Sweden
Västra Götaland County
Skara Municipality

Skara

Skara is a locality and the seat of , , with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013. Despite its small size, it is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, and has a long educational and ecclesiastical history.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Skara Cathedral and Västergötland museum.

Church
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is a church in the town of Skara, Sweden. The cathedral is the seat for the bishop of the Diocese of Skara of the Church of Sweden.

Museum
Photo: Nasko, Public domain.

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Skara

Latitude
58.3846° or 58° 23′ 5″ north
Longitude
13.4398° or 13° 26′ 23″ east
Population
11,400
Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SE SRA
Open location code
9FCM9CMQ+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26458262
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2678210
Wiki­data ID
Q939389
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Skara” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Skara”
  • Arabic: “سكارا”
  • Basque: “Skara”
  • Belarusian: “Скара”
  • Bulgarian: “Скара”
  • Catalan: “Skara”
  • Cebuano: “Skara”
  • Chinese: “Skara”
  • Chinese: “斯卡拉”
  • Croatian: “Skara”
  • Danish: “Skara”
  • Dutch: “Skara”
  • Estonian: “Skara”
  • Faroese: “Skara”
  • Finnish: “Skara”
  • French: “Skara”
  • German: “Skara”
  • Hungarian: “Skara”
  • Icelandic: “Skara”
  • Indonesian: “Skara”
  • Irish: “Skara”
  • Italian: “Skara”
  • Japanese: “スカーラ (スウェーデン)”
  • Japanese: “スコーラ”
  • Korean: “스카라”
  • Ladin: “Skara”
  • Latin: “Scara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Skara”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skara”
  • Norwegian: “Skara”
  • Persian: “سکورا”
  • Polish: “Skara”
  • Portuguese: “Skara”
  • Romanian: “Skara”
  • Russian: “Скара”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Skara”
  • Serbian: “Скара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skara”
  • Silesian: “Skara”
  • Slovenian: “Skara”
  • Spanish: “Skara”
  • Swedish: “Skara”
  • Turkish: “Skara”
  • Ukrainian: “Скара”
  • Volapük: “Skara”
  • Welsh: “Skara”
  • Western Mari: “Скара”

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