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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).
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.
The three former counties that constitute today's Västra Götaland County. Map of the country roads through Älvsborg county and Dalsland in 1731. Älvsborg County (Swedish: Älvsborgs län) was a county of Sweden until 1997, when it was merged with the counties of Gothenburg & Bohus and Skaraborg to form Västra Götaland County.
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.
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.
Map of the country roads through Skaraborg county in 1731. Skaraborg County (Swedish: Skaraborgs län [ˈskɑ̂ːraˌbɔrjs ˈlɛːn]) [1] was a county of Sweden from 1634 until 1997.
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.