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Gothenburg

American  
[goth-uhn-burg, got-n-] / ˈgɒθ ənˌbɜrg, ˈgɒt n- /

noun

  1. Göteborg.


Gothenburg British  
/ ˈɡɒθənˌbɜːɡ /

noun

  1. the English name for Göteborg

"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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Malick Yalcouye, a £6m signing from Gothenburg, spent the past two years out on loan, first with Sturm Graz in Austria and then with Swansea City in the Championship.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

His parents are from Argentina, but they immigrated to Sweden and Mr. González was born in Gothenburg in 1978.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

The V-Dem Institute, based in Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, has been compiling the world’s largest dataset on democracy for more than a decade.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026

Jan Hedner, senior professor of pulmonary medicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, has played a leading role in the study.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

The express between Stockholm and Gothenburg, the two large cities of Sweden, barely makes 30 miles an hour.

From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various

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