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Gävle

American  
[yeyv-le] / ˈjeɪv lɛ /

noun

  1. a seaport in E Sweden.


Gävle British  
/ ˈjɛːvlə /

noun

  1. a port in E Sweden, on an inlet of the Gulf of Bothnia. Pop: 92 025 (2004 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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His friend Kassandra Fritz, an 18-year-old natural sciences student, says she has driven to Uppsala from her home in Gävle, two hours north, to "have fun and meet new people".

From BBC ● May 3, 2025

Sofia Wikman, an associate professor in criminology at Gävle University and former news journalist, suggests that Covid-19 may also have had an impact.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2022

First: the Gävle Goat is a giant straw statue of a goat erected every Christmas in the Swedish town of Gävle.

From The Verge ● Dec. 17, 2021

Backstrom addresses the crowd with a microphone in hand both in Gävle and in Valbo the next day.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2018

Winroth grew up in Gävle, Sweden, a port city two hours north of Stockholm.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016

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