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Some 70 per cent of industry and the population of Scandinavia fall within a radius of 500 km. The city hosts the Gothia Cup, the world's largest youth football tournament, and the Göteborg Basketball Festival, Europe's largest youth basketball tournament, alongside some of the largest annual events in Scandinavia. It has been arranged annually since 2004, taking place at the Frihamnen venue. Gothenburg harbour is the largest port in Scandinavia with a cargo turnover of 36.9 million tonnes per year in 2004. . Gothenburg is easily reachable from Stockholm with several flights per day that take about 50 minutes, a 3-hour express train ride, or by car in about 4.5 hours. The biggest market hall in Gothenburg, the Saluhallen is home to around forty stalls that specialise in both local delicacies and global cuisine! [169], Gothenburg became a city municipality with an elected city council when the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863. [74] The Gothenburg city hall is in the Beaux-Arts architectural style. The archipelago of Gothenburg consists of rough, barren rocks and cliffs, which also is typical for the coast of Bohuslän. The University of Gothenburg has about 38,000 students and is one of the largest universities in Scandinavia,[178] and one of the most versatile in Sweden. Fancy a game? Gothenburg, or Göteborg, on Sweden’s west coast, is second in population only to the capital, Stockholm. Detta var vad som beslutades i Lissabon och i, bab.la - Online dictionaries, vocabulary, conjugation, grammar. [190], The Swedish company Stena Line operates between Gothenburg/Frederikshavn in Denmark and Gothenburg/Kiel in Germany. Gothenburg has a warm-summer humid continental climate using the 0 °C isotherm (Köppen Dfb) and an oceanic climate using the -3 °C isotherm (Köppen Cfb) according to the Köppen climate classification. A varied amateur and professional sports clubs scene exists. 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