Karise

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Karise

Total population

2,425

Elevation9 m

Coordinates55.31°, 12.20°

Demographic figures from Statistics Denmark. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Karise is the main town of Karise Parish in Faxe Municipality, Region Sjælland in the southeast of Denmark. Karise town has a population of 2,431

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Jesper Olsen

Danish footballer

Matti Breschel

Danish road bicycle racer, born 1984

Michael Maze

Danish table tennis player

Martin A. Hansen

Danish writer (1909–1955)

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Christian Barnekow

Danish noble, explorer and diplomat

Otto Thott

Danish noble (1703-1785)

Anne Holck

Danish noblewoman (1602-1660)

Niels Larsen Stevns

Danish painter (1864-1941)

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Gunnar Andreasen

Danish boxer (1914-1996)

Mogens Skeel

Danish playwright

Valdemar Rørdam

Danish novelist and poet (1872-1946)

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Egon Christophersen

Recipient of the Knight's Cross (1919-1988)

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Gitte Karlshøj

Masters Distance Runner, Marathoner

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Svend Ellehøj

Danish autobiographer (1924-1988)

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Sophus Zahle

Danish author and pastor (1797-1837)

Christian Rasmussen

Danish missionary in Greenland, author, philologist, and pastor

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Zealand

• Store Spjellerup
  2.7 mi away · pop. 225
• Hellested
  2.8 mi away · pop. 586
• Hårlev
  3.1 mi away · pop. 2,569
• Lyderslev
  4.4 mi away · pop. 317
• Faxe
  5.1 mi away · pop. 3,828
• Dalby
  5.3 mi away · pop. 2,089
• Klippinge
  5.8 mi away · pop. 520
• Strøby
  6.2 mi away · pop. 644
• Faxe Ladeplads
  6.2 mi away · pop. 2,874
• Tureby
  6.5 mi away
• Valløby
  6.5 mi away · pop. 724
• Algestrup
  6.7 mi away · pop. 873

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.