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Hisingen is the fourth - largest island ___MASK90___ Sweden ( after Gotland , Öland and Orust ), with an area ___MASK90___ . In 2014 Statistics Sweden declared it to instead be the fifth largest island , under a definition which adds artificial canals to the possible bodies ___MASK90___ water surrounding an island . It has been noted that under this definition , all ___MASK90___ Götaland would be the country ' s largest island , rendering Hisingen instead the sixth largest . It forms part ___MASK90___ ___MASK54___ , Västra Götaland County , and is bordered by the Göta älv in the south and east , the Nordre älv in the north , and the Kattegat in the west . The northern part ___MASK90___ the city ___MASK90___ Gothenburg , with its harbours , industries and suburbs , is located on the island , which is divided between the two historical provinces ___MASK90___ Västergötland and Bohuslän . The Kattegat or Kattegatt is a sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the ___MASK47___ , the Danish straits islands ___MASK90___ Denmark to the south and the provinces ___MASK90___ Västergötland , Scania , Halland and Bohuslän in Sweden in the east . The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Danish Straits . The sea area is a continuation ___MASK90___ the Skagerrak and may be seen as a bay ___MASK90___ the Baltic Sea or the North Sea or , as in traditional Scandinavian usage , neither ___MASK90___ these . ___MASK54___ (" Göteborgs kommun " or " Göteborgs stad ") is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden . Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg . Bohuslän is a Swedish province in Götaland , on the northernmost part ___MASK90___ the country ' s west coast . It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast , Västergötland to the southeast , the Skagerrak arm ___MASK90___ the North Sea to the west , and the county ___MASK90___ Østfold , in Norway , to the north . ___MASK60___ is a historical and cultural region in ___MASK11___ Europe characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages . The Geats (, or ) ( Old English : " gatas " ; Old Norse : " gautar " ; Swedish : " götar " ), and sometimes " Goths ") were a ___MASK18___ Germanic tribe inhabiting what is now Götaland (" land ___MASK90___ the Geats ") in southern Sweden . The name ___MASK90___ the Geats also lives on in the Swedish provinces ___MASK90___ Västergötland and Östergötland , the Western and Eastern lands ___MASK90___ the Geats , and in many other toponyms . Orust is an island in western ___MASK70___ , and ___MASK70___ ' s third largest island . In 2014 Statistics ___MASK70___ declared it to instead be the fourth largest island , under a definition which adds artificial ___MASK80___ to the possible bodies ___MASK90___ water surrounding an island . It has been noted that under this definition , all ___MASK90___ Götaland would be the country ' s largest island , rendering Orust instead the fifth largest . The largest town on Orust is Henån , where approximately 1 , 800 inhabitants live . Orust is home to approximately 15 , 160 inhabitants in the winter and many more in the summer . ___MASK12___ ( older spellings include Gottland or Gothland ,), " Gutland " in the local dialect Gutnish , is a province , county , municipality , and diocese ___MASK90___ ___MASK70___ . It is ___MASK70___ ' s largest island . The province includes the small islands ___MASK90___ Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north , as well as the even smaller Karlsö Islands ( Lilla and Stora ) to the west . The population is 57 , 221 , ___MASK90___ which about 23 , 600 live in Visby , the main town . The island ___MASK90___ ___MASK12___ and the other areas ___MASK90___ the province ___MASK90___ ___MASK12___ make up less than one percent ___MASK90___ ___MASK70___ ' s total land area . ___MASK53___ , also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature , is one ___MASK90___ the 25 traditional non - administrative provinces ___MASK90___ Sweden (" landskap " in Swedish ), situated in the southwest ___MASK90___ Sweden . ___MASK10___ is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest ___MASK90___ the traditional provinces ___MASK90___ Sweden . ___MASK10___ has an area ___MASK90___ and is located in the Baltic Sea just off the coast ___MASK90___ Småland . The island has 25 , 000 inhabitants . It is separated from the mainland by the Kalmar Strait and connected to it by the 6 - km ___MASK10___ Bridge , which opened on 30 September 1972 . Götaland ( also " Gothia ", " Gothland ", " Gothenland ", " Gautland " or " Geatland ") is one ___MASK90___ three lands ___MASK90___ Sweden and comprises ten provinces . Geographically it is located in the south ___MASK90___ Sweden , bounded to the north by Svealand , with the deep woods ___MASK90___ Tiveden , Tylöskog and Kolmården marking the border . The Göta älv (" ___MASK6___ ___MASK90___ the Geats ") is a river that drains lake Vänern into the Kattegat , at the city ___MASK90___ Gothenburg , on the western coast ___MASK90___ Sweden . It was formed at the end ___MASK90___ the last glaciation , as an outflow channel from the Baltic Ice Lake to the ___MASK5___ and nowadays it has the largest drainage basin in Scandinavia . Tingstadstunneln ( Tingstad Tunnel ) is a motorway tunnel under the Göta älv , connecting Hisingen with ___MASK61___ Gothenburg . The tunnel was constructed with two parallel immersed tubes with three lanes ___MASK90___ traffic in each tube . It is part ___MASK90___ the E6 route linking Norway with south - west Sweden . Construction started on 17 January 1961 , and the tunnel was inaugurated at 11 : 30 am on 29 March 1968 . The tunnel has the lowest motorway elevation in Sweden , at 15 m ( 49 ft ) below sea level ( nearby Götatunneln is lower and designed like a motorway but not signposted as one ) . The tunnel has severe traffic congestion problems since several years , so therefore a new tunnel is built a little farther north , Marieholmstunneln , to be opened in 2017 . ___MASK42___ is a county or " län " on the western coast ___MASK90___ ___MASK70___ . ___MASK1___ is the second - largest city in Sweden and the fifth - largest in the Nordic countries . Situated by the Kattegat , on the west coast ___MASK90___ Sweden , the city has a population ___MASK90___ approximately 550 , 000 in the urban area and 990 , 000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area . Vänern is the largest lake in ___MASK70___ , the largest lake in the ___MASK48___ and the third - largest lake entirely in Europe after Ladoga and Onega in Russia . It is located in the provinces ___MASK90___ Västergötland , Dalsland , and Värmland in the southwest ___MASK90___ the country . Statistics ___MASK70___ is the Swedish government agency responsible for producing official statistics regarding ___MASK70___ . National statistics in ___MASK70___ date back to 1686 when the parishes ___MASK90___ the Church ___MASK90___ ___MASK70___ were ordered to start keeping records on the population . SCB ' s predecessor , the Tabellverket (" office ___MASK90___ tables "), was set up in 1749 , and the current name was adopted in 1858 . The Nordic countries or Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in ___MASK11___ Europe and the North Atlantic , where they are most commonly known as Norden ( lit ., " The North "). They consist of Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway , and Sweden , including their associated territories ( Greenland , the Faroe Islands , and the Åland Islands ). An island or isle is any piece ___MASK90___ sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping ___MASK90___ geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK55___ . The Baltic Ice Lake is a name given by geologists to a ___MASK75___ lake that gradually formed in the Baltic Sea basin as glaciation retreated from that region at the end ___MASK90___ the Pleistocene . The lake , dated to 12 , 600 - 10 , 300 BP , is roughly contemporaneous with the three Pleistocene Blytt - Sernander periods . The lake followed a period ___MASK90___ massive glaciation in the region , which followed the end ___MASK90___ the Eemian Sea . The post - glacial Yoldia Sea was immediately subsequent to the Baltic Ice Lake . ___MASK70___ , officially the Kingdom ___MASK90___ ___MASK70___ ( Swedish : ), is a Scandinavian country in ___MASK11___ Europe . It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east , and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge - tunnel across the Öresund . At , ___MASK70___ is the third - largest country in the European Union by area , with a total population ___MASK90___ 10 . 0 million . ___MASK70___ consequently has a low population density ___MASK90___ , with the highest concentration in the southern half ___MASK90___ the country . Approximately 85 % ___MASK90___ the population lives in urban areas . A drainage ___MASK88___ or catchment ___MASK88___ is an extent or an area ___MASK90___ land where all surface water from rain , melting snow , or ice converges to a single point at a lower elevation , usually the exit ___MASK90___ the ___MASK88___ , where the waters join another body ___MASK90___ water , such as a river , lake , reservoir , estuary , wetland , sea , or ocean . Thus if a tributary stream joins a brook that in turn joins a small river which is a tributary ___MASK90___ a larger river , there is a series ___MASK90___ successively larger ( and lower elevation ) drainage basins . For instance , the Missouri and Ohio rivers are within their own drainage basins and also within the drainage ___MASK88___ ___MASK90___ the Mississippi River .