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The City of Gothenburg was founded in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden . It lies by the sea at the mouth of Göta Älv —the river running through the city—and is the largest seaport in the Nordic countries . [ 3 ] Gothenburg is also home to many students, as the city includes

At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of about 9.4 million. [ 5 ] Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54 /sq mi) but a considerably higher density

thousands of years. During the Stone Age , there was incidentally a settlement right on present day Gothenburg . As a reminiscence, there are eleven rock carvings in the Gothenburg area. The predecessor of present day Gothenburg was Lödöse , 40 kilometers upstream from the present day

From 1923 to 1977, prior to the opening of the Gothenburg -Landvetter Airport , the city had been served by the Torslanda Airport , located here. The control tower , located on a hilltop adjacent to the site of the airport, was renovated in 2007, and is one of the last remaining artifacts of

for the development of football in the city, as until that point, Örgryte IS , the largest of Gothenburg clubs, were dominant. IFK Göteborg represented some needed competition. [ 4 ] IFK Göteborg became the first Swedish team in four years to beat Örgryte IS in 1907. [ 5 ] They then

The Gothenburg Cathedral ( Swedish : Gustavi domkyrka / Göteborgs domkyrka ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a cathedral in Gothenburg , Sweden . The cathedral is the seat of the bishop in the Church of Sweden diocese of Gothenburg . Contents 1 The original church 2 The first cathedral

To the north, Scania borders the provinces of Halland and Småland , to the north-east Blekinge , to the east and south the Baltic Sea , and to the west the Oresund strait . Since 2000 a road and railway bridge, the Oresund Bridge [ 5 ] constitutes a fixed link to the Danish island of Zealand

The major part of the Gothenburg urban area ( Göteborgs tätort ) is situated within the municipality, but there are also some other localities as well as rural areas. When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg , founded and chartered in

It lies in the Southern Göteborg Archipelago of Sweden with about 1,400 inhabitants. Regular ferries connect the island to Gothenburg and a bridge links Styrsö with Donsö . The main communication vehicle on the island is a three-wheeled moped , called a flakmoped in Swedish . [ edit

The three clubs of the Gothenburg Alliance ( Göteborgsalliansen )— GAIS , IFK Göteborg and Örgryte IS —played the majority of their matches on the old Gamla Ullevi from its inauguration in 1916 until the newer Ullevi stadium was completed in 1958 for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden