Gothenburg
Visited in July 2016
At a glance
- Country
- Sweden
- Region
- Gothenburg Municipality
- Population
- 674,529
- Type
- Second-largest city in Sweden and capital of the Västra Götaland County
- Coordinates
- 57.71°N, 11.97°E
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Overview
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden 400 km from the capital, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. King Gustavus Adolphus founded Gothenburg by royal charter in 1621 as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony.
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