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Karlskrona Municipality

Karlskrona

Karlskrona, archaic spelling Carlskrona, is a city in in southern Sweden. While the city has 37,000 inhabitants, around 60,000 live in the municipality, Karlskrona kommun.
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  • Type: City with 35,200 residents
  • Description: urban area in Karlskrona Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Carlscrona”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karlskrona Naval Base and Marinmuseum.

Naval base
Photo: Nordelch, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is the largest naval base of the Swedish Navy. Located in Blekinge in southern Sweden, the base has close ties with the city of Karlskrona.

Museum
Photo: Jiří Komárek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a maritime museum located on island, in Karlskrona. It is Sweden's national naval museum, dedicated to the Swedish naval defense and preservation of the country's naval history.

Islet
Photo: Marinmuseum, CC BY 2.0.
is a small island to the east of in Karlskrona, Sweden. It is connected to the center of Karlskrona by the Bastionsgatan bridge. Formerly the property of the Navy, today it houses the National Naval Museum, one of Sweden's oldest founded in 1752, the Hyper Island educational complex, and several other historic buildings.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sjuhalla.

Village
is a locality situated in , , with 204 inhabitants in 2010.

Karlskrona

Latitude
56.1621° or 56° 9′ 44″ north
Longitude
15.5866° or 15° 35′ 12″ east
Population
35,200
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SE KAA
Open location code
9F8Q5H6P+RM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1599473536
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2701713
Wiki­data ID
Q25789
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Karlskrona” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Karlskrona”
  • Arabic: “كارلسكرونا”
  • Aragonese: “Karlskrona”
  • Armenian: “Կարլսկրունա”
  • Basque: “Karlskrona”
  • Belarusian: “Карлскруна”
  • Belarusian: “Карльскруна”
  • Bengali: “কার্লসকোনা”
  • Breton: “Karlskrona”
  • Bulgarian: “Карлскрона”
  • Bulgarian: “Карлскруна”
  • Catalan: “Karlskrona”
  • Cebuano: “Karlskrona (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Karlskrona”
  • Chechen: “Карлскруна”
  • Chinese: “Karlskrona”
  • Chinese: “卡尔斯克鲁纳”
  • Chinese: “卡爾斯克魯納市”
  • Chuvash: “Карлскруна”
  • Cornish: “Karlskrona”
  • Croatian: “Karlskrona”
  • Czech: “Karlskrona”
  • Danish: “Karlskrona”
  • Dutch: “Karlskrona”
  • Esperanto: “Karlskrona”
  • Estonian: “Karlskrona”
  • Faroese: “Karlskrona”
  • Finnish: “Karlskrona”
  • French: “Karlskrona”
  • Galician: “Karlskrona”
  • Georgian: “კარლსკრონა”
  • Georgian: “კარლსკრუნა”
  • German: “Karlskrona”
  • Greek: “Κάρλσκρονα”
  • Greek: “Κάρλσκρουνα”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્લસ્ક્રોના”
  • Hebrew: “קארלסקרונה”
  • Hebrew: “קרלסקרונה”
  • Hindi: “कार्ल्सक्रोना”
  • Hungarian: “Karlskrona”
  • Icelandic: “Karlskrona”
  • Indonesian: “Karlskrona”
  • Irish: “Karlskrona”
  • Italian: “Carlscrona”
  • Italian: “Karlskrona”
  • Japanese: “カールスクルーナ”
  • Japanese: “カールスクローナ”
  • Japanese: “カールスクローナの軍港”
  • Japanese: “カルスクローナ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Karlskrona”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್ಕ್ರೋನಾ”
  • Kashubian: “Karlskrona”
  • Kashubian: “Karlskróna”
  • Kazakh: “Карлскруна”
  • Korean: “칼스크로나”
  • Kotava: “Karlskrona”
  • Kurdish: “Karlskrona”
  • Ladin: “Karlskrona”
  • Latin: “Caroli Corona”
  • Latvian: “Karlskrūna”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlskrona”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlskruna”
  • Macedonian: “Карлскруна”
  • Maithili: “कार्ल्सक्रोना”
  • Malay: “Karlskrona”
  • Malayalam: “കാൾസ്‌ക്രോണ”
  • Maltese: “Karlskrona”
  • Marathi: “कार्लस्क्रोन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karlskrona”
  • Minangkabau: “Karlskrona”
  • Moksha: “Карлскруна”
  • Nepali: “कार्ल्सक्रोना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karlskrona”
  • Northern Sami: “Karlskrona”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karlskrona”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Karlskrona”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karlskrona by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karlskrona stad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karlskrona”
  • Norwegian: “Karlskrona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Karlskrona”
  • Ossetian: “Карлскрунæ”
  • Persian: “کارلسکرونا”
  • Persian: “کلسکرونا”
  • Polish: “Karlskrona”
  • Portuguese: “Karlskrona”
  • Portuguese: “R27”
  • Romanian: “Karlskrona”
  • Russian: “Карлскрона”
  • Russian: “Карлскроны”
  • Russian: “Карлскруна”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Karlskrona”
  • Serbian: “Karlskrona”
  • Serbian: “Карлскрона”
  • Serbian: “Карлскруна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karlskrona”
  • Sinhala: “කරිස්ක්රෝනා”
  • Slovak: “Karlskrona”
  • Slovenian: “Karlskrona”
  • Spanish: “Karlskrona”
  • Swahili: “Karlskrona”
  • Swedish: “Carlskrona”
  • Swedish: “Karlskrona”
  • Tamil: “கார்ளஸ்க்ரோனா”
  • Telugu: “కేల్స్క్రోన”
  • Thai: “คอลส์ครูนา”
  • Thai: “คาร์ลสกรูนา”
  • Turkish: “Karlskrona”
  • Ukrainian: “Карлскрона”
  • Ukrainian: “Карлскруна”
  • Urdu: “کارلسکرونا”
  • Uzbek: “Karlskruna”
  • Vietnamese: “Karlskrona”
  • Volapük: “Karlskrona”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karlskrona”
  • Welsh: “Karlskrona”
  • Western Frisian: “Karlskrona”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔斯克鲁纳”

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