Karesuando
Karesuando is the northernmost village in Sweden, in the municipality of Kiruna. Across the Muoniojoki river is the Finnish half of the village, Karesuvanto.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Inlandsvägen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Karl Brodowsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 303 residents
- Description: urban area in Kiruna Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Garasavvon”, “Gárasavvon”, “Kaaresuvanto”, “Karesuanto”, and “Karesuvanto”
- Postal code: 980 16
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karesuando Church.
Karesuando Church
Church
Photo: Niera, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Karesuando Church is a wooden church building in Karesuando, Sweden. Belonging to the Karesuando Parish of the Church of Sweden. It was inaugurated on 3 December 1905 by Bishop Olof Bergqvist of the Diocese of Luleå, replacing an older church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karesuvanto.
Karesuvanto
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Karesuvanto is a village in Enontekiö in Finnish Lapland. This is the northernmost border crossing from Sweden by car. Tarvantovaara Wilderness Area is nearby.
Karesuando
- Categories: urban area in Sweden, border city, and locality
- Location: Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
68.4405° or 68° 26′ 26″ northLongitude
22.4743° or 22° 28′ 28″ eastPopulation
303Elevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)Inception
<1885Open location code
9GW4CFRF+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 112229670OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Tornedalen Finnish—“Karesuando” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Karesuvanto”
- Catalan: “Karesuando”
- Chinese: “Karesuando”
- Chinese: “卡雷苏安多”
- Danish: “Karesuando”
- Dutch: “Karesuando”
- Esperanto: “Karesuando”
- Finnish: “Gárasavvon”
- Finnish: “Kaaresuvanto”
- Finnish: “Karesuando”
- Finnish: “Karesuanto”
- Finnish: “Karesuvanto”
- French: “Karesuando”
- German: “Karesuando”
- Hebrew: “קרסואנדו”
- Irish: “Karesuando”
- Italian: “Karesuando”
- Japanese: “カレスアンド”
- Ladin: “Karesuando”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karesuando”
- Northern Sami: “Gárasavvon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karesuando”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karesuando”
- Norwegian: “Karesuando”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Karesuando”
- Persian: “کارسواندو”
- Polish: “Karesuando”
- Portuguese: “Karesuando”
- Russian: “Каресуандо”
- Slovenian: “Karesuando”
- Spanish: “Karesuando”
- Swedish: “Karesuando”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Karesuanto”
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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 “Karesuando”. Photo: Karl Brodowsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.