Karasjok
Karasjok is a town in Finnmark in Northern Norway. It is the capital of the Sami people in Norway, and home to the Sámediggi, the Sami parliament.Photo: Mikenator, Public domain.
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
- Type: municipality of Norway with 2,630 residents
- Description: municipality in Finnmark, Norway
- Also known as: “5437”, “Kaarasjoki”, “Kárášjohka”, and “Karasjok Municipality”
- Neighbors: Alta, Inari, Kautokeino, Tana, and Utsjoki
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karasjok Church and Old Karasjok Church.
Karasjok Church
Church
Photo: Helge Høifødt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karasjok Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Karasjok Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Karasjok, which is on the Karasjohka river.
Old Karasjok Church
Church
Photo: RobertRSMN, CC BY 3.0.
Old Karasjok Church is a former parish church of the Church of Norway in Karasjok Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Karasjok, which is on the Karasjohka river, 12 kilometres west of the Norway-Finland border.
Karasjok
- Location: Finnmark, Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Karasjok” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Karasjok”
- Arabic: “كاراشوك”
- Armenian: “Կարասիոկ”
- Asturian: “conceyu de Karasjok (Noruega)”
- Asturian: “Karasjok kommune”
- Asturian: “Karasjok”
- Basque: “Karasjok”
- Bishnupriya: “কারাসজোহকা কারাসজোক”
- Bulgarian: “Карашьок”
- Catalan: “Kárášjohka”
- Catalan: “Karasjok”
- Cebuano: “Karasjok”
- Chinese: “Karasjok”
- Chinese: “卡拉绍克”
- Czech: “Karasjok”
- Danish: “Karasjok Kommune”
- Danish: “Karasjok”
- Dutch: “Karasjok”
- Esperanto: “Karasjok”
- Estonian: “Kárášjohka vald”
- Finnish: “Kaarasjoen kunta”
- Finnish: “Kaarasjoki”
- French: “Karasjok”
- German: “Gemeinde Karasjok”
- German: “Karasjok”
- Hungarian: “Kaarasjoki”
- Hungarian: “Kárášjohka”
- Hungarian: “Karasjok”
- Inari Sami: “Kárášjuuhâ”
- Inari Sami: “Kárášjuuvâ kieldâ”
- Inari Sami: “Kárášjuv kieldâ”
- Irish: “Karasjok”
- Italian: “Karasjok”
- Japanese: “カラショーク”
- Javanese: “Karasjok”
- Kalaallisut: “Kaarasjoki”
- Kildin Sami: “Ка̄рашёгк”
- Komi: “Карашйохка”
- Korean: “카라쇼크”
- Latin: “Karasjok”
- Limburgan: “Karasjok”
- Low German: “Kommun Karasjok”
- Malay: “Karasjok”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karasjok”
- Northern Sami: “Kárášjoga gielda”
- Northern Sami: “Kárášjohka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karasjok kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karasjok”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karasjok kommune”
- Norwegian: “Karasjok”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Karasjok”
- Persian: “کاراشوک”
- Polish: “Karasjok”
- Portuguese: “Karasjok”
- Romanian: “Comuna Karasjok”
- Russian: “Карасйок”
- Skolt Sami: “Karasjokk”
- Skolt Sami: “Karasjooǥǥ kåʹdd”
- Slovenian: “Karasjok”
- Southern Sami: “Karasjohke”
- Spanish: “Karasjok”
- Swahili: “Karasjok”
- Swedish: “Karasjoks kommun”
- Turkish: “Karasjok”
- Ukrainian: “Karasjok (комуна)”
- Ukrainian: “Карасйок”
- Ukrainian: “Карасьйок (комуна)”
- Ukrainian: “Карасьйок”
- Urdu: “کاراسجوک بلدیہ”
- Vietnamese: “Karasjok”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karasjok”
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