Västerås

American  

[ves-tuhr-aws] / ˌvɛs tərˈɔs /

noun

1. a city in central Sweden.

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Västerås British  

/ vɛstərˈoːs /

noun

1. a city in central Sweden, on Lake Mälaren: Sweden's largest inland port; site of several national parliaments in the 16th century. Pop: 130 960 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

“It’s definitely attractive to be in America right now,” Emma Nehrenheim, Northvolt’s chief environmental officer, said in an interview last month in Vasteras.

From New York Times

The company develops manufacturing techniques at its complex in Vasteras.

From New York Times

That concern is the main reason some European leaders, including Germany’s second highest ranking official, Robert Habeck, have beaten a path to Vasteras, a city about 60 miles from Stockholm that is best known for a Viking burial mound and a Gothic cathedral.

From New York Times

During the Cold War the vast caverns beneath the Swedish city of Västerås held a stockpile of oil totalling 300,000 cubic metres.

From BBC

In the case of Västerås, warmth from the caverns will be sent via heat exchangers to a district heating network, which supplies 98% of the households in the city of 130,000 people.

From BBC