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Västra Götaland County

Mariestad

Mariestad is a town with about 15,000 inhabitants in the province in . It is by the lake Vänern. It has a long history and has played an important part in Swedish history.
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  • Type: Municipality with 24,600 residents
  • Description: municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “1493”, “Mariestad Municipality”, and “Mariestads kommun”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mariestad Cathedral and Theatre of Mariestad.

Church
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is a cathedral in , Sweden. It belongs to the Diocese of Skara of the Church of Sweden.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Movie theater
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is a movie theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mariestad and Ullervad.

Town
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is a locality and the seat of Municipality, , . It had 16,611 inhabitants in 2019. Until 1997 it was the capital of the former Skaraborg County and an episcopal see in the Church of Sweden between 1583 and 1646.

Village
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is a locality situated in Mariestad Municipality, , . It had 935 inhabitants in 2010.

Mariestad

Latitude
58.7° or 58° 42′ north
Longitude
13.8333° or 13° 50′ east
Population
24,600
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
Open location code
9FCMMRXM+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302270300
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
2692611
Wiki­data ID
Q427422
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Mariestad” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Mariestads (Suecia)”
  • Asturian: “Mariestads kommun”
  • Asturian: “Mariestads”
  • Basque: “Mariestad udalerria”
  • Bavarian: “Mariestad”
  • Belarusian: “Марыестад”
  • Bulgarian: “Мариестад”
  • Cebuano: “Mariestads Kommun”
  • Chinese: “Mariestad Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “玛丽斯塔德市镇”
  • Danish: “Mariestad Kommune”
  • Danish: “Mariestads kommun”
  • Dutch: “Mariestad”
  • Esperanto: “komunumo Mariestad”
  • Esperanto: “Mariestad”
  • Esperanto: “Mariestads kommun”
  • Faroese: “Mariestads kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Mariestadin kunta”
  • Finnish: “Mariestadin Kunta”
  • French: “Mariestad”
  • Galician: “Concello de Mariestad”
  • German: “Mariestad”
  • Hungarian: “Mariestad község”
  • Italian: “Mariestad”
  • Japanese: “マリエスタード市”
  • Korean: “마리에스타드시”
  • Ladin: “Mariestad”
  • Limburgan: “Mariestad”
  • Lombard: “Mariestad”
  • Low German: “Kommun Mariestad”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mariestad Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mariestad (Komuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mariestad”
  • Northern Sami: “Mariestada gielda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mariestad kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mariestads kommun”
  • Norwegian: “Mariestad kommune”
  • Persian: “بخش ماریستاد”
  • Polish: “Gmina Mariestad”
  • Portuguese: “Mariestad”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Mariestad”
  • Russian: “Мариестад”
  • Scots: “Mariestad Municipality”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mariestad”
  • Slovenian: “Mariestads kommun”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Mariestad”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Mariestad”
  • Swedish: “Mariestad kommun”
  • Swedish: “Mariestad”
  • Swedish: “Mariestads kommun”
  • Turkish: “Mariestad Belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Mariestads komünü”
  • Ukrainian: “Марієстад”
  • Vietnamese: “Mariestad (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Mariestad”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Mariestad”

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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 “Mariestad”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.