Kristiansand
Kristiansand is the capital of Vest-Agder County, Norway. With 93,000 inhabitants, it is the fifth largest city of Norway, and one of the southernmost ones.
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- Type: City with 67,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Agder county in Southern Norway
- Also known as: “4204”, “Christians Sand”, “Christiansand”, “Christianssand”, “conceyu de Kristiansand (Noruega)”, “Krisjānsannas pašvaldība”, “Kristiansand kommun”, “Kristiansand Municipality”, “Kristiansand munisipyo”, “Kristiansand S”, “Kristianssand”, “KRS”, “क्रिस्टिअनसैण्ड”, and “クリスチャンセン”
- Neighbors: Lillesand
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kristiansand Railway Station and Kilden Performing Arts Centre.
Kilden Performing Arts Centre
Arts center
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vågsbygd and Lund.
Kristiansand
- Categories: municipality of Norway and locality
- Location: Agder, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.1462° or 58° 8′ 46″ north
Longitude
7.9957° or 7° 59′ 45″ east
Population
67,900
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
9FC94XWW+F7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kristiansand” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kristiansand”
- Albanian: “Kristiansand”
- Arabic: “كريستيانساند”
- Aragonese: “Kristiansand”
- Armenian: “Քրիստիանսանդ”
- Asturian: “Kristiansand”
- Banjar: “Kristiansand”
- Basque: “Kristiansand”
- Belarusian: “Крыстыянсан”
- Belarusian: “Крысціянсан”
- Bengali: “ক্রিস্টিয়ানসান্ড”
- Bishnupriya: “ক্রিস্টিয়ানসান্ড”
- Breton: “Kristiansand”
- Bulgarian: “Кристиансан”
- Catalan: “Kristiansand”
- Cebuano: “Kristiansand”
- Chinese: “克里斯蒂安桑”
- Croatian: “Kristiansand”
- Czech: “Kristiansand”
- Danish: “Kristiansand Kommune”
- Danish: “Kristiansand”
- Dutch: “Kristiansand”
- Esperanto: “Kristiansand”
- Estonian: “Kristiansand”
- Faroese: “Kristiansand”
- Faroese: “Kristiansands kommuna”
- Finnish: “Kristiansand”
- French: “Kristiansand”
- German: “Kristiansand”
- Greek: “Κρίστιανσαντ”
- Gujarati: “ક્રિસ્ટિયન્સેન્ડ”
- Hebrew: “קריסטיאנסנד”
- Hindi: “क्रिस्टियानसैंड”
- Hungarian: “Kristiansand község”
- Hungarian: “Kristiansand”
- Icelandic: “Kristjánssandur”
- Ido: “Kristiansand”
- Indonesian: “Kristiansand”
- Irish: “Kristiansand”
- Italian: “Kristiansand”
- Japanese: “クリスチャンサン”
- Kalaallisut: “Kristiansand”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ರಿಸ್ಟಿಯನ್ಸ್ಯಾನ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “크리스티안산”
- Latin: “Christiani munitio”
- Latvian: “Krisjānsannas komūna”
- Latvian: “Kristiansannas komūna”
- Limburgan: “Kristiansand”
- Lithuanian: “Kristiansandas”
- Low German: “Kommun Kristiansand”
- Luxembourgish: “Kristiansand”
- Macedonian: “Кристијансан”
- Malagasy: “Kristiansand”
- Malay: “Kristiansand”
- Maori: “Kristiansand”
- Marathi: “क्रिस्टियनसँड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kristiansand”
- Mongolian: “Кристиансанн”
- Northern Frisian: “Kristiansand”
- Northern Sami: “Kristiansand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kristiansand”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kristiansand kommune”
- Norwegian: “Kristiansand”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kristiansand”
- Ossetian: “Кристиансанн”
- Persian: “کریستیانساند”
- Piemontese: “Kristiansand”
- Polish: “Kristiansand”
- Portuguese: “Kristiansand”
- Pushto: “کريستيانساند”
- Romanian: “Kristiansand”
- Russian: “Кристиансанн”
- Samogitian: “Krėstēnsands”
- Serbian: “Кристијансанд”
- Silesian: “Kristiansand”
- Sinhala: “ක්රිස්ටියන්සෑන්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Kristiansand”
- Slovenian: “Kristiansand”
- Spanish: “Kristiansand”
- Swahili: “Kristiansand”
- Swedish: “Kristiansand”
- Swedish: “Kristiansands kommun”
- Tajik: “Кристиёнсонн”
- Tamil: “கிரிஷ்டியன்சான்ட்”
- Tamil: “கிறிஸ்டியன்சான்டு”
- Tatar: “Кристиансанн”
- Telugu: “క్రిష్టియన్ శాండ్”
- Thai: “คริสเตียนซันน์”
- Tumbuka: “Kristiansand”
- Turkish: “Kristiansand”
- Ukrainian: “Крістіансанн”
- Urdu: “کریستیانسان”
- Vietnamese: “Kristiansand”
- Volapük: “Kristiansand”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kristiansand”
- Welsh: “Kristiansand”
- Western Frisian: “Kristiansand”
- Wu Chinese: “克里斯蒂安桑”
- Zeeuws: “Kristiansand”
- “Kristiansand”
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