Saulkrasti
Saulkrasti is a town and the administrative center of Saulkrasti Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, on the east coast of the Gulf of Riga. Made up of a number of historic fishing settlements, the town stretches for some 17 km from the Inčupe river in the south to the village of Skulte in the north.- Type: Town with 5,310 residents
- Description: city and capital of Saulkrasti Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Neibāde”, “Neubad”, “Neybade”, and “Saulkrasty”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saulkrasti and Forstei House in Saulkrasti.
Saulkrasti
Railway station
The Zemitāni–Skulte Railway is a 52-kilometre long, 1,524 mm gauge railway in Latvia built in the 20th century to connect Riga and Rūjiena. The railway was originally part of the Mangaļi–Rūjiena Railway that opened 1937.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skulte and Lilaste.
Skulte
Village
Skulte is a village in the Skulte Parish of Limbaži Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is the administrative centre of Skulte Parish. Skulte is situated 6 km north of Saulkrasti.
Lilaste
Village
Lilaste is a village in Carnikava Parish of Ādaži Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. Located in the north of the parish on the left bank of the Lilaste river between Lake Lilaste and the coast of the Gulf of Riga, north of the Zemitāni–Skulte Railway and the A1 road, 13 km from the parish centre Carnikava, 16.5 km from the municipal centre Ādaži and 35 km from the centre of Riga. Lilaste is situated 9 km southwest of Saulkrasti.
Saulkrasti
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Saulkrasti Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.26339° or 57° 15′ 48″ north
Longitude
24.41525° or 24° 24′ 55″ east
Population
5,310
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LV SKT
Open location code
9G967C78+93
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Saulkrasti” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳውልክራስቲ”
- Arabic: “ساولكراستي”
- Azerbaijani: “Saulkrasti”
- Basque: “Neubad”
- Basque: “Saulkrasti”
- Belarusian: “Саўлкрасты”
- Bengali: “সাউলক্রাস্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Саулкрасти”
- Catalan: “Neubad”
- Catalan: “Saulkrasti”
- Cebuano: “Saulkrasti”
- Chinese: “紹爾克拉斯蒂”
- Chinese: “绍尔克拉斯蒂”
- Czech: “Saulkrasti”
- Danish: “Saulkrasti”
- Dutch: “Neubad”
- Dutch: “Saulkrasti”
- Esperanto: “Neubad”
- Esperanto: “Saulkrasti”
- Esperanto: “Saulkrastu novads”
- Estonian: “Saulkrasti”
- Finnish: “Saulkrasti”
- French: “Neubad”
- French: “Saulkrasti”
- German: “Neubad”
- German: “Saulkrasti”
- German: “Saulkrastu novads”
- Hausa: “Saulkrasti”
- Hindi: “साउलक्रास्टी”
- Hungarian: “Saulkrasti”
- Indonesian: “Saulkrasti”
- Italian: “Neubad”
- Italian: “Saulkrasti”
- Japanese: “サウルクラスチ”
- Japanese: “サウルクラスティ”
- Javanese: “Saulkrasti”
- Kazakh: “Sawlkrastı”
- Kazakh: “Саулкрасты”
- Kazakh: “ساۋلكراستى”
- Kirghiz: “Саулкрасти”
- Latin: “Litora Aprica”
- Latvian: “Neibade”
- Latvian: “Neibāde”
- Latvian: “Neubad”
- Latvian: “Saukrasti”
- Latvian: “Saulkraste”
- Latvian: “Saulkrasti”
- Lithuanian: “Saulkrastai”
- Lithuanian: “Saulkrasti”
- Malay: “Saulkrasti”
- Moksha: “Саулкрасты”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Neubad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saulkrasti”
- Oromo: “Saulkrasti”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਕ੍ਰਾਸਟੀ”
- Persian: “ساولکراستی”
- Polish: “Saulkrasti”
- Portuguese: “Saulkrasti”
- Pushto: “سالکراستی”
- Russian: “Саулкрасти”
- Russian: “Саулкрасты”
- Samogitian: “Saulkrastē”
- Slovak: “Saulkrasti”
- Slovenian: “Saulkrasti, Latvija”
- Somali: “Saulkrasti”
- Spanish: “Neubad”
- Spanish: “Saulkrasti”
- Swahili: “Saulkrasti”
- Swedish: “Saulkrasti”
- Tajik: “Саулкрасти”
- Tatar: “Саулкрасти”
- Turkish: “Saulkrasti”
- Ukrainian: “Саулкрасти”
- Upper Sorbian: “Neubad”
- Upper Sorbian: “Saulkrasti”
- Urdu: “سالکراستی”
- Uzbek: “Saulkrasti”
- “Saulkrastē”
- “Saulkrasti”
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