Jaunjelgava
Jaunjelgava is a town on the left bank of the Daugava River in Aizkraukle Municipality, in the Selonia region of Latvia, about 80 km southeast of Riga. The population in 2020 was 1,762.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,220 residents
- Description: city in Latvia
- Also known as: “Friedrichstadt”, “Jaunjelgavas novads”, “Yaun-Yelgava”, and “Yaunelgava”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Klidziņa and Skrīveri.
Skrīveri
Village
Photo: Modris Putns, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skrīveri is a village in the Skrīveri Parish of Aizkraukle Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, near the Riga–Daugavpils Railway. Skrīveri had 2,424 residents in 2022. Skrīveri is situated 4½ km northeast of Jaunjelgava.
Sērene
Village
Photo: Alek Sandrs, CC BY 3.0.
Sērene is a village, which is situated 8 km southeast of Jaunjelgava.
Jaunjelgava
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Jaunjelgava, Aizkraukle Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
56.616° or 56° 36′ 58″ northLongitude
25.07973° or 25° 4′ 47″ eastPopulation
2,220Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV JNJOpen location code
9G87J38H+9VOpenStreetMap ID
node 60616322OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Jaunjelgava” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جاونيلغافا”
- Armenian: “Յաունելգավա”
- Basque: “Friedrichstadt”
- Belarusian: “Яўн’елгава”
- Belarusian: “Яўнелгава”
- Belarusian: “Яўньелгава”
- Bulgarian: “Яунелгава”
- Bulgarian: “Яунйелгава”
- Catalan: “Friedrichstadt”
- Catalan: “Jaunjelgava”
- Cebuano: “Jaunjelgava”
- Chinese: “新叶尔加瓦”
- Chinese: “新葉爾加瓦”
- Czech: “Jaunjelgava (Latvia)”
- Czech: “Jaunjelgava”
- Danish: “Jaunjelgava”
- Dutch: “Friedrichstadt”
- Dutch: “Jaunjelgava”
- Esperanto: “Friedrichstadt”
- Esperanto: “Jaunjelgava”
- Esperanto: “Jaunjelgavas novads”
- Estonian: “Jaunjelgava”
- Finnish: “Jaunjelgava”
- French: “Friedrichstadt”
- French: “Jaunjelgava”
- Georgian: “იაუნელგავა”
- German: “Friedrichstadt”
- German: “Jaunjelgava”
- German: “Jaunjelgavas novads”
- Hungarian: “Jaunjelgava”
- Italian: “Friedrichstadt”
- Italian: “Jaunjelgava”
- Japanese: “ヤウニェルガヴァ”
- Japanese: “ヤウネルラヴァ”
- Kazakh: “Yawnelgava”
- Kazakh: “Яунелгава”
- Kazakh: “ياۋنەلگاۆا”
- Korean: “야우넬가바”
- Latvian: “Frīdrihštate”
- Latvian: “Jaunjelgava”
- Latvian: “Jaunjelgavas pilsēta ar lauku teritoriju”
- Latvian: “Jaunjelgavas pilsēta”
- Lithuanian: “Jaunjelgava”
- Moksha: “Яуньелгава”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Friedrichstadt”
- Persian: “یاونیلگاوا”
- Polish: “Frydrychsztat”
- Polish: “Jaunjelgava”
- Russian: “Фридрихштадт” (historical)
- Russian: “Яунелгава”
- Russian: “Яунъелгава”
- Samogitian: “Jaunjelgava”
- Spanish: “Friedrichstadt”
- Spanish: “Jaunjelgava”
- Swedish: “Jaunjelgava”
- Tajik: “Яунелгава”
- Ukrainian: “Яун’єлгава”
- Ukrainian: “Яунєлгава”
- Ukrainian: “Яуньєлгава”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jaunjelgava”
- Urdu: “یاونیئلگاوا”
- “Jaunjelgava”
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