Filipstad

Filipstad is a locality and the seat of , , , with 10,644 inhabitants in 2019. Filipstad was granted city privileges in 1611 by Charles IX of Sweden, who named it after his son Duke Carl Philip.
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  • Type: Town with 6,330 residents
  • Description: locality and the seat of Filipstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “ᕕᓕᑉᔅᑕᑦ/filipstad”, “フィリップスタード”, and “フィリップスタッド”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Filipstad Church and Storbrohyttan.

Church
Photo: Beckstet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ruins
Photo: Beckstet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a ruins.

Filipstad

Latitude
59.7135° or 59° 42′ 49″ north
Longitude
14.168° or 14° 10′ 5″ east
Population
6,330
Elevation
137 metres (449 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SE FIL
Open location code
9FFPP579+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 448697022
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2715081
Wiki­data ID
Q847769
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Volapük—“Filipstad” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ֆիլիպստադ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Filipstad”
  • Bulgarian: “Филипстад”
  • Catalan: “Filipstad”
  • Cebuano: “Filipstad (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Filipstad”
  • Chinese: “菲利普斯塔德”
  • Croatian: “Filipstad”
  • Danish: “Filipstad”
  • Dutch: “Filipstad”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “vilipstat”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “ᕕᓕᑉᔅᑕᑦ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيليپستاد”
  • Esperanto: “Filipstad”
  • Faroese: “Filipstad”
  • Finnish: “Filipstad”
  • French: “Filipstad”
  • German: “Filipstad”
  • Greek: “Φίλιπσταντ”
  • Icelandic: “Filipstad”
  • Inuktitut: “ᕕᓕᑉᔅᑕᑦ”
  • Irish: “Filipstad”
  • Italian: “Filipstad”
  • Japanese: “フィリプスタッド”
  • Ladin: “Filipstad”
  • Lithuanian: “Filipstadas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Filipstad”
  • Northern Frisian: “Filipstad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Filipstad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Filipstad i Sverige”
  • Norwegian: “Filipstad”
  • Persian: “فیلیپستاد”
  • Polish: “Filipstad”
  • Portuguese: “Filipstad”
  • Romanian: “Filipstad”
  • Russian: “Филипстад”
  • Serbian: “Filipstad”
  • Serbian: “Филипстад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Filipstad”
  • Slovenian: “Filipstad”
  • Swedish: “Filipstad”
  • Tajik: “Filipstad”
  • Tajik: “Филипстад”
  • Turkish: “Filipstad”
  • Ukrainian: “Філіпстад”
  • Urdu: “فلپ اسٹاڈ”
  • Volapük: “Filipstad”

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