Salaspils
Salaspils is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is the administrative centre of Salaspils Municipality. The town is situated on the northern bank of the Daugava river, 18 kilometers to the south-east of the city of Riga.
- Type: Town with 17,800 residents
- Description: city and capital of Salaspils Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Kerkholm”, “Kirchholm”, “Kirchholmas”, “Salaspils (kapital sa munisipyo sa Latvia)”, “Кирхгольм”, and “Куртенгоф”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Salaspils Station and National Botanic Garden of Latvia.
Salaspils Station
Railway station
Salaspils Station is a railway station on the Riga–Daugavpils Railway.
National Botanic Garden of Latvia
Garden
The National Botanic Garden of Latvia is a botanical garden in Salaspils, Latvia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salaspils and Dārziņi.
Dārziņi
Suburb
Dārziņi is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia, which is located in the Latgale Suburb. Dārziņi is situated 5 km west of Salaspils.
Salaspils
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Salaspils, Salaspils Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.86345° or 56° 51′ 48″ north
Longitude
24.35452° or 24° 21′ 16″ east
Population
17,800
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LV SPS
Open location code
9G86V973+9R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Võro—“Salaspils” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳላስፒልስ”
- Arabic: “سالاسبليس”
- Arabic: “سالاسبيلس”
- Armenian: “Սալասպիլս”
- Azerbaijani: “Salaspils”
- Basque: “Salaspils”
- Belarusian: “Саласпілс”
- Belarusian: “Саласьпілс”
- Bengali: “সালাস্পিলস”
- Bulgarian: “Саласпилс”
- Catalan: “Salaspils”
- Cebuano: “Salaspils (kapital sa munisipyo sa Latwiya)”
- Cebuano: “Salaspils”
- Chechen: “Саласпилс”
- Chinese: “萨拉斯皮尔斯”
- Chinese: “薩拉斯皮爾斯”
- Czech: “Salaspils”
- Danish: “Salaspils”
- Dutch: “Salaspils”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سالاسبليس”
- Esperanto: “Salaspils”
- Estonian: “Salaspils”
- Finnish: “Salaspils”
- French: “Salaspils”
- German: “Kircholm”
- German: “Salaspils”
- Hausa: “Salaspils”
- Hindi: “सालासपिल्स”
- Hindi: “सालास्पिल्स”
- Hungarian: “Salaspils”
- Indonesian: “Salaspils”
- Italian: “Salaspils”
- Japanese: “サラスピルス”
- Javanese: “Salaspils”
- Kazakh: “Salaspïls”
- Kazakh: “Саласпилс”
- Kazakh: “سالاسپىيلس”
- Kirghiz: “Саласпилс”
- Korean: “살라스필스”
- Latgalian: “Solyspiļs”
- Latin: “Holma”
- Latvian: “Salaspils”
- Lithuanian: “Salaspilis”
- Malay: “Salaspils”
- Moksha: “Саласпилс”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salaspils”
- Norwegian: “Salaspils”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Salaspils”
- Oromo: “Salaspils”
- Ossetian: “Саласпилс”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਾਸਪਿਲਸ”
- Persian: “سالاسپیلس”
- Polish: “Salaspils”
- Portuguese: “Salaspils”
- Pushto: “سالاسپلس”
- Romanian: “Salaspils”
- Russian: “Саласпилс”
- Samogitian: “Salaspėlės”
- Samogitian: “Salaspėlis”
- Serbian: “Salaspils”
- Serbian: “Саласпил”
- Serbian: “Саласпилс”
- Serbian: “Саласпољ”
- Slovak: “Salaspils”
- Somali: “Salaspils”
- Spanish: “Salaspils”
- Swahili: “Salaspils”
- Swedish: “Kirkholm”
- Swedish: “Salaspils”
- Tajik: “Саласпилс”
- Tatar: “Саласпилс”
- Turkish: “Salaspils”
- Ukrainian: “Саласпілс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Salaspils”
- Urdu: “سالاس پلس”
- Urdu: “سالاسپلس”
- Uzbek: “Salaspils”
- Volapük: “Salaspils”
- Võro: “Salaspils”
- “Salaspils”
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