Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a city in southern , best known for its UNESCO World Heritage listed walled city. It can be visited comfortably as a day trip. Among board game enthusiasts, the city may ring a bell as the inspiration for the 2000 German board game of the same name.
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  • Type: Town with 46,200 residents
  • Description: French commune in Aude, Occitania
  • Also known as: “Carcasonne”, “Carcassonne (Aude)”, “Carcassonne-Cité”, “Καρκασόν”, and “كاركاسون”
  • Postal code: 11000

Places of Interest

Highlights: Carcassonne station and Carcassonne Cathedral.

Railway station
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Carcassonne is a railway station in Carcassonne…

Church
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is a cathedral and designated national monument in Carcassonne, .

Church
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The is a Roman…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cité de Carcassonne.

Neighborhood
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The is a medieval citadel located…

Carcassonne

Latitude
43.213° or 43° 12′ 47″ north
Longitude
2.3491° or 2° 20′ 57″ east
Population
46,200
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
IATA airport code
CCF
UN/LOCODE
FR CCF
Open location code
8FM4687X+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691834
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3028641
Wiki­data ID
Q6582
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Carcassonne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Carcassonne”
  • Albanian: “Karkasona”
  • Arabic: “قرقسونة”
  • Arabic: “قرقشونة”
  • Aragonese: “Carcasona”
  • Armenian: “Կարկասոն”
  • Arpitan: “Carcassonne”
  • Asturian: “Carcassonne”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karkason”
  • Bambara: “Carcassonne”
  • Basque: “Carcasona”
  • Bavarian: “Carcassonne”
  • Belarusian: “Каркасон”
  • Breton: “Carcassona”
  • Breton: “Carcassonne”
  • Bulgarian: “Каркасон”
  • Cajun French: “Carcassonne”
  • Catalan: “Carcassona”
  • Cebuano: “Carcassonne”
  • Chechen: “КагӀкасон”
  • Chinese: “卡尔卡松”
  • Chinese: “卡爾卡松”
  • Chuvash: “Каркасон”
  • Corsican: “Carcassonne”
  • Croatian: “Carcassonne”
  • Czech: “Carcassonne”
  • Danish: “Carcassonne”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Carcassonne”
  • Dutch: “Carcassonne”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قرقشونه”
  • Esperanto: “Karkasuno”
  • Estonian: “Carcassonne”
  • Faroese: “Carcassonne”
  • Finnish: “Carcassonne”
  • French: “Carcassonne”
  • Friulian: “Carcassonne”
  • Galician: “Carcasona”
  • Georgian: “კარკასონი”
  • German: “Carcassonne”
  • Greek: “Καρκασσόν”
  • Hebrew: “קרקסון”
  • Hindi: “कारकैसन”
  • Hungarian: “Carcassonne”
  • Icelandic: “Carcassonne”
  • Ido: “Carcassonne”
  • Indonesian: “Carcassonne”
  • Interlingua: “Carcassonne”
  • Interlingue: “Carcassonne”
  • Irish: “Carcassonne”
  • Italian: “Carcassonne”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Carcassonne”
  • Japanese: “カルカソンヌ”
  • Jèrriais: “Carcassonne”
  • Kabyle: “Carcassonne”
  • Kalaallisut: “Carcassonne”
  • Kazakh: “Каркассонн”
  • Kirghiz: “Каркасон”
  • Kongo: “Carcassonne”
  • Korean: “카르카손”
  • Kotava: “Carcassonne”
  • Kurdish: “Carcassonne”
  • Ladin: “Carcassonne”
  • Latin: “Carcaso”
  • Latvian: “Karkasona”
  • Ligurian: “Carcassonne”
  • Limburgan: “Carcassonne”
  • Lithuanian: “Karkasonas”
  • Lombard: “Carcassonne”
  • Low German: “Carcassonne”
  • Luxembourgish: “Carcassonne”
  • Macedonian: “Каркасон”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Carcassonne”
  • Malagasy: “Carcassonne”
  • Malay: “Carcassonne”
  • Maltese: “Carcassonne”
  • Mazanderani: “کارکاسون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carcassonne”
  • Minangkabau: “Carcassonne”
  • Neapolitan: “Carcassonne”
  • Northern Frisian: “Carcassonne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carcassonne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carcassonne”
  • Norwegian: “Carcassonne”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Carcassona”
  • Ossetian: “Каркасон”
  • Papiamento: “Carcassonne”
  • Persian: “کارکاسون”
  • Picard: “Carcassonne”
  • Piemontese: “Carcassonne”
  • Polish: “Carcassonne”
  • Pontic: “Καρκασσόν”
  • Portuguese: “Carcassona”
  • Portuguese: “Carcassonne”
  • Prussian: “Carcassonne”
  • Romagnol: “Carcassonne”
  • Romanian: “Carcassonne”
  • Romansh: “Carcassonne”
  • Russian: “Каркасон”
  • Sardinian: “Carcassonne”
  • Scots: “Carcassonne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Carcassonne”
  • Serbian: “Carcassonne”
  • Serbian: “Каркасон”
  • Serbian: “Каркасона”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carcassonne”
  • Sicilian: “Carcassonne”
  • Silesian: “Carcassonne”
  • Slovak: “Carcassonne”
  • Slovenian: “Carcassonne”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارکاسون”
  • Spanish: “Carcasona”
  • Swahili: “Carcassonne”
  • Swedish: “Carcassonne”
  • Swiss German: “Carcassonne”
  • Thai: “การ์กาซอน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Carcassonne”
  • Tumbuka: “Carcassonne”
  • Turkish: “Carcassonne”
  • Ukrainian: “Каркассонн”
  • Urdu: “قرقشونہ”
  • Urdu: “کاغکاسون”
  • Uzbek: “Carcassonne”
  • Venetian: “Carcassonne”
  • Vietnamese: “Carcassonne”
  • Vlaams: “Carcassonne”
  • Volapük: “Carcassonne”
  • Walloon: “Carcassonne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Carcassonne”
  • Welsh: “Carcassonne”
  • Wolof: “Carcassonne”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔卡松”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡卡城”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡卡桑”
  • Zulu: “Carcassonne”
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