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…
- Type: City with 25,900 residents
- Description: city in Satu Mare County, Romania
- Also known as: “Carei, Careii Mar”, “Carei, Satu Mare”, “Careii”, “Careii Mare”, “Careii Mari”, “Grosskarol”, “Nadjka:rojo”, “Nagy Károly”, “Nagykaroly”, and “Najkaroj”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Károlyi Castle and Sinagoga din Carei.
Károlyi Castle
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Căpleni.
Carei
- Categories: municipality of Romania, border city, and locality
- Location: Municipiul Carei, Satu Mare County, Crișana, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
47.6829° or 47° 40′ 59″ north
Longitude
22.4695° or 22° 28′ 10″ east
Population
25,900
Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)
UN/LOCODE
RO CAR
Open location code
8GV4MFM9+5R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- Estonian: “Carei”
- French: “Carei”
- German: “Carei”
- German: “Groß-Karol”
- German: “Großkarol”
- Hebrew: “קאריי”
- Hungarian: “Nagykároly”
- Indonesian: “Carei”
- Irish: “Carei”
- Italian: “Carei”
- Japanese: “カレイ”
- Korean: “카레이”
- Latvian: “Karei”
- Malay: “Carei”
- Minangkabau: “Carei”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carei”
- Persian: “کره”
- Polish: “Carei”
- Portuguese: “Carei”
- Romanian: “Carei”
- Russian: “Карей”
- Scots: “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: “Karolvar”
- Ukrainian: “Карей”
- Urdu: “کاری”
- Vietnamese: “Carei”
- Welsh: “Carei”
- Yiddish: “קראלי”
- “Carei”
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