Alster
Alster is a locality situated in Karlstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 586 inhabitants in 2010. Alster is the birthplace of poet Gustaf Fröding.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 755 residents
- Description: urban area in Karlstad Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Alster, Sweden”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alsters herrgård and Frödingstenen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Välsviken and Kronoparken.
Edsgatan and Långenäs
Hamlet
Photo: I99pema, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Edsgatan and Långenäs is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Alster.
Alster
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Karlstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.39812° or 59° 23′ 53″ northLongitude
13.60843° or 13° 36′ 30″ eastPopulation
755Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)Open location code
9FFM9JX5+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 367326156OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2726416Wikidata ID
Q1923270
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Alster” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألستر”
- Bavarian: “Alster”
- Cebuano: “Alster”
- Chinese: “Alster”
- Chinese: “阿尔斯特”
- Danish: “Alster”
- Dutch: “Alster”
- Finnish: “Alster (Karlstad)”
- Finnish: “Alster”
- French: “Alster”
- German: “Alster”
- Irish: “Alster”
- Italian: “Alster”
- Ladin: “Alster”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alster”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alster”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alster i Sverige”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alster”
- Norwegian: “Alster”
- Persian: “الستر، سوئد”
- Polish: “Alster”
- Slovenian: “Alster”
- Swedish: “Alster”
- Swedish: “Alsters Bruk”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Galleriet and Hoppdanslidens lekplats.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alster”. Photo: SiriusA, CC BY 3.0.