Landvetter is a locality situated in Härryda Municipality,

Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County () is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of S ...

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. It had 7,152 inhabitants in 2010. It is the second largest town in the municipality and has given its name to the international

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

Göteborg Landvetter Airport, located 5 km east of Landvetter. The

name A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A person ...

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

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

name for a certain type of fire.

City Airline City Airline AB was a regional airline based in the Air Cargo Building on the grounds of Göteborg Landvetter Airport in Landvetter, Härryda Municipality, Sweden. It was privately owned and operated a medium-sized European network from its ma ...

had its head office in the Air Cargo Building on the grounds of Göteborg Landvetter Airport in Landvetter. When

Transwede Airways Transwede Airways AB (later Braathens Sverige AB), was a Swedish charter and later also scheduled airline operating between 1985 and 1998. Based at Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Transwede initially flew Sud Aviation Caravelles, and from 1987 also ...

existed, its head office was on the airport property.Home
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. Retrieved on 7 December 2010. "Transwede Airways I P.O. Box 2011 SE-438 11 Landvetter Sweden".

Sports

Landvetter IS Landvetter IS is a Swedish football club located in Landvetter, in Västra Götaland County. Background Landvetter IS currently plays in Division 2 Göteborg B which is the sixth fifth of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Lan ...

and at least a dozen other sports clubs are located in Landvetter.

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Populated places in Härryda Municipality {{VästraGötaland-geo-stub