Mērsrags
Mērsrags is a small harbor town in Talsi Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, located on the west coast of the Gulf of Riga beside Lake Engure and surrounded by extensive woodlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,860 residents
- Description: village and seat of Mērsrags Parish, Talsi Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Margraf”, “Mererags”, “Mersrag”, “Mersragciems”, “Mersragiems”, and “Mersya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mērsrags Lighthouse.
Mērsrags Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mērsrags Lighthouse - a lighthouse located on the Bay of Riga, on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea. It is located on a headland, stretching as a cape into the Bay of Riga, by a stony shoal. Mērsrags Lighthouse is situated 4 km north of Mērsrags.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ķūļciems and Bērzciems.
Bērzciems
Village
Photo: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bērzciems is a village, which is situated 9 km south of Mērsrags.
Mērsrags
- Categories: village in Latvia, large village in Latvia, and locality
- Location: Mērsraga novads, Talsi Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
57.33216° or 57° 19′ 56″ northLongitude
23.13106° or 23° 7′ 52″ eastPopulation
1,860Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV MRXOpen location code
9G9584JJ+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 59776889OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“Mērsrags” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Мэрсрагс”
- Cebuano: “Mērsrags”
- Chinese: “梅尔斯拉格斯”
- Chinese: “梅爾斯拉格斯”
- Dutch: “Mērsrags”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسراجس”
- Estonian: “Mērsrags”
- German: “Markgrafen”
- German: “Mērsraga novads”
- German: “Mersrags”
- German: “Mērsrags”
- Latgalian: “Mārsrogs”
- Latvian: “Dižciems”
- Latvian: “Ķīsterciems”
- Latvian: “Mērsrags”
- Lithuanian: “Mėrsragas”
- Macedonian: “Мерсаргс”
- Russian: “Мерсрагс”
- Serbian: “Мерсраг”
- Spanish: “Mērsrag”
- Swedish: “Mērsrags”
- Turkish: “Mersrags”
- Turkish: “Mērsrags”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mersrags Information Center and Mērsraga VPVKAC.
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