Härryda Municipality (''Härryda kommun'') is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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 ...

in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of

Mölnlycke Mölnlycke is a small town nearby Greater Gothenburg, a locality and the seat of Härryda Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 17,499 inhabitants in 2019. The urban area stretches over two municipalities. Mölndal Municipality ...

, with about 19,000 inhabitants. Göteborg Landvetter Airport, Sweden's second-largest

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is situated near the locality of

Härryda Härryda () is a locality situated in Härryda Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 968 inhabitants in 2010. Despite its name it is not the seat of the municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division ...

, after which the municipality is named. The airport is named after Landvetter, the second biggest town in the municipality.

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 ...

has its head office in the Air Cargo Building on the grounds of the airport.

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. Härryda Municipality borders clockwise to the municipalities of Lerum, Bollebygd,

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Mölndal Mölndal () is the seat and administrative centre of Mölndal Municipality, located just south of Gothenburg on the west-coast of Sweden. About 40,000 of the municipality's 60,000 inhabitants live in Mölndal proper. Geography Mölndal is locate ...

, Gothenburg and Partille. The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the former municipalities of ''Björketorp'', ''Landvetter'' and ''Råda''. Until November 19, 2007 the municipality was the only one in Sweden lacking a

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, just using a logotype.www.harryda.se

Localities

*Hindås *

*Hällingsjö * Landvetter *

(seat) *Rävlanda

References

External links

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Härryda Municipality
- Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Harryda Municipality Municipalities of Västra Götaland County Metropolitan Gothenburg Gothenburg and Bohus