query: country west link
supports: Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, the city has a population of approximately 550,000 in the urban area and 990,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Stockholm (or ) is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 932,917 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area. The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by a Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the capital of Stockholm County. Universeum is a public science centre and museum in Gothenburg, Sweden that opened in 2001. It is a part of "Evenemangsstråket", the "thoroughfare of events"  close to Korsvägen and Skånegatan  which includes sights of interest like Scandinavium, Ullevi, Svenska Mässan (Swedish Exhibition Centre), Liseberg and the Museum of World Culture. Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened in 1923. It is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandinavia, attracting about three million visitors annually. Among the noteworthy attractions is the wooden roller coaster Balder, twice (2003 and 2005) voted as the "Best Wooden Tracked Roller Coaster" in the world in a major international poll. The park itself has also been chosen as one of the top ten amusement parks in the world (2005) by "Forbes" magazine. Korsvägen (literary the cross road) is a public square and transport hub in the events district of Gothenburg, Sweden. Many important event venues and visitor attractions are located on or near Korsvägen, including the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre and Gothia Towers hotel, the Universeum science centre, the Museum of World Culture, Scandinavium and the amusement park Liseberg. Scandinavium is an indoor arena located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Construction on Scandinavium began in 1969 after decades of setbacks, and was inaugurated on 18 May 1971. The national Museum of World Culture opened in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004. Its aim is to interpret the subject of world culture in an interdisciplinary way. The museum is situated next to the Universeum science centre and the amusement park Liseberg, and close to Korsvägen. 
  ""The museum interprets the concept of world culture in a dynamic and open-ended manner. On the one hand, various cultures are incorporating impulses from each other and becoming more alike. On the other hand, local, national, ethnic and gender differences are shaping much of that process. World culture is not only about communication, reciprocity, and interdependence, but the specificity, concretion and uniqueness of each and every individual."" (From the background info on the museums homepage.) Jernhusen AB owns and runs railway stations and other buildings attached to the railway network in Sweden. The company was formed in January 2001 as part of the break-up of Statens Järnvägar, the former national railway. It remains wholly owned by the Swedish government. The Nils Ericson Terminal is a major bus terminus in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is placed in the city centre just next to Gothenburg Central Station (Centralstationen), and across the street from the main Nordstan shopping centre. The main street and most hotels are within walking distance from the terminal. Stockholm Central Station is the largest railway station in Sweden. It is situated in the district of Norrmalm at Vasagatan/Central Plan. Opened July 18, 1871, it has over 200,000 visitors daily, of which about 170,000 are travellers (105,000 with commuter trains, 25,000 with Arlanda Express and 40,000 with other trains). The Nordic countries or Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic, where they are most commonly known as Norden (lit., "The North"). They consist of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands). Gothenburg Central Station is the main railway station of Gothenburg, Sweden. The station serves 27 million passengers per year, making it the second largest railway station in Sweden after Stockholm Central Station. The station opened on October 4, 1858. The station is situated in the city of Gothenburg, right by Drottningtorget. The Gothenburg Central Station, Centralhuset and Nils Ericson Terminalen are a part of Resecentrum, Göteborg. Gothenburg Central Station is owned and administered by Jernhusen. Västlänken ( English : the West link ) is a planned railway tunnel under central Gothenburg . The purpose of the project is to increase capacity and reduce travel times on the Gothenburg network by changing the Gothenburg Central Station from a terminus to an underground transit station . Two new underground transit stations , Haga and Korsvägen , will also be built . Of the 920,000 people ( 2009 figure ) who live in Greater Gothenburg , 410,000 people live outside the Gothenburg urban area . Approximately 250,000 people in the region commute to or from Gothenburg Municipality . The majority of these people use cars for transportation and the roads in the region are overloaded . Better rail communications to different parts of Gothenburg and better connections to trams would improve the situation . There is a political wish to attract more public transport users . Significant sums of money have been -- and are being -- invested in rail infrastructure in the Stockholm region and the Malmö region , more than 20 bn SEK each during 1990 - 2010 , but much less in the Gothenburg region . The largest improvement according to the prosed plan would be for people who commute from places along the railways to Kungsbacka / Borås and who work or study near Haga station , where a large part of the University of Gothenburg is located . 15 minutes could be saved per journey . Time would be also saved on other journeys , for example around 5 minutes from Alingsås to Sahlgrenska or Chalmers . The Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre is an exhibition and convention centre in Gothenburg, Sweden and one of Scandinavia's largest assembly points, which attracts around 1.8 million visitors a year. It is one of Europe's largest, fully integrated hotel and congress facilities, owned and run by a nonprofit foundation, the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre Foundation. The Kattegat or Kattegatt is a sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark to the south and the provinces of Västergötland, Scania, Halland and Bohuslän in Sweden in the east. The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Danish Straits. The sea area is a continuation of the Skagerrak and may be seen as a bay of the Baltic Sea or the North Sea or, as in traditional Scandinavian usage, neither of these.
candidates: denmark faroe islands finland sweden world
answer: sweden