Landvetter is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 situated in Härryda Municipality

Härryda Municipality

Härryda Municipality is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Mölnlycke, with about 15,000 inhabitants....

, Västra Götaland County

Västra Götaland County

Västra Götaland County is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities . Its population of 1,550,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population...

, Sweden

Sweden

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. It had 6,680 inhabitants in 2005.

It is the second largest town in the municipality and has given its name to the international airport

Airport

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 Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport

Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport

Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport is an international airport serving the Gothenburg region in Sweden. With 4.3 million passengers in 2006 it is Sweden's second-largest airport...

, located 5 km east of Landvetter.

The name

Name

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 Landvetter is a combination of "land" (land) and "vittir", an old Swedish

Swedish language

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 name for a certain type of fire.

City Airline

City Airline

City Airline was a regional airline based in the Air Cargo Building on the grounds of Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport in Landvetter, Härryda Municipality, Sweden. It was privately owned and operated a medium-sized European network from its main base at Landvetter. The airline was wholly owned by...

 has its head office in the Air Cargo Building on the grounds of Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport

Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport

Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport is an international airport serving the Gothenburg region in Sweden. With 4.3 million passengers in 2006 it is Sweden's second-largest airport...

 in Landvetter. When Transwede Airways

Transwede Airways

Transwede Airways AB was a charter airline based at Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport in Landvetter, Härryda Municipality, near Gothenburg. Transwede operated flights on wet lease agreements from London City Airport, as well as charter flights. The company was owned by Braathens Aviation...

existed, its head office was on the airport property.