “Gøteborg Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Göteborg”
  • Esperanto: “Göteborgs kommun”
  • Esperanto: “Gotenburga komunumo”
  • Esperanto: “Gotenburgo”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Göteborg”
  • Faroese: “Göteborgs kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Göteborgin kunta”
  • Finnish: “Göteborgs kommun”
  • French: “Göteborg”
  • Galician: “Concello de Gotemburgo”
  • Galician: “Gotemburgo (municipio)”
  • German: “Gemeinde Göteborg”
  • German: “Göteborg”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Γκέτεμποργκ”
  • Hungarian: “Göteborg község”
  • Indonesian: “Göteborg”
  • Italian: “Göteborg”
  • Japanese: “イェーテボリ市”
  • Korean: “예테보리시”
  • Ladin: “Göteborg”
  • Ladin: “Gothenburg”
  • Low German: “Kommun Göteborg”
  • Maltese: “Göteborg”
  • Maltese: “Gothenburg”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Göteborg Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Гётэборг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Göteborg (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Göteborg”
  • Northern Sami: “Göteborga gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Göteborg kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Göteborgs kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Göteborg kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Göteborgs Kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Gøteborgs Kommun”
  • Persian: “بخش یوتبری”
  • Polish: “Gmina Göteborg”
  • Portuguese: “Gotemburgo”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Göteborg”
  • Russian: “Гётеборг”
  • Scots: “Gothenburg Municipality”
  • Slovenian: “Göteborgs kommun”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Göteborg”
  • Spanish: “Municipalidad de Gothenburg”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Gotemburgo”
  • Swedish: “Göteborg kommun”
  • Swedish: “Göteborg stad”
  • Swedish: “Göteborgs kommun”
  • Swedish: “Göteborgs stad”
  • Tahitian: “Göteborg”
  • Tatar: “Гөтеборг”
  • Ukrainian: “Гетеборг”
  • Vietnamese: “Göteborg (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Göteborg”
  • Vietnamese: “Gothenburg”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Göteborg”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Nils Ericson Terminalen and Centralhuset.

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