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 and center of Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Domesnes”, “Kolka, Latvia”, “Kolke-Sen”, and “Kūolka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Kolka.
Cape Kolka
Scenic viewpoint
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
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
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″ north
Longitude
22.5895° or 22° 35′ 22″ east
Population
870
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
9G94PHWQ+JQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Kolka from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- 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”
- Latvian: “Kūolka”
- Lithuanian: “Kolka”
- Low German: “Kolka”
- Luxembourgish: “Kolka”
- Minangkabau: “Kolka”
- Northern Frisian: “Kolka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kolka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kolka”
- Persian: “کولکا، لتونی”
- Persian: “کولکا”
- 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”
- Urdu: “کولکا، لٹویا”
- Welsh: “Kolka”
- “Kolka”
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