Venta River
The Venta is a river in north-western Lithuania and western Latvia. Its source is near Kuršėnai in the Lithuanian Šiauliai County. It flows into the Baltic Sea at Ventspils in Latvia.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Latvia and Lithuania
- Also known as: “Rio Venta”, “Vanta”, “Venta”, “Venta Nehri”, “Wenta”, “Windau River”, “Виндава”, “Вянта”, “ヴェンタ川”, and “ベンタ川”
Places of Interest
Highlights: North ldg. line front light beacon and Ventspils Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tārgale.
Tārgale
Village
Tārgale is a village at the centre of the Tārgale… Tārgale is situated 9 km southeast of Venta River.
Venta River
- Categories: river, border river, and body of water
- Location: Ventspils, Kurzeme, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.39545° or 57° 23′ 44″ north
Longitude
21.54395° or 21° 32′ 38″ east
Open location code
9G939GWV+5H
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Venta River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Venta”
- Armenian: “Վենտա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Venta”
- Belarusian: “Вэнта”
- Belarusian: “Рака Вэнта”
- Bengali: “ভেন্টা”
- Breton: “Venta (stêr)”
- Breton: “Venta”
- Bulgarian: “Вента”
- Catalan: “Venta”
- Cebuano: “Venta”
- Chinese: “文塔河”
- Croatian: “Venta”
- Czech: “Venta”
- Danish: “Venta”
- Dutch: “Venta”
- Esperanto: “Venta (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Venta”
- Estonian: “Venta jõgi”
- Finnish: “Venta”
- French: “Venta”
- Georgian: “ვენტა”
- German: “Venta”
- German: “Windau”
- Hebrew: “ונטה”
- Hungarian: “Venta”
- Irish: “Venta”
- Italian: “Venta”
- Japanese: “ベンタ河”
- Ladin: “Venta”
- Latin: “Wela”
- Latin: “Winda”
- Latvian: “Venta”
- Lithuanian: “Venta”
- Liv: “Vǟnta joug”
- Macedonian: “Вента”
- Northern Frisian: “Venta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Venta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Venta”
- Norwegian: “Venta”
- Persian: “رود ونتا”
- Persian: “ونتا”
- Polish: “Windawa”
- Romanian: “Venta”
- Russian: “Вента”
- Samogitian: “Vėnta”
- Serbian: “Вента”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Venta”
- Slovak: “Venta”
- Slovenian: “Venta”
- South Azerbaijani: “ونتا چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Venta”
- Spanish: “Venta”
- Swedish: “Venta”
- Turkish: “Venta”
- Ukrainian: “Вента”
- Uzbek: “Venta”
- Venetian: “Fiume Venta”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Gāliņciems and Pārventa.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Ventspils Ziemeļu Front Range Light and Ventspils Loču Tornis.
Kurzeme: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Liepāja and Kuldīga.
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