Trollhättan (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtrɔ̂lːˌhɛtːan] (listen)) is a city and the seat of Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, with 59,210 inhabitants in 2021. It is located 75 km north of Sweden's second-largest city, Gothenburg.

Trollhättan was granted city rights (which today have no legal effect) in 1916 at which time it had about 15,000 inhabitants, now grown to 59,058. Trollhättan was founded on the river Göta älv, at the Trollhättan Falls. The site was first mentioned in literature from 1413. Trollhättan had a strategic significance on the road between Västergötland and Norway. It was also of a commercial and political significance for shipping to and from Vänern.

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