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Västergötland (Swedish: [ˈvɛ̂sːtɛrˌjøːtland] ⓘ), also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, [2] is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.
Västra Götaland County (Swedish: Västra Götalands län) is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (kommuner).
Gothenburg (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ θ ən b ɜːr ɡ / ⓘ; [4] abbreviated Gbg; [5] [6] Swedish: Göteborg [jœtɛˈbɔrj] ⓘ) is the gubernatorial seat 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.
Östergötland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈœ̂sːtɛrˌjøːtland] ⓘ; English exonym: East Gothland) [2] is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish) in the south of Sweden.
The original four ships of the class (Västergötland, Hälsingland, Södermanland, and Östergötland) were built between 1983 and 1988 by Kockums AB.The latter two have undergone comprehensive refits, including the insertion of a new hull section with an air-independent propulsion system equipped with Stirling engines.
Skövde (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɧœ̂vːdɛ] ⓘ) is a locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central southern Sweden.
Vg 56 in Källby. Västergötland Runic Inscription 56 or Vg 56 is the Rundata listing for an inscription consisting of runic text in the younger futhark carved in two text bands on the right edge of a sandstone stone 3.1 meters in height that depicts the figure of a man holding a stick and wearing a large belt and headdress with antlers.
Map of Götaland, the areas of the Geats, which politically merged with the Swedes to form Sweden. Note that Värmland, north of Dalsland and Västergötland, also was a part of Götaland originally, while the large island of Gotland was not.