North Bohemia
Ústí nad Labem Region
Louny District

Žatec

Žatec is a town of 19,000 people in on the Ohře river. The region is famous for an over-700-year-long tradition of growing Saaz noble hops used by several breweries in making beer.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Křížova vila and Žatec.

Museum
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is a museum.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Libočany and Staňkovice.

Village
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is a municipality and village in in the of the . It has about 500 inhabitants. It is known as the birthplace of Wenceslaus Hajek, the most renowned Czech chronicler.

Village
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is a municipality and village in in the of the . It has about 1,100 inhabitants.

Village
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is a village.

Žatec

Latitude
50.3274° or 50° 19′ 39″ north
Longitude
13.546° or 13° 32′ 45″ east
Population
19,300
Elevation
243 metres (797 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CZ ZAT
Open location code
9F2M8GGW+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1598419317
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3061822
Wiki­data ID
Q393426
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Žatec” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ժատեց”
  • Basque: “Žatec”
  • Belarusian: “Жатэц”
  • Belarusian: “Жацец”
  • Bulgarian: “Жатец”
  • Catalan: “Žatec”
  • Cebuano: “Žatec”
  • Chinese: “Žatec”
  • Chinese: “扎泰茨”
  • Croatian: “Žatec”
  • Czech: “Saaz”
  • Czech: “Žatec”
  • Danish: “Žatec”
  • Dutch: “Saaz”
  • Dutch: “Žatec”
  • Esperanto: “Zatec (Louny)”
  • Esperanto: “Žatec (Louny)”
  • Esperanto: “Zatec”
  • Esperanto: “Žatec”
  • Estonian: “Žatec”
  • French: “Žatec”
  • German: “Saaz”
  • German: “Zatec”
  • German: “Žatec”
  • Hebrew: “ז’אטץ”
  • Hungarian: “Žatec”
  • Indonesian: “Žatec”
  • Irish: “Žatec”
  • Italian: “Zatec”
  • Italian: “Žatec”
  • Japanese: “ザーツ”
  • Japanese: “ジャテツ”
  • Kazakh: “Жатец”
  • Lithuanian: “Žatecas”
  • Lombard: “Žatec”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Žatec (Mãhãlã Louny)”
  • Macedonian: “Жатец”
  • Malay: “Žatec”
  • Maltese: “Saaz”
  • Maltese: “Zatec”
  • Maltese: “Žatec”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Žatec”
  • Persian: “ژاتتس”
  • Polish: “Saaz”
  • Polish: “Zatec”
  • Polish: “Žatec”
  • Polish: “Żatec”
  • Portuguese: “Žatec”
  • Romanian: “Žatec”
  • Russian: “Жатец”
  • Serbian: “Жатец”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Žatec”
  • Slovak: “Žatec”
  • Slovenian: “Žatec”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ژاتتس”
  • Spanish: “Saaz”
  • Spanish: “Zatec”
  • Spanish: “Žatec”
  • Swedish: “Žatec”
  • Tatar: “Жатетс”
  • Turkish: “Žatec”
  • Ukrainian: “Жатець”
  • Vietnamese: “Žatec”
  • Welsh: “Žatec”
  • “Žatec”

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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 “Žatec”. Photo: ŠJů, CC BY 4.0.