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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1575
Land area (2000): 2.543981 sq. miles (6.588880 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.047157 sq. miles (0.122137 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.591138 sq. miles (6.711017 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19385
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.931560 N, 100.159381 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69138
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gothenburg
Wikipedia
Gothenburg (; , ) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 549,789, with 549,839 in the urban area and 982,360 inhabitants in the metropolitan area.
Gothenburg was founded by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. At the mouth of the Göta älv, the Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in the Nordic countries.
Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes both the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927.
Gothenburg is served by Göteborg Landvetter Airport, located southeast of the city center. The smaller Göteborg City Airport, located from the city center, was closed to regular airline traffic in 2015.
The city hosts some of the largest annual events in Scandinavia. The Gothenburg Film Festival, held in January since 1979, is the leading Scandinavian film festival with over 155,000 visitors each year. In summer, a wide variety of music festivals are held in the city, such as Way Out West and Metaltown.
Gothenburg is the name of several cities:
Usage examples of "gothenburg".
Of the three Gothenburg was the one that called most strongly, simply because that was where Alsa was.
It would now be four in the morning in Gothenburg, I calculated, and urgent or not, a barbaric hour to telephone her.
Swede at the Gothenburg printers was assigned to look after her while the magazine was produced.
All my instincts were screaming to me that Alsa was still in or near Gothenburg, and the idea of leaving Gothenburg to travel into another country felt badly wrong.
We wanted you in Gothenburg in the first place because you know the girl well.
I scarcely recognized her in her uniform, and also because, in the days when I knew her in Gothenburg, she had been reserved and a bit boring, though pretty.
In the end they reached Gothenburg, where a noted merchant of the place, who had a Scots name, but whose family had been Swedish for three centuries, assisted them to a change in their mode of life.
Otto Nordenskjold left Gothenburg on October 16, 1901, in the Antarctic, commanded by Captain C.
During his stay in Gothenburg he was interviewed, and he seems now to have a more sympathetic view of the Americans--the volunteers excepted--than former reports indicated.
In Sweden this was a broad strip, running from modern Gothenburg towards the northeast between the two great lakes to the Malar district and the Uppsala plain.
The smoke on the port bow hung over an eastbound freighter, and on the beam was a passenger ship, probably a ferry bound for Gothenburg, which had passed ahead of the squadron half an hour ago.
Malmo and Gothenburg whalers, homeward bound and in no hurry from the far south fisheries, quite often use it, above all when there is so much south in the winds off the Horn, like it is now.
He was an engineer from Gothenburg whose work had brought him to Stockholm.
During a walk rough a narrow lane near the Gothenburg dock, a bundle of papers falling from an attic window had knocked him down.
Your department warned us that you might need a little nursemaiding, which is why I made a special trip to Gothenburg to keep an eye on you.