Skövde
Skövde is a locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland in central southern Sweden. Skövde is situated around 150 km northeast of Gothenburg, between Sweden's two largest lakes, Vänern and Vättern.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 34,500 residents
- Description: urban area in Skövde Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Sköfde” and “Skövd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skövde Central Station and Kulturfabriken.
Skövde Central Station
Railway station
Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skövde railway station is located in the city of Skövde, Sweden, along the Western Main Line. It is the main city of the Skaraborg region. Fast long-distance trains stop here, and there are regional trains and buses to other cities and villages in the region.
Skövde
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Skövde Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
58.3896° or 58° 23′ 23″ northLongitude
13.8456° or 13° 50′ 44″ eastPopulation
34,500Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)IATA airport code
KVBUnited Nations Location Code
SE SKVOpen location code
9FCM9RQW+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 25508588OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2677234Wikidata ID
Q21166
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Skövde” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Skövde”
- Arabic: “خوفدة”
- Aragonese: “Skövde”
- Armenian: “Շյովդե”
- Asturian: “Skövde”
- Belarusian: “Шоўдэ”
- Belarusian: “Шэўдэ”
- Bengali: “স্কোডি”
- Bulgarian: “Шьовде”
- Catalan: “Skövde”
- Cebuano: “Skövde”
- Chinese: “Skövde”
- Chinese: “舍夫德”
- Croatian: “Skövde”
- Czech: “Skövde”
- Danish: “Skövde”
- Dutch: “Skovde”
- Dutch: “Skövde”
- Esperanto: “Skövde”
- Estonian: “Skövde”
- Faroese: “Skövde”
- Finnish: “Skövde”
- French: “Skovde”
- French: “Skövde”
- Galician: “Skövde”
- Georgian: “შევდე”
- German: “Skövde”
- Greek: “Σκόβντε”
- Gujarati: “સ્કોવ્ડે”
- Hebrew: “סקובדה”
- Hindi: “स्कॉवडे”
- Hungarian: “Skövde”
- Icelandic: “Skövde”
- Indonesian: “Skovde”
- Indonesian: “Skövde”
- Irish: “Skövde”
- Italian: “Skoevde”
- Italian: “Skovde”
- Italian: “Skövde”
- Japanese: “シェーブデ”
- Japanese: “シェウヴデ”
- Japanese: “シェヴデ”
- Japanese: “フエヴデ”
- Kalaallisut: “Skövde”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಕೊವಡೆ”
- Kazakh: “Шёвде”
- Korean: “셰브데”
- Ladin: “Skövde”
- Latin: “Schednia”
- Latin: “Schedvia”
- Latvian: “Ševde”
- Lithuanian: “Šiovdė”
- Macedonian: “Шевде”
- Malay: “Skovde”
- Marathi: “स्क्वॉड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Skövde”
- Minangkabau: “Skövde”
- Moksha: “Шёвдэ”
- Northern Frisian: “Skövde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skövde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skøvde”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skövde”
- Norwegian: “Skövde”
- Norwegian: “Skøvde”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Skövde”
- Ossetian: “Шёвде”
- Persian: “کوده”
- Polish: “Skovde”
- Polish: “Skövde”
- Portuguese: “Skövde”
- Romanian: “Skovde”
- Romanian: “Skövde”
- Russian: “Шёвде”
- Scots: “Skövde”
- Serbian: “Skövde”
- Serbian: “Шевде”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Skövde”
- Sinhala: “ස්කොව්ඩෙ”
- Slovak: “Skövde”
- Slovenian: “Skövde”
- Spanish: “Skovde”
- Spanish: “Skövde”
- Swahili: “Skövde”
- Swedish: “Skövde”
- Tamil: “ஸ்க்காவ்ட்”
- Telugu: “స్కౌడి”
- Thai: “สโกเปีย”
- Turkish: “Skovde”
- Turkish: “Skövde”
- Ukrainian: “Шевде”
- Urdu: “سکوڈی”
- Vietnamese: “Skövde”
- Volapük: “Skövde”
- Welsh: “Skövde”
- Western Panjabi: “سکاووڈے”
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