Landvetter is a

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...

situated in

Härryda Municipality Härryda Municipality (''Härryda kommun'') is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Mölnlycke, with about 19,000 inhabitants. Göteborg Landvetter Airport, Sweden's second-largest airpo ...

Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) 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 ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. 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 air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

Göteborg Landvetter Airport Göteborg Landvetter Airport () is an international airport serving the Gothenburg (Swedish: ''Göteborg'') region in Sweden. With just over 6.8 million passengers in 2018 it is Sweden's second-largest airport after Stockholm–Arlanda. Landvette ...

, 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 personal ...

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

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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 main ...

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

Transwede Airways Transwede Airways 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 McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. Most c ...

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

The following sports clubs are located in Landvetter: *

Landvetter IS Landvetter IS is a Swedish football club located in Landvetter. 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 Landevi IP in Landvetter. The c ...

*and at least a dozen others

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Populated places in Västra Götaland County Populated places in Härryda Municipality {{VästraGötaland-geo-stub