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Kristiansand

Kristiansand is the capital of Vest-Agder County, . 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 67,400 residents
  • Description: municipality of Agder county in Southern Norway
  • Also known as: “Christiansand” and “Kristiansand Sør”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Germán Póo-Caamaño, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kilden Performing Arts Centre and Kristiansand Railway Station.

Arts center
Photo: trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater and concert hall on in Kristiansand, . It houses Kilden Teater, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Kilden Opera and Kilden Culture Venue in a joint project never previously embarked upon.

Railway station
Photo: kalev kevad, CC BY 2.0.
Kristiansand Station is a railway station located in downtown Kristiansand in county, . The station, located along the Sørlandet Line, is served by regional trains to and .

Museum
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is located in Kristiansand, in the building that until 1970 hosted the . The museum is a foundation, and it was created in 1995, with the counties of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder as initiators together with the municipality of Kristiansand and the Kristiansand Art Gallery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vågsbygd and Lund.

Suburb
Photo: Havstad112, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a borough and district in the city of Kristiansand which lies in the municipality of Kristiansand in county, . It is the largest borough and district in Kristiansand.

Suburb
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is a borough and district in the city of Kristiansand which lies in the municipality of Kristiansand in county, . It is the second largest borough in the city after .

Suburb
Photo: CarstenR, FAL.
is a borough in the city of Kristiansand which lies in the municipality of Kristiansand in county, . The borough has a population of about 16,000 people and is the second least populated borough in Kristiansand.

Kristiansand

Latitude
58.1462° or 58° 8′ 46″ north
Longitude
7.9957° or 7° 59′ 45″ east
Population
67,400
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
KRS
United Nations Location Code
NO KRS
Open location code
9FC94XWW+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31264100
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3149318
Wiki­data ID
Q2415
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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: “conceyu de Kristiansand (Noruega)”
  • Asturian: “Kristiansand kommune”
  • Asturian: “Kristiansand”
  • Banjar: “Kristiansand”
  • Basque: “Kristiansand”
  • Belarusian: “Крыстыянсан”
  • Belarusian: “Крысціянсан”
  • Bengali: “ক্রিস্টিয়ানসান্ড”
  • Bishnupriya: “ক্রিস্টিয়ানসান্ড”
  • Breton: “Kristiansand”
  • Bulgarian: “Кристиансан”
  • Bulgarian: “Кристиансанд”
  • Catalan: “Kristiansand”
  • Cebuano: “Kristiansand munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Kristiansand”
  • Chinese: “Kristiansand”
  • Chinese: “克里斯蒂安桑”
  • Croatian: “Kristiansand”
  • Czech: “Kristiansand”
  • Danish: “Kristiansand kommune”
  • 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: “כריסטיאנסנד”
  • Hebrew: “קריסטיאנסנד”
  • Hindi: “क्रिस्टिअनसैण्ड”
  • Hindi: “क्रिस्टियानसैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Kristiansand kommune”
  • Hungarian: “Kristiansand község”
  • Hungarian: “Kristiansand”
  • Icelandic: “Kristiansand”
  • Icelandic: “Kristjánssandur”
  • Ido: “Kristiansand”
  • Indonesian: “Kristiansand”
  • Irish: “Kristiansand”
  • Italian: “Kristiansand”
  • Japanese: “クリスチャンサン”
  • Japanese: “クリスチャンセン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kristiansand”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ರಿಸ್ಟಿಯನ್ಸ್ಯಾನ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “크리스티안산”
  • Latin: “Christiani munitio”
  • Latvian: “Krisjānsanna”
  • Latvian: “Krisjānsannas komūna”
  • Latvian: “Krisjānsannas pašvaldība”
  • Latvian: “Kristiansand kommune”
  • Limburgan: “Kristiansand”
  • Lithuanian: “Kristiansandas”
  • Low German: “Kommun Kristiansand”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kristiansand”
  • Macedonian: “Кристијансан”
  • Malagasy: “Kristiansand”
  • Malay: “Kristiansand”
  • Maori: “Kristiansand”
  • Marathi: “क्रिस्टियनसँड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kristiansand”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kristiansand”
  • Northern Sami: “Kristiansand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Christians Sand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Christiansand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Christianssand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kristiansand kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kristiansand S”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kristiansand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kristianssand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “KRS”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kristiansand kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kristiansand”
  • Norwegian: “Kristiansand S”
  • 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 kommun”
  • 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”
  • “Krėstēnsands”
  • “Kristiansand”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kristiansand”. Photo: CarstenR, CC BY-SA 3.0.