Country Sweden Municipality Ale Municipality Area 3.61 km² Population 5,798 (31 Dec 2010) | County Västra Götaland County Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Saturday 1:07 PM | |
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Province Västergötland
and Bohuslän Weather 10°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 93% Humidity | ||
Surte is a locality situated in Ale Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 5,798 inhabitants in 2010. Surte Church is in Surte.
Map of Surte, Sweden
It is a located some 15 kilometers north of Gothenburg.
Surte was the hometown of Alexander Samuelson. Although he was not the designer, he was the man named on the 1915 design patent for the legendary contour Coca-Cola bottle.
The international Grand Master of chess Gideon Ståhlberg, one of the world's strongest players in the 1940s, was born and is buried in Surte.
Surte is home to the bandy club Surte BK. They built one of the first indoor bandy arenas in Sweden (and subsequently in the world), which was the first in Götaland.
References
Surte Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA