Karlstad
Karlstad is the largest city of Värmland in Sweden. 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.
- Type: City with 62,800 residents
- Description: urban area in Karlstad Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Carlstad”, “Karlstāde”, “Kārlstāde”, “Карлстад қаласы”, “كارل ستاد”, “كارلس تاد”, “ᑲᕐᓪᔅᑕᑦ/Karlstat”, and “カールスタッド”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Karlstad Central Station and Karlstad Cathedral.
Karlstad Central Station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norrstrand and Älvåker och Råtorp.
Karlstad
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Karlstads domkyrkoförs., Karlstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
SE KSD
Open location code
9FFM9GJ3+94
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Karlstad” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Karlstad”
- Amharic: “ካርልስታድ”
- Arabic: “كارلستاد”
- Aragonese: “Karlstad”
- Armenian: “Կարլստադ”
- Azerbaijani: “Karlstad”
- Basque: “Karlstad”
- Belarusian: “Карльстад”
- Bengali: “কার্লস্টাড”
- Bengali: “কার্লস্ট্যাড”
- Breton: “Karlstad”
- Bulgarian: “Карлстад”
- Catalan: “Karlstad”
- Cebuano: “Karlstad (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Karlstad”
- Chechen: “Карлстад”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Karlstad”
- Hawaiian: “Karlstad”
- Hebrew: “קרלסטד”
- Hindi: “कार्लस्टाड”
- Hindi: “कार्ल्सटाड”
- Hungarian: “Karlstad”
- Icelandic: “Karlstad”
- Indonesian: “Karlstad”
- Inuktitut: “ᑲᕐᓪᔅᑕᑦ”
- Irish: “Karlstad”
- Italian: “Karlstad”
- Japanese: “カールスタード”
- Javanese: “Karlstad”
- Kalaallisut: “Karlstad”
- Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಲ್ಸಟಾಟ್”
- Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್ಟಡ್”
- Kashubian: “Karlstad”
- Kazakh: “Карлстад”
- Kirghiz: “Карлстад”
- Korean: “칼스타드”
- Kurdish: “Karlstad”
- Ladin: “Karlstad”
- Latin: “Carolostadium Suevicum”
- Latin: “Carolostadium”
- Latvian: “Kārlstade”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Karlstad”
- Ossetian: “Карлстад”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਲਸਟਾਡ”
- Persian: “کارلستا”
- Persian: “کارلستاد”
- Persian: “کارلشته”
- Polish: “Karlstad”
- Portuguese: “Karlstad”
- Pushto: “کارل سټاد”
- Romanian: “Karlstad”
- Russian: “Карлстад”
- Scots: “Karlstad”
- Serbian: “Karlstad”
- Serbian: “Карлстад”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karlstad”
- Silesian: “Karlstad”
- Sinhala: “කාල්ස්ටඩ්”
- Slovak: “Karlstad”
- Slovenian: “Karlstad”
- Somali: “Karlstad”
- Spanish: “Karlstad”
- Swahili: “Karlstad”
- Swedish: “Karlstad”
- Tajik: “Карлстад”
- Tamil: “கார்ல்ஸ்டட்”
- Tatar: “Карлстад”
- Telugu: “కర్ల్స్టాడ్”
- Thai: “คอลสตา”
- Turkish: “Karlstad”
- Ukrainian: “Карлстад”
- Urdu: “کارلستا”
- Uzbek: “Karlstad”
- 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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