Official Name: | Kareli | ||||||||
Native Name: | ქარელი | ||||||||
Native Name Lang: | geo | ||||||||
Settlement Type: | Town | ||||||||
Pushpin Map: | Georgia (country)#Shida Kartli | ||||||||
Mapsize: | 280px | ||||||||
Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||
Subdivision Type1: | Mkhare | ||||||||
Subdivision Name1: | Shida Kartli | ||||||||
Subdivision Type2: | District | ||||||||
Subdivision Name2: | Kareli | ||||||||
Population As Of: | 2024 | ||||||||
Population Footnotes: | [1] | ||||||||
Population Total: | 6,775 | ||||||||
Timezone: | Georgian Time | ||||||||
Utc Offset: | +4 | ||||||||
Coordinates: | 42.0214°N 43.8931°W | ||||||||
Elevation M: | 620 | ||||||||
Pushpin Relief: | y | ||||||||
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Kareli (Georgian: ქარელი) is a town in Shida Kartli, Georgia, located on the right bank of the Mtkvari, 94 km west of the country's capital of Tbilisi.Kareli became the district center in 1939, transformed into a township in 1962, declared a city in 1981. There is a railway station, industrial enterprises, healthcare, educational and cultural institutions in Kareli.
Kareli is first mentioned as a village in the 1715 documents. It was a property of the Tsitsishvili noble family. It acquired the status of a town under the Soviet government in 1981. Since 1939, it has been an administrative center of the homonymous district. As of the 2014 census, Kareli had a population of 6,654.
Kareli has a humid subtropical climate with moderately cold winters and long warm summers. The town's environs are a home to several architectural monuments of medieval Georgia such as the churches of Zghuderi, Samtsevrisi, Ruisi, and Kintsvisi, and the fortress of Ortubani (Dzama).