Carei
Carei is a small town in the Crişana region of Romania, near the Hungarian border at the northwest. Traditionally the more famous and more urbanized nearby sister town of Mátészalka and capital of the former Szatmár county, which contained cities like…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 25,900 residents
- Description: city in Satu Mare County, Romania
- Also known as: “Careii”, “Careii Mare”, “Großkarol”, “Nagy Károly”, “Nagykaroly”, and “Nagykároly”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Károlyi Castle.
Károlyi Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Károlyi Castle is a Gothic Revival castle located in Carei, Satu Mare County, Romania. Originally built as a fortress around the 15th century, it was converted to a castle in 1794, undergoing further transformations during the 19th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Căpleni.
Carei
- Categories: municipality of Romania, border city, and locality
- Location: Satu Mare County, Crișana, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.6829° or 47° 40′ 59″ northLongitude
22.4695° or 22° 28′ 10″ eastPopulation
25,900Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)United Nations Location Code
RO CAROpen location code
8GV4MFM9+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 128555565OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yiddish—“Carei” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Carei”
- Armenian: “Կարեյ”
- Belarusian: “Карэй”
- Bulgarian: “Карей”
- Catalan: “Carei”
- Cebuano: “Municipiul Carei”
- Chinese: “卡雷”
- Croatian: “Carei”
- Czech: “Carei”
- Danish: “Carei”
- Dutch: “Carei”
- Esperanto: “Carei”
- Esperanto: “Grosskarol”
- Esperanto: “Nadjka:rojo”
- Esperanto: “Nagykároly”
- Esperanto: “Najkaroj”
- Estonian: “Carei”
- French: “Carei”
- French: “Nagykároly”
- German: “Carei”
- German: “Careii Mari”
- German: “Groß-Karol”
- German: “Großkarol”
- German: “Nagykaroly”
- German: “Nagykároly”
- Hebrew: “קאריי”
- Hungarian: “Nagykároly”
- Indonesian: “Carei”
- Irish: “Carei”
- Italian: “Carei”
- Italian: “Nagykároly”
- Japanese: “カレイ”
- Korean: “카레이”
- Latvian: “Karei”
- Malay: “Carei”
- Minangkabau: “Carei”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carei”
- Persian: “کره”
- Polish: “Carei”
- Portuguese: “Carei”
- Romanian: “Carei, Careii Mar”
- Romanian: “Carei, Satu Mare”
- Romanian: “Carei”
- Romanian: “Großkarol”
- Romanian: “Nagykároly”
- Russian: “Карей”
- Scots: “Carei”
- Serbian: “Carei”
- Serbian: “Karej”
- Serbian: “Кареј”
- Serbian: “Општина Кареј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Municipiu Carei, Satu Mare”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Municipiu Carei”
- Slovak: “Carei”
- Slovenian: “Carei”
- South Azerbaijani: “کره ،”
- Spanish: “Carei”
- Swedish: “Carei”
- Tajik: “Karej”
- Tajik: “Карей”
- Turkish: “Carei”
- Turkish: “Karolvar”
- Ukrainian: “Карей”
- Vietnamese: “Carei”
- Welsh: “Carei”
- Yiddish: “קראלי”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Carei”. Photo: Ruritanian, CC BY-SA 3.0.