Gottsunda, is a suburb

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 of Uppsala

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, Sweden

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. In 2007, it had 9 474 inhabitants of whom 4 610 (48,7%) had a foreign

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 background. The name is derived form the farm Gottsunda, and Gutasund or Guttasund is mentioned in sources as far back as 1304. The majority of present buildings were built as part of the so called Million Programme

Million Programme

The Million Programme is the common name for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to make sure everyone could have a home at a reasonable price. The aim of the programme was to build a million new dwellings in a...

 in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Swedish botanist Carl von Linné is known to have made excursions to Gottsunda with his students during the 18th century.