Karelia (disambiguation)

Karelia is an area in Northern Europe divided between Russia and Finland.

Karelia may also refer to:

Present-day regions

• Republic of Karelia, a subject within the Russian Federation
  • Karelia constituency, Russian legislative constituency in the Republic of Karelia
• Finnish Karelia
  • North Karelia, an administrative region in Finland
  • South Karelia, an administrative region in Finland

History and politics

• Karelia (historical province), a historical province of Finland and Sweden
• Karelia County, the name of the Viborg and Nyslott County in 1634–1641
• One of the historical semi-independent states:
  • Provisional Government of Karelia (1919–1920)
  • Olonets Government of Southern Karelia (1920)
  • Karelian United Government (1920–1923)
• Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, a Soviet republic that existed from 1923 to 1940 and from 1956 to 1991
• Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, a republic of the USSR (1940–1956)
• Northern Karelia Province, a province of Finland (1960–1997)

Music

• Karelia (album), 1989 album by Shizuka Kudo
• Karelia Suite, a collection of classical music by Jean Sibelius
• The Karelia (band), a former band of Alex Kapranos
• Karelia (heavy metal band), a French heavy metal band
• "Karelia", a song by Lidia Klement
• "Karelia", an instrumental piece by Amorphis on their 1992 album The Karelian Isthmus
• "Karelia", an instrumental piece by Insomnium on their 2019 album Heart Like a Grave

Business

• Karelia Tobacco Company, a Greek tobacco company
• FC Karelia Petrozavodsk, formerly professional Russian football team
• FC Karelia-Discovery Petrozavodsk, amateur/semi-pro Russian football team
• Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Finnish University

Other

• Russian submarine Karelia (K-18), a submarine in service with the Russian Navy
• Karelia Watson, software program released by Karelia Software for the Macintosh in 2001
• Karelian Province, geological province of the Baltic shield

See also

• Karelian (disambiguation)
• Academic Karelia Society
• National Theatre of Karelia