Baden-Württemberg
Rhine-Neckar
Karlsruhe Region

Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe is a city on the Rhine in in . It is in the north of the Black Forest, close to the French border. Karlsruhe is famous in Germany for both hosting two federal courts and being a major hub for science and technology.
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  • Type: City with 284,000 residents
  • Description: city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Also known as: “Carlsruhe” and “KA”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wildparkstadion and Karlsruhe Palace.

Stadium
Photo: Sven Scharr, CC BY 3.0.
, currently known as BBBank Wildpark for sponsorship reasons, is a football located in Karlsruhe, Germany. It is the home of the football club Karlsruher SC.

Castle
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
was built in 1715 for Margrave Charles III William of Baden-Durlach after a dispute with the citizens of his previous capital, .

Park
Photo: Root66, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a city garden with a zoo in the southwest of Karlsruhe, Germany. It also encompasses the outer area; Tierpark Oberwald in the southeast of the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mühlburg.

Suburb
Photo: Baden-Paul, CC0.
is a district of Karlsruhe, . The district is further divided into Alt-Mühlburg, Weingärtensiedlung, Rheinhafen and Mühlburger Feld.

Karlsruhe

Latitude
49.0069° or 49° 0′ 25″ north
Longitude
8.4034° or 8° 24′ 12″ east
Population
284,000
Elevation
118 metres (387 feet)
IATA airport code
FKB
United Nations Location Code
DE KAE
Open location code
8FXC2C43+P9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240120582
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2892794
Wiki­data ID
Q1040
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Karlsruhe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karlsruhe”
  • Albanian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Arabic: “كارلسروه”
  • Aragonese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Armenian: “Կարլսռուե”
  • Armenian: “Կարլսրուե”
  • Arpitan: “Karlsruhe”
  • Asturian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karlsrue”
  • Balinese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Basque: “Karlsruhe”
  • Bavarian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Belarusian: “Карлсруэ”
  • Belarusian: “Карльсруэ”
  • Bengali: “কার্লসরুহে”
  • Breton: “Karlsruhe”
  • Bulgarian: “Карлсруе”
  • Catalan: “Karlsruhe”
  • Cebuano: “Karlsruhe”
  • Chechen: “Карлсруэ”
  • Chinese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Chinese: “卡尔斯鲁厄”
  • Chinese: “卡爾斯魯亞”
  • Chinese: “卡爾斯魯厄”
  • Chuvash: “Карлсруэ”
  • Corsican: “Karlsruhe”
  • Croatian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Czech: “Karlsruhe”
  • Danish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Karlsruhe”
  • Dutch: “Karelsrust”
  • Dutch: “Karlsruhe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارلسروه”
  • Esperanto: “Karlsruhe”
  • Estonian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Faroese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Finnish: “Karlsruhe”
  • French: “Carlsruhe”
  • French: “KA”
  • French: “Karlsruhe”
  • Friulian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Galician: “Karlsruhe”
  • Georgian: “კარლსრუე”
  • German: “Carlsruhe”
  • German: “Fächerstadt”
  • German: “KA”
  • German: “Karlsruhe”
  • German: “Residenz des Rechts”
  • Greek: “Καρλσρούη”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્લ્સરુહ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Hausa: “KA”
  • Hausa: “Karlsruhe”
  • Hebrew: “קארלסרואה”
  • Hebrew: “קארלסרוהה”
  • Hebrew: “קרלסרוא”
  • Hebrew: “קרלסרוהה”
  • Hindi: “कार्ल्सरुहे”
  • Hungarian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Icelandic: “Karlsruhe”
  • Ido: “Karlsruhe”
  • Indonesian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Interlingua: “Karlsruhe”
  • Interlingue: “Karlsruhe”
  • Irish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Italian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Japanese: “カールスルーエ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್ರುಹೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Карлсруэ”
  • Kirghiz: “Карлсруэ”
  • Kongo: “Karlsruhe”
  • Korean: “카를스루에”
  • Korean: “칼스루에”
  • Korean: “칼스루헤”
  • Kurdish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Ladin: “Karlsruhe”
  • Latin: “Carolsruha”
  • Latvian: “Karlsrūe”
  • Ligurian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Limburgan: “Karlsruhe”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlsrūė”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlsruhė”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlsrūhė”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlsrujė”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlsrūjė”
  • Lombard: “Karlsruhe”
  • Low German: “Karlsruhe”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Macedonian: “Carolsruha”
  • Macedonian: “Karlsrue”
  • Macedonian: “Karlsrūe”
  • Macedonian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Macedonian: “Karlsrūjė”
  • Macedonian: “Καρλσρούη”
  • Macedonian: “Карлсруе”
  • Macedonian: “Карлсруэ”
  • Macedonian: “Карльсруэ”
  • Macedonian: “კარლსრუე”
  • Macedonian: “קרלסרוהה”
  • Macedonian: “كارلسروه”
  • Macedonian: “کارلسروهه”
  • Macedonian: “कार्ल्सरूह”
  • Macedonian: “카를스루에”
  • Macedonian: “カールスルーエ”
  • Macedonian: “卡尔斯鲁厄”
  • Malagasy: “Karlsruhe”
  • Malay: “Karlsruhe”
  • Malayalam: “കാൾസ്റൂഹെ”
  • Maltese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Marathi: “कार्ल्सरुहे”
  • Marathi: “कार्ल्सरूह”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Minangkabau: “Karlsruhe”
  • Mongolian: “Карлсруэ”
  • Narom: “Karlsruhe”
  • Neapolitan: “Karlsruhe”
  • Nepali: “Karlsruhe”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karlsruhe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karlsruhe”
  • Norwegian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Karlsruhe”
  • Ossetian: “Карлсруэ”
  • Persian: “کارلسروهه”
  • Persian: “کالزروهه”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Kallsruh”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Karlsruh”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Karlsruhe”
  • Picard: “Karlsruhe”
  • Piemontese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Polish: “Carlsruhe”
  • Polish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Portuguese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Quechua: “Karlsruhe”
  • Romanian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Romansh: “Karlsruhe”
  • Russian: “Карлсруе”
  • Russian: “Карлсруэ”
  • Sardinian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Karlsruhe”
  • Scots: “Karlsruhe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Karlsruhe”
  • Serbian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Serbian: “Карлсруе”
  • Serbian: “Карлсрухе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karlsrue”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Sicilian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Silesian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Sinhala: “ක්ල්ශ්රුහි”
  • Slovak: “Karlsruhe”
  • Slovenian: “KA”
  • Slovenian: “Karlsruhe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارلسروهه”
  • Spanish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Swahili: “Karlsruhe”
  • Swedish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Swiss German: “Karlsrueh”
  • Swiss German: “Karlsruhe”
  • Tajik: “Корлсруҳе”
  • Talysh: “Karlsrue”
  • Talysh: “Karslrue”
  • Tamil: “கார்ல்சுருஹ்”
  • Tatar: “Karlsrue”
  • Tatar: “Карлсруэ”
  • Telugu: “కార్ల్స్రుహె”
  • Thai: “คาลส์รูเออ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Tumbuka: “Karlsruhe”
  • Turkish: “Carlsruhe”
  • Turkish: “KA”
  • Turkish: “Karlsruhe”
  • Turkish: “Residenz des Rechts”
  • Turkmen: “Karlsrue”
  • Twi: “Karlsruhe”
  • Ukrainian: “Карлсруе”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Urdu: “کارلزروے”
  • Urdu: “کارلسروئے”
  • Urdu: “کارلسروہہ”
  • Urdu: “کالسروئے”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsrue”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsruhe”
  • Uzbek: “Карлсруэ”
  • Venetian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Vietnamese: “Karlsruhe”
  • Vlaams: “Karlsruhe”
  • Volapük: “Karlsruhe”
  • Walloon: “Karlsruhe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karlsruhe”
  • Welsh: “Karlsruhe”
  • Western Frisian: “Karlsruhe”
  • Western Frisian: “Karslruhe”
  • Western Frisian: “Karslrûhe”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارلزروہے محل”
  • Wolof: “Karlsruhe”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔斯鲁厄”
  • Yakut: “Карлсруэ”
  • Yiddish: “קארלסרוע”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡爾斯魯亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Karlsruhe”
  • Zulu: “Karlsruhe”
  • “Karlsruhe”

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