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Region of Sweden
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Götaland is the southernmost of the three lands that make up Sweden. It is home to almost half of Sweden's population and probably even a larger share of its cultural and historical sights.
The busiest international airports in or near Götaland are Gothenburg Landvetter Airport, Malmö-Sturup Airport, Copenhagen Airport and Nyköping-Skavsta Airport.
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Lund is a university city in Scania, the southern part of Sweden. Lund is one of the oldest cities in Sweden and has also played an important part in Danish history.
Linköping (pronounced "Lin-shœ-ping") is Sweden's fifth biggest municipality, and the seat of Östergötland county. It has about 167,000 inhabitants in the municipality (2023), including some countryside, and just under 100,000 in the city proper.
Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) is Sweden's second largest city with 600,000 inhabitants, and about 1 million in the metropolitan area. The city lies on Sweden's West Coast, at the outlet of the Göta River.
Halmstad (Swedish: Halmstad, [ˈhalmsta]) is a town in Halland on Sweden's west coast. Halmstad is a popular tourist destination in July and August much because of the Tylösand and Östra stranden (beaches) but also for its nightlife, with many outside bars and restaurants that open in the summer.
Jönköping is by many Swedes referred to as the Jerusalem of Sweden - this is due to the town's many churches. The city is on the southern end of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern.
Kalmar is a city in the Småland province in southeastern Sweden, on the coast of the Baltic sea. Kalmar is one of the oldest Swedish cities, and traces of settlements from the Iron Age have been found.
Karlskrona, archaic spelling Carlskrona, is a city in Blekinge in southern Sweden. While the city has 37,000 inhabitants (2021), around 60,000 live in the municipality, Karlskrona kommun.
Malmö is Sweden's third largest city with a population of about 352,000 (2021), and the capital of the province of Scania (Skåne) on the southern tip of the country. Malmö is a port city on the Öresund strait, facing Copenhagen on its other bank, with which it is connected by the Öresund bridge.
Visby is one of the most remarkable towns in the Nordic countries, with 24,000 inhabitants. It is on the west coast of Sweden's largest island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
Blekinge archipelago, Blekinge skärgård, is in Blekinge, Sweden.
Do not confuse with the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. Fårö is an island just north of Gotland.
The Gothenburg Archipelago (Göteborgs skärgård) is a group of islands easily reachable from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Stora Karlsö and Lilla Karlsö (Swedish:"Large" and "Small" "Island of Carl", respectively) are two islands and natural reserves west of the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Karlsöarna are their collective (definite plural) name.
Tanum is a municipality in Bohuslän. It is best known for the numerous bronze age and iron age rock carvings (petroglyphs, Swedish: hällristningar), which were inscribed on the UNESCO cultural heritage list in 1994.
Vadstena (pronounced "Vasstena" by the locals) is a village in Sweden. It is in the northern part of the Götaland region in the Östergötland county.
Visingsö is an island in the middle of Lake Vättern. It is located in Jönköping Municipality, in the Swedish province of Småland, and has 716 inhabitants (2020).
Älmhult is a town in Småland in southern Sweden. The town has about 9,000 inhabitants, with a total of 15,000 in the municipality.
Österlen is a part of the Swedish historical province of Skåne. The town Simrishamn is in Österlen.
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