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Gothenburg ( / ˈɡɒθənbɜːrɡ / ⓘ; [6] abbreviated Gbg; [7] [8] Swedish: Göteborg [jœtɛˈbɔrj] ⓘ) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. It is situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, with ...
The Gothenburg congestion tax ( Swedish: Trängselskatt i Göteborg ), also referred to as the Gothenburg congestion charge, is a congestion pricing system implemented as a tax levied on most vehicles entering and exiting central Gothenburg, Sweden, including some main roads passing by the city. The congestion tax was introduced on January 1 ...
Torslanda. / 57.717°N 11.767°E / 57.717; 11.767. Torslanda is an urban district [2] situated in Gothenburg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 10,129 inhabitants in 2005. [1]
Vulnerable area ( Swedish: Utsatt område) is a term applied by the Swedish Police Authority to areas with high crime rates and social exclusion. [1] [2] [3] They are colloquially known as no-go zones. [4] [5] In the December 2015 report, there were 53 vulnerable areas, [6] which increased to 61 in June 2017. The increase is reported to be due ...
1762 - East India House (Gothenburg) [ sv] built. 1773 - The Vauxhall pleasure gardens is inaugurated. 1778 - Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg active. [4] 1779 - Comediehuset, the first theater in the city, is established. 1786 - Societetsskolan, the first secondary school open to females, is founded.
Gothenburg Municipality. / 57.700°N 11.933°E / 57.700; 11.933. Area as of 1 January 2014. Gothenburg Municipality ( Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg . When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 ...
Sweden has three metropolitan areas consisting of the areas surrounding the three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. [1] The statistics have been retrieved from Statistics Sweden and the statistics released on 10 November 2014. [2] The official land areas for each municipality have also been retrieved from Statistics Sweden, the ...
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