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Gothenburg

#430 in World

Sweden

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© Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, SwedenCC BY 2.0
Population
583K
Coordinates
57.7089, 11.9746
Category
cities

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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.

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