Värmland County
Karlstad Municipality
Karlstads domkyrkoförs.

Karlstad

Karlstad is the largest city of in . It was founded by King Karl IX in 1584, and is located where Klarälven river flows into Lake Vänern, the largest lake in Europe outside Russia.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Karlstad Cathedral and Karlstad Central Station.

Church
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is a cathedral in Karlstad, . The church is located in the middle of Karlstad on Lagberget on Tingvalla island. It belongs to Parish of the Diocese of Karlstad of the Church of Sweden.

Railway station
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is located in Karlstad, , along the Värmland Line. The station is located around 300 metres from traditional midpoint of the city.

Stadium
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Tingvalla Idrottsplats is a stadium in Karlstad, and is the home ground of the football team Carlstad United and the American football team Carlstad Crusaders.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norrstrand and Älvåker och Råtorp.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Karlstad

Latitude
59.3809° or 59° 22′ 51″ north
Longitude
13.5028° or 13° 30′ 10″ east
Population
62,800
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
IATA airport code
KSD
United Nations Location Code
SE KSD
Open location code
9FFM9GJ3+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25975135
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2701680
Wiki­data ID
Q25457
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Karlstad” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Karlstad”
  • Amharic: “ካርልስታድ”
  • Arabic: “كارل ستاد”
  • Arabic: “كارلس تاد”
  • Arabic: “كارلستاد”
  • Aragonese: “Karlstad”
  • Armenian: “Կարլստադ”
  • Basque: “Karlstad”
  • Belarusian: “Карлстад”
  • Belarusian: “Карльстад”
  • Bengali: “কার্লস্ট্যাড”
  • Breton: “Karlstad”
  • Bulgarian: “Карлстад”
  • Catalan: “Karlstad”
  • Cebuano: “Karlstad (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Karlstad”
  • Chechen: “Карлстад”
  • Chinese: “Karlstad”
  • Chinese: “卡尔斯塔德”
  • Chinese: “卡爾斯塔德”
  • Cornish: “Karlstad”
  • Croatian: “Karlstad”
  • Czech: “Karlstad”
  • Danish: “Karlstad”
  • Dutch: “Karlstad”
  • Esperanto: “Karlstad”
  • Estonian: “Karlstad”
  • Ewe: “Karlstad”
  • Faroese: “Karlstad”
  • Finnish: “Karlstad”
  • French: “Karlstad”
  • Galician: “Karlstad”
  • Georgian: “კარლსტადი”
  • German: “Karlstad”
  • Greek: “Κάρλσταντ”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્લસ્ટેડ”
  • Hawaiian: “Karlstad”
  • Hebrew: “קרלסטד”
  • Hindi: “कार्ल्सटाड”
  • Hungarian: “Karlstad”
  • Icelandic: “Karlstad”
  • Indonesian: “Karlstad”
  • Inuktitut: “Karlstad”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑲᕐᓪᔅᑕᑦ/Karlstat”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑲᕐᓪᔅᑕᑦ”
  • Irish: “Karlstad”
  • Italian: “Karlstad”
  • Japanese: “カールスタード”
  • Japanese: “カールスタッド”
  • Kalaallisut: “Karlstad”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಲ್ಸಟಾಟ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್ಟಡ್”
  • Kashubian: “Karlstad”
  • Kazakh: “Карлстад”
  • Korean: “칼스타드”
  • Kurdish: “Karlstad”
  • Ladin: “Karlstad”
  • Latin: “Carolostadium Suevicum”
  • Latin: “Carolostadium”
  • Latvian: “Karlstāde”
  • Latvian: “Kārlstade”
  • Latvian: “Kārlstāde”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlstadas”
  • Lombard: “Karlstad”
  • Malay: “Karlstad”
  • Maori: “Karlstad”
  • Marathi: “कार्लस्टाड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karlstad”
  • Minangkabau: “Karlstad”
  • Moksha: “Карлстад”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karlstad”
  • Northern Sami: “Karlstad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karlstad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karlstad”
  • Norwegian: “Karlstad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Karlstad”
  • Ossetian: “Карлстад”
  • Persian: “کارلستا”
  • Persian: “کارلستاد”
  • Persian: “کارلشته”
  • Polish: “Karlstad”
  • Portuguese: “Karlstad”
  • Romanian: “Karlstad”
  • Russian: “Карлстад”
  • Russian: “Карльстад”
  • Scots: “Karlstad”
  • Serbian: “Karlstad”
  • Serbian: “Карлстад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karlstad”
  • Silesian: “Karlstad”
  • Sinhala: “කාල්ස්ටඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Karlstad”
  • Slovenian: “Karlstad”
  • Spanish: “Karlstad”
  • Swahili: “Karlstad”
  • Swedish: “Carlstad”
  • Swedish: “Karlstad”
  • Tajik: “Карлстад”
  • Tamil: “கார்ல்ஸ்டட்”
  • Tatar: “Карлстад”
  • Telugu: “కర్ల్స్టాడ్”
  • Thai: “คอลสตา”
  • Turkish: “Karlstad”
  • Ukrainian: “Карлстад”
  • Urdu: “کارلستا”
  • Vietnamese: “Karlstad”
  • Volapük: “Karlstad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karlstad”
  • Western Frisian: “Karlstad”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارلسٹاڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔斯塔德”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡爾斯塔德”
  • “Karlstad”

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