Bohuslän

Bohuslän is a coastal province in on 's west coast, bordering to the north-east, to the south-east, and to the north.
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is a city of 35,000 people, with a total of 57,000 in Municipality, in Bohuslän, on the west coast of . is a nice little town, with a river cutting through the city centre.

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is a city and the seat of in , . It is also a part of Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area. It had 22,768 inhabitants in 2010.

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is a municipality in Bohuslän. It is best known for the numerous bronze age and iron age rock carvings, which were inscribed on the UNESCO cultural heritage list in 1994.

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is a municipality in Bohuslän on 's west coast. The municipality is located in the central parts of the province of Bohuslän with the Skagerrak to the west.

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is a city in Bohuslän on the west coast of , close to the border. While home only to 6,000 people, it is for historical reasons often referred to as a city.

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is in the municipality of , in Bohuslän on the west coast of . Many tourists come here in the summer to swim in the ocean.

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is a locality and the seat of in , Sweden. It had about 7,600 inhabitants in 2018. Situated on the south tip of Stångenäs peninsula at the mouth of Gullmarn fjord, it has two .

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Just off the Bohuslän coast, is 's fourth largest island. Only and are larger, as well as , which appears as a peninsula more than an island. Municipality, Orusts kommun, also contains some minor islands.

Bohuslän

Latitude of center
58.2333° or 58° 14′ north
Longitude of center
11.8° or 11° 48′ east
Population
309,000
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2720857
Wiki­data ID
Q209523
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Bohuslän” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bohuslän”
  • Arabic: “بوهوسلان”
  • Armenian: “Բուհուսլեն”
  • Basque: “Bohuslän”
  • Belarusian: “Бохуслен”
  • Belarusian: “Ландскап Бохуслен”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Бохуслен”
  • Bosnian: “Bohuslän”
  • Breton: “Bohuslän”
  • Catalan: “Bohuslän”
  • Chinese: “Bohuslän”
  • Chinese: “布胡斯”
  • Chinese: “布胡斯蘭”
  • Croatian: “Bohuslän”
  • Czech: “Bohuslän”
  • Danish: “Båhus Len”
  • Danish: “Båhus”
  • Danish: “Bohus Len”
  • Danish: “Bohuslæn”
  • Danish: “Bohuslän”
  • Danish: “Bohuslen”
  • Dutch: “Bohuslän”
  • Esperanto: “Bohuslan”
  • Esperanto: “Bohuslän”
  • Esperanto: “Bohuslando”
  • Estonian: “Bohuslän”
  • Finnish: “Bohuslääni”
  • Finnish: “Bohuslän”
  • French: “Båhuslen”
  • French: “Bohuslän”
  • Galician: “Bohuslän”
  • German: “Båhuslän”
  • German: “Bohuslän”
  • German: “Bohusland”
  • Greek: “Μπούχουσλεν”
  • Hebrew: “בוהוסלן”
  • Hungarian: “Bohuslän tartomány”
  • Icelandic: “Bohuslän”
  • Italian: “Bohuslän”
  • Japanese: “ブーヒュースレーン地方”
  • Japanese: “ボーフス県”
  • Korean: “보후슬렌”
  • Latin: “Bahusia”
  • Latin: “Bahusiana provincia”
  • Lithuanian: “Bohuslan”
  • Macedonian: “Бохуслен”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bohuslän”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოხუსლენიშ პროვინცია”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Båhuslen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bohuslän”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Båhuslän”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Båhuslen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bohuslän”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bohuslen”
  • Norwegian: “Bohuslän”
  • Ossetian: “Бохуслен”
  • Persian: “بوهوسلن”
  • Polish: “Bohuslän”
  • Portuguese: “Bohuslän”
  • Portuguese: “Província da Bohuslän”
  • Pushto: “بوهوسلن”
  • Romanian: “Bohuslän”
  • Russian: “Бохуслен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bohuslän”
  • Slovenian: “Bohuslän”
  • Spanish: “Bahusia”
  • Spanish: “Bohuslän”
  • Swedish: “Bohuslän”
  • Turkish: “Bohuslän”
  • Ukrainian: “Богуслен”
  • Urdu: “بوہوسلن”
  • Uzbek: “Bohuslän”
  • Vietnamese: “Bohuslän”
  • Volapük: “Bohusläniän”
  • Western Frisian: “Bohuslän”
  • Western Panjabi: “بوہسلان”
  • “Bohuslän”

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