South
Louisiana
Calcasieu

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.
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  • Type: City with 84,900 residents
  • Description: parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Charlestown”, “Lake Charles, LA”, and “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Postal codes: 70601, 70602, 70605-70607, 70609, 70611, 70612, 70615, 70616, and 70629

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Charles station and Old Lake Charles City Hall.

Railway station
is a train station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. It is served tri-weekly by Amtrak's Sunset Limited. It is located on 100 Ryan Street at the west end of South Railroad Avenue.

Museum
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is a museum.

Music venue
, in the Lake Charles Event Center, is a 7,450-seat multi-purpose arena in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Located on Lakeshore Drive, it is the main arena of the event center and is named for former Lake Charles Mayor James Sudduth.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westlake.

Town
is an industrial city in , in western , United States, and is part of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area.

Lake Charles

Latitude
30.2305° or 30° 13′ 50″ north
Longitude
-93.217° or 93° 13′ 1″ west
Population
84,900
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
IATA airport code
LCH
United Nations Location Code
US LCH
Open location code
86286QJM+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151739449
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4330236
Wiki­data ID
Q864106
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Lake Charles” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Albanian: “Lake Charles”
  • Arabic: “ليك تشارلز”
  • Armenian: “Լեյք Չարլզ”
  • Basque: “Lake Charles”
  • Belarusian: “Лэйк-Чарлз”
  • Bengali: “লেক চার্লস”
  • Catalan: “Lake Charles”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Charles”
  • Chechen: “Лейк-Чарлз”
  • Chinese: “Lake Charles”
  • Chinese: “查爾斯湖”
  • Chinese: “莱克查尔斯”
  • Czech: “Lake Charles”
  • Dagbani: “Lake Charles”
  • Danish: “Lake Charles”
  • Dutch: “Lake Charles”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليك تشارلز، لويزيانا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليك تشارلز”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Karolo”
  • Estonian: “Lake Charles”
  • Finnish: “Lake Charles”
  • French: “Lac Charles”
  • French: “Lac-Charles”
  • French: “Lake Charles”
  • German: “Lake Charles”
  • Gilaki: “لیک چارلز (لۊئيزيانا)”
  • Gilaki: “لیک چارلز”
  • Greek: “Λέικ Τσαρλς”
  • Gujarati: “લેક ચાર્લ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Lake Charles, Lwizyana”
  • Haitian: “Lake Charles”
  • Hebrew: “לייק צ’ארלס”
  • Hindi: “लेक चार्ल्स”
  • Hungarian: “Lake Charles”
  • Indonesian: “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Indonesian: “Lake Charles”
  • Irish: “Lake Charles”
  • Italian: “Lake Charles”
  • Japanese: “レイク・チャールズ”
  • Japanese: “レイクチャールズ”
  • Kannada: “ಲೇಕ್ ಚಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “레이크 찰스”
  • Korean: “레이크찰스”
  • Ladin: “Lake Charles”
  • Latvian: “Leikčārlza”
  • Lithuanian: “Leik Čarlsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Leik Čarlzas”
  • Malagasy: “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Malagasy: “Lake Charles”
  • Malay: “Lake Charles”
  • Marathi: “लेक चार्ल्स”
  • Mazanderani: “لیک چارلز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lake Charles”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Charles”
  • Norwegian: “Lake Charles”
  • Persian: “لیک چارلز، لوئیزیانا”
  • Persian: “لیک چارلز”
  • Polish: “Lake Charles”
  • Portuguese: “Lake Charles”
  • Russian: “Лейк-Чарльз”
  • Serbian: “Лејк Чарлс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Charles”
  • Silesian: “Lake Charles”
  • Sinhala: “ලේක් චාර්ල්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Lake Charles”
  • Slovenian: “Lake Charles”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیک چارلز، لوئیزیانا”
  • Spanish: “Lake Charles (Luisiana)”
  • Spanish: “Lake Charles”
  • Swahili: “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Swahili: “Lake Charles”
  • Swedish: “Lake Charles”
  • Tamil: “லேக் சார்லஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Лейк-Чарлз”
  • Telugu: “లేక్ చార్లెస్”
  • Thai: “เลกชาลส์”
  • Turkish: “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Turkish: “Lake Charles”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейк-Чарлз”
  • Urdu: “لیک چارلس، لوسیانہ”
  • Uzbek: “Lake Charles”
  • Vietnamese: “Lake Charles”
  • Volapük: “Lake Charles”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake Charles”
  • Welsh: “Lake Charles, Louisiana”
  • Welsh: “Lake Charles”

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