Liepaja
Liepāja is a state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. It is the largest city in the Courland region and the third-largest in the country after Riga and Daugavpils.Places of Interest
Highlights include Liepāja Station and St. Nicholas’s Orthodox Naval Cathedral.
Liepāja Station
Railway station
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Liepāja Station is the railway station for Liepāja on the Jelgava – Liepāja Railway.
St. Nicholas’s Orthodox Naval Cathedral
Church
Photo: Uacs451, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church located in Karosta in the north of Liepāja, Latvia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karosta and Cimdenieki.
Karosta
Suburb
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karosta is a former Russian and Soviet naval base on the Baltic Sea, which today is a neighbourhood in Liepāja, Latvia. The base was built because, when the Hohenzollern Kingdom of Prussia merged into the German Empire in 1871, Nimmersatt became its northeasternmost settlement.
Cimdenieki
Village
Cimdenieki is a small suburban settlement in Grobiņa Parish, South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. The river Ālande flows through Cimdenieki. Cimdenieki is mostly known for its proximity to Liepāja International Airport. Cimdenieki is situated 4 km southeast of Liepaja.
Liepaja
- Location: Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
56.5419° or 56° 32′ 31″ northLongitude
21.0367° or 21° 2′ 12″ eastPopulation
66,700Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
9G83G2RP+QMGeoNames ID
457955
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Veps—“Liepaja” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሊፔያ”
- Arabic: “ليباجا”
- Armenian: “Լիեպայա”
- Azerbaijani: “Liepaya”
- Belarusian: “Горад Ліепая”
- Bengali: “লিয়েপাজা”
- Breton: “Liepaja”
- Bulgarian: “Лиепая”
- Chechen: “Лиепая”
- Chinese: “利耶帕亚”
- Chuvash: “Лиепая”
- Eastern Mari: “Лиепай”
- French: “Liepaja”
- Georgian: “ლიეპაია”
- German: “Libau”
- Greek: “Λιέπαγια”
- Hausa: “Liepaja”
- Hebrew: “לייפאיה”
- Japanese: “リエパーヤ”
- Javanese: “Liepaja”
- Kazakh: “Лиепая”
- Kirghiz: “Лиепая”
- Korean: “리예파야”
- Latvian: “Liepāja”
- Lithuanian: “Liepoja”
- Malay: “Liepaja”
- Marathi: “लीपाया”
- Oromo: “Liepaja”
- Ossetian: “Лиепая”
- Panjabi: “ਲਿਪਾਯਾ”
- Persian: “لیپایا”
- Polish: “Lipawa”
- Portuguese: “Liepaja”
- Pushto: “لیپاجا”
- Russian: “Лиепая”
- Samogitian: “Lėipuojė”
- Serbian: “Лијепаја”
- Somali: “Liepaja”
- Spanish: “Liepaja”
- Swahili: “Liepaja”
- Tajik: “Лиепая”
- Tatar: “Лиепая”
- Ukrainian: “Лієпая”
- Urdu: “لیاپائیا”
- Uzbek: “Liepaja”
- Veps: “Lepai”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Liepāja Inner Naval Harbour and Garnizona Kapi.
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