Vaiņode
Vaiņode is a village in Vaiņode Parish, South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. The village developed around a railway station after 1871 between Liepāja and Mažeikiai.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,870 residents
- Description: human settlement in Latvia
- Also known as: “Vain’ody”, “Vaiņodes”, and “Vaynëde”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaiņode Air Base.
Vaiņode Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vaiņode is a former USSR air base in Latvia, located 31 kilometres south of Skrunda. It was abandoned in 1993. It is only 4 kilometres from the border with Lithuania. Vaiņode Air Base is situated 2½ km southeast of Vaiņode.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vībiņi and Vižančiai.
Vībiņi
Village
Photo: AcidiX, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vībiņi is a village, which is situated 8 km north of Vaiņode.
Vižančiai
Village
Photo: Vilensija, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vižančiai is a village, which is situated 9 km south of Vaiņode.
Vaiņode
- Categories: village in Latvia, large village in Latvia, and locality
- Location: Vaiņodes pagasts, South Kurzeme Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.41935° or 56° 25′ 10″ northLongitude
21.85119° or 21° 51′ 4″ eastPopulation
1,870Elevation
149 metres (489 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV VNDOpen location code
9G83CV92+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1152558284OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Vaiņode” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Вайнёдэ”
- Catalan: “Vaiņode”
- Cebuano: “Vaiņode”
- Dutch: “Vaiņode”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤاينودى”
- Estonian: “Vaiņode”
- French: “Vainode”
- French: “Vaiņode”
- German: “Vaiņode”
- German: “Vaiņodes novads”
- Greek: “Βαινοδε”
- Italian: “Vaiņode”
- Japanese: “ヴァイニョデ”
- Latvian: “Vaiņode”
- Lithuanian: “Vainiauda”
- Lithuanian: “Vainiuodė”
- Lithuanian: “Vainodė”
- Persian: “واینوده”
- Russian: “Вайнёде”
- Slovenian: “Vaiņode”
- Spanish: “Vaiņode”
- Swedish: “Vaiņode”
- Turkish: “Vaiņode”
- Ukrainian: “Вайньоде”
- “Vaiņode”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 Wikipedia page “Vaiņode”. Photo: J. Sedols, CC BY 3.0.