Lake Charles

Lake Charles is the second-largest city in the region of , with 87,000 residents in 2022. It is well known for gaming and the great outdoors, culinary delights and rhythm and blues.
  • City with about 84,900 residents
  • …has the IATA airport code LCH
  • Description: parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States
  • Postal codes
    70601
    70602
    70605-70607
    70609
    70611
    70612
    70615
    70616
    70629
  • Also known as
    “Charlestown”
    “Lake Charles, LA”
    “Lake Charles, Louisiana”

Places of Interest

Discover Lake Charles station and Old Lake Charles City Hall.
Railway station
is a train station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
Music venue
, in the Lake Charles Event Center…
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Latitude
30.2305° or 30° 13′ 50″ north
Longitude
-93.217° or 93° 13′ 1″ west
UN/LOCODE
US LCH
Open location code
86286QJM+66
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

See this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Lake Charles” goes by many names.
Lake CharlesAlbanian
Lake Charles, LouisianaAlbanian
ليك تشارلزArabic
Լեյք ՉարլզArmenian
Lake CharlesBasque
Лэйк-ЧарлзBelarusian
লেক চার্লসBengali
Lake CharlesCatalan
Lake CharlesCebuano
Лейк-ЧарлзChechen
查爾斯湖Chinese
莱克查尔斯Chinese
Lake CharlesCzech
Lake CharlesDagbani
Lake CharlesDanish
Lake CharlesDutch
ليك تشارلزEgyptian Arabic
ليك تشارلز، لويزياناEgyptian Arabic
Lago KaroloEsperanto
Lake CharlesEstonian
Lake CharlesFinnish
لیک چارلزGilaki
لیک چارلز (لۊئيزيانا)Gilaki
Λέικ ΤσαρλςGreek
લેક ચાર્લ્સGujarati
Lake CharlesHaitian
Lake Charles, LwizyanaHaitian
לייק צ’ארלסHebrew
लेक चार्ल्सHindi
Lake CharlesHungarian
Lake CharlesIndonesian
Lake Charles, LouisianaIndonesian
Lake CharlesIrish
Lake CharlesItalian
レイク・チャールズJapanese
レイク・チャールズ (ルイジアナ州)Japanese
ಲೇಕ್ ಚಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್Kannada
레이크 찰스Korean
Lake CharlesLadin
LeikčārlzaLatvian
Leik ČarlsasLithuanian
Leik ČarlzasLithuanian
Lake CharlesMalagasy
Lake Charles, LouisianaMalagasy
Lake CharlesMalay
लेक चार्ल्सMarathi
لیک چارلزMazanderani
Lake CharlesMin Nan Chinese
Lake CharlesNorwegian
Lake CharlesNorwegian Bokmål
لیک چارلزPersian
لیک چارلز، لوئیزیاناPersian
Lake CharlesPolish
Lake CharlesRomanian
Lake Charles, LouisianaRomanian
Лейк-ЧарльзRussian
Лејк ЧарлсSerbian
Lake CharlesSerbo-Croatian
Lake Charles, LouisianaSerbo-Croatian
Lake CharlesSilesian
ලේක් චාර්ල්ස්Sinhala
Lake CharlesSlovak
Lake CharlesSlovenian
لیک چارلز، لوئیزیاناSouth Azerbaijani
Lake CharlesSwahili
Lake Charles, LouisianaSwahili
Lake CharlesSwedish
லேக் சார்லஸ்Tamil
Лейк-ЧарлзTatar
లేక్ చార్లెస్Telugu
เลกชาลส์Thai
Lake CharlesTurkish
Lake Charles, LouisianaTurkish
Лейк-ЧарлзUkrainian
لیک چارلس، لوسیانہUrdu
Lake CharlesUzbek
Lake CharlesVietnamese
Lake CharlesVolapük
Lake CharlesWaray (Philippines)
Lake Charles, LouisianaWaray (Philippines)
Lake CharlesWelsh
Lake Charles, LouisianaWelsh

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