Kristiansand

Kristiansand is a city located within in county, . The city is the administrative centre of both Kristiansand Municipality and Agder county.
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  • Type: Locality with 117,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kristiansand Municipality, Norway
  • Also known as: “Christiansand” and “Kristiansand Sør”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kristiansand Railway Station and Kilden Performing Arts Centre.

Railway station
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Kristiansand Station is a railway station located in the centre of the city of Kristiansand in in county, . The station, located along the Sørlandet Line, is served by regional trains to and Stavanger.

Arts center
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is a theater and concert hall on in Kristiansand, . It houses Kilden Teater, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Kilden Opera and Kilden Culture Venue in a joint project never previously embarked upon.

Church
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is a cathedral of the Church of Norway in in county, . It is located in the area in the central part of the city of Kristiansand.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vågsbygd and Lund.

Suburb
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is a borough and district in the city of Kristiansand which lies in in county, . It is the largest borough and district in Kristiansand. is situated 4 km southwest of Kristiansand.

Suburb
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is a borough and district in the city of Kristiansand which lies in in county, . It is the second largest borough in the city after .

Suburb
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is a borough in the city of Kristiansand which lies in in county, . The borough has a population of about 16,000 people and is the second least populated borough in Kristiansand.

Kristiansand

Latitude
58.1467° or 58° 8′ 48″ north
Longitude
7.9956° or 7° 59′ 44″ east
Population
117,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
KRS
United Nations Location Code
NO KRS
Open location code
9FC94XWW+M6
Geo­Names ID
3149318
Wiki­data ID
Q26772254
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Uzbek—“Kristiansand” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ክርስቲያንሳንድ”
  • Arabic: “كريستيانساند”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kristiansand”
  • Belarusian: “Крысціянсан”
  • Bengali: “ক্রিস্টিয়ানসান্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Кристиансанд”
  • Cebuano: “Kristiansand (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kristiansand”
  • Chinese: “克里斯蒂安桑”
  • Danish: “Kristiansand”
  • Dutch: “Kristiansand”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كريستيانساند”
  • Estonian: “Kristiansand”
  • Faroese: “Kristiansand”
  • Finnish: “Kristiansand”
  • French: “Kristiansand”
  • German: “Kristiansand”
  • Hausa: “Kristiansand”
  • Hebrew: “כריסטיאנסנד”
  • Hindi: “क्रिस्टियनसांड”
  • Hungarian: “Kristiansand”
  • Indonesian: “Kristiansand”
  • Italian: “Kristiansand”
  • Japanese: “クリスティアンサンド”
  • Javanese: “Kristiansand”
  • Kazakh: “Кристиансанн”
  • Kirghiz: “Кристиансанн”
  • Latin: “Christiani munitio”
  • Latvian: “Krisjānsanna”
  • Latvian: “Kristiansand”
  • Latvian: “Kristiansanna”
  • Malay: “Kristiansand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kristiansand”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kristiansand”
  • Norwegian: “Kristiansand S”
  • Norwegian: “Kristiansand”
  • Oromo: “Kristiansand”
  • Ossetian: “Кристиансанн”
  • Panjabi: “ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਿਆਨਸੈਂਡ”
  • Persian: “کریستیانسند”
  • Polish: “Kristiansand”
  • Portuguese: “Kristiansand”
  • Pushto: “کریستیانسند”
  • Russian: “Кристиансанн”
  • Somali: “Kristiansand”
  • Spanish: “Kristiansand”
  • Swahili: “Kristiansand”
  • Swedish: “Kristiansand”
  • Tajik: “Кристиансанн”
  • Tatar: “Кристиансанн”
  • Turkish: “Kristiansand”
  • Urdu: “کریستیانسینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Kristiansand”
  • “Kristiansand”

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