Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden 400 km from the capital, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Gothenburg set the women's long jump world record of 5.50 m in 28 August 1926 on August 28, 1926. It stood 11 months, until London, United Kingdom's 5.575 m on August 1, 1927. Wiki link