Cape Kolka
Cape Kolka is a cape on the Baltic Sea, near the entry to Gulf of Riga, on the Livonian coast, in the Courland Peninsula of Latvia. The cape is surrounded by the Irbe Strait which serves as the natural border with Estonia.Photo: Edgars.sulcs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Cape
- Description: Cape in Latvia
- Also known as: “Cape Domesnes”, “Dandagsrags”, “Domesnes”, “Domesness”, “Mys Kolidsrags”, “Mys Kolkasrag”, and “Mys Kolkasrags”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kolka and Vaide.
Kolka
Village
Kolka is a large village in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, on the tip of Cape Kolka in Courland in Latvia, on the coast of the Gulf of Riga.
Vaide
Village
Photo: Sirujs Enobs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vaide is a village in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. It is one of the remaining twelve Livonian villages on the Livonian Coast. Vaide is situated 9 km west of Cape Kolka.
Cape Kolka
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Talsi Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Cape Kolka” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaap Kolka”
- Azerbaijani: “Kolkasraqs burnu”
- Bashkir: “Колкасрагс”
- Basque: “Kolka lurmuturra”
- Belarusian: “Колкасрагс”
- Breton: “Kab Kolka”
- Bulgarian: “Колкасрагс”
- Catalan: “Cap de Kolka”
- Cebuano: “Kolkasrags”
- Chinese: “科尔卡斯角”
- Danish: “Domesnæs”
- Danish: “Kap Kolka”
- Dutch: “Kaap Kolka”
- Estonian: “Kolka nina”
- German: “Kap Kolka”
- German: “Kolkas rags”
- Italian: “Capo Kolka”
- Latin: “Rubes promunturium”
- Latvian: “Kolkas rags”
- Latvian: “Kolkasrags”
- Lithuanian: “Kolkos kyšulys”
- Lithuanian: “Kolkos ragas”
- Macedonian: “Колка”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Domesnäs”
- Norwegian: “Domesnäs”
- Polish: “Przylądek Kolka”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Kolka”
- Russian: “Домеснес”
- Russian: “Колка (мыс)”
- Russian: “Колкасрагс”
- Russian: “Мыс Домеснес”
- Russian: “Мыс Колка”
- Slovenian: “Rt Kolka”
- Spanish: “Cabo de Kolka”
- Swedish: “Bakenhof”
- Swedish: “Domesnäs”
- Swedish: “Kolkasrags (udde i Lettland)”
- Swedish: “Kolkasrags”
- Ukrainian: “Колкасраґс (мис)”
- Ukrainian: “Колкасраґс”
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