Karis
Karis is a town and former municipality in Finland. On January 1, 2009, it was consolidated with Ekenäs and Pohja to form the new municipality of Raseborg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,000 residents
- Description: former town and municipality of Finland, now part of Raseborg
- Also known as: “Karja” and “Karjaa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karis railway station and Karis Church.
Karis railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abc10, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Karis railway station is a railway station in the town of Raseborg in the Uusimaa region, Finland. The station is located along the track between Helsinki and Turku, about 87 km west from Helsinki Central railway station and serves as a connection point…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pohja and Fiskars.
Pohja
Town
Photo: TPG, Public domain.
Pohja is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Ekenäs and Karis to form the new town of Raseborg in 2009. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. Pohja is situated 8 km west of Karis.
Fiskars
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Raseborg is a municipality of 27,000 people covering a few towns and a large rural area in western Uusimaa. It is home to a medieval castle and large archipelagos. Fiskars is situated 10 km northwest of Karis.
Fagervik
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fagervik is a village, which is situated 10 km southeast of Karis.
Karis
- Categories: city, municipality of Finland, market town, former municipality of Finland, and locality
- Location: Raseborg, Raseborg, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.07049° or 60° 4′ 14″ northLongitude
23.663° or 23° 39′ 47″ eastPopulation
9,000Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)United Nations Location Code
FI KJAOpen location code
9GG53MC7+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 30969629OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Karis from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Mari—“Karis” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Karis”
- Cebuano: “Karis”
- Chinese: “卡里斯”
- Danish: “Karis”
- Danish: “Karjaa”
- Dutch: “Karis”
- Dutch: “Karjaa”
- Esperanto: “Karis”
- Estonian: “Karis”
- Estonian: “Karise linn”
- Estonian: “Karjaa linn”
- Estonian: “Karjaa”
- Finnish: “Karis”
- Finnish: “Karjaa”
- Finnish: “Karjaan kauppala”
- Finnish: “Karjaan kaupunki”
- Finnish: “Karjaan kunta”
- French: “Karis”
- French: “Karjaa”
- Galician: “Karis”
- German: “Karis”
- German: “Karjaa”
- Inari Sami: “Karjaa”
- Irish: “Karis”
- Italian: “Karis”
- Italian: “Karjaa”
- Japanese: “カリス”
- Korean: “카르야”
- Korean: “카리스”
- Northern Sami: “Karis”
- Northern Sami: “Karjaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karjaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karjaa”
- Norwegian: “Karis”
- Polish: “Karis”
- Polish: “Karjaa”
- Romanian: “Karis”
- Russian: “Карис”
- Russian: “Карьяа”
- Swedish: “Karis kommun”
- Swedish: “Karis köping”
- Swedish: “Karis stad”
- Swedish: “Karis”
- Swedish: “Karjaa”
- Turkish: “Karis”
- Ukrainian: “Каріс”
- Ukrainian: “Карйc”
- Urdu: “کاریس”
- Vietnamese: “Karis”
- Western Mari: “Карьяа”
- “Karis”
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