Härlanda
city district area of Gothenburg Municipality
Härlanda is one of the 21 stadsdelsnämndsområden (roughly "city district committee areas") of Gothenburg Municipality in Sweden, situated to the east of the city centre. To the east of Härlanda lies Partille Municipality, and to the south Härryda Municipality. In Gothenburg Municipality it borders Örgryte to the west and Kortedala to the north, across the stream Säveån.
It is largely a middle-class, residential area and mostly consists of apartment blocks built before 1960.
Geography
Härlanda borough is composed of four officially defined residential districts:
Björkekärr, which is based on the traditional district with the same name
Härlanda, which consists of parts of the traditional districts Kålltorp and Vidkärr.
Kålltorp, which includes most of the traditional district with the same name.
Torpa, which consists of the traditional districts of Torpa, Fräntorp and parts of Vidkärr.
Demographics
Härlanda has approximately 20 000 inhabitants, divided into 11 100 households, therefore a large proportion of the households are considered as small. Over 800 of the inhabitants are foreign citizens born abroad, and a further 130 are foreign citizens but born in Sweden. Almost 1500 inhabitants of Härlanda are first generation immigrants.
“Härlanda” enters the record as city district area of Gothenburg Municipality. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Härlanda, city and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Härlanda” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Härlanda, city and district provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5963236. Authority coordinates are 57.718, 12.022. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1500.
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