Kolka
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.- Type: Village with 870 residents
- Description: village in Latvia
- Also known as: “Domesnes”, “Kolka, Latvia”, “Kolke-Sen”, and “Kūolka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Kolka.
Cape Kolka
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Edgars.sulcs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vaide and Saunags.
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 8 km west of Kolka.
Saunags
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Saunags is a populated place in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, Latvia, located 10 kilometres from the Cape Kolka, within the borders of Slītere National Park. Saunags is situated 10 km west of Kolka.
Kolka
- Categories: village in Latvia, large village in Latvia, and locality
- Location: Kolkas pagasts, Talsi Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.74655° or 57° 44′ 48″ northLongitude
22.5895° or 22° 35′ 22″ eastPopulation
870Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
9G94PHWQ+JQOpenStreetMap ID
node 264645216OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
458682Wikidata ID
Q1626641
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kolka” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kolka”
- Albanian: “Kolka”
- Aragonese: “Kolka”
- Asturian: “Kolka”
- Basque: “Kolka”
- Bavarian: “Kolka”
- Belarusian: “Колка”
- Catalan: “Kolka”
- Cebuano: “Kolka”
- Chinese: “科尔卡村”
- Chinese: “科爾卡”
- Croatian: “Kolka”
- Czech: “Kolka”
- Danish: “Kolka”
- Dutch: “Kolka”
- Dutch: “Kūolka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولكا”
- Esperanto: “Kolka”
- Estonian: “Kolka”
- Faroese: “Kolka”
- Finnish: “Kolka”
- French: “Kolka”
- Galician: “Kolka”
- German: “Kolka”
- German: “Kūolka”
- Hebrew: “קולקה (לטביה)”
- Hungarian: “Kolka”
- Hungarian: “Kūolka”
- Icelandic: “Kolka”
- Indonesian: “Kolka”
- Italian: “Kolka”
- Latgalian: “Kolka”
- Latgalian: “Kuolka”
- Latvian: “Kolka”
- Lithuanian: “Kolka”
- Low German: “Kolka”
- Luxembourgish: “Kolka”
- Minangkabau: “Kolka”
- Northern Frisian: “Kolka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kolka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kolka”
- Persian: “کولکا، لتونی”
- Polish: “Kolka”
- Portuguese: “Kolka”
- Romanian: “Kolka”
- Romansh: “Kolka”
- Russian: “Колка”
- Scots: “Kolka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kolka”
- Slovak: “Kolka”
- Slovenian: “Kolka”
- Spanish: “Kolka”
- Swedish: “Kolka, Lettland”
- Swedish: “Kolka”
- Swiss German: “Kolka”
- Turkish: “Kolka”
- Ukrainian: “Колка”
- Welsh: “Kolka”
- “Kolka”
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