Grobiņa
Grobiņa is a town and the administrative centre of South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, eleven kilometers east of Liepāja. It was founded by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century.
- Type: Town with 3,690 residents
- Description: city and capital of South Kurzeme Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Gerobin”, “Grobina”, “Grobiņas novads”, “Grobinya”, “Gruobynas”, “Jūrpils”, “Sēburga”, “Seeburg”, “Гробин”, “Гробіна”, “Сеебург”, and “グロビナ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Grobiņa Castle and Lutheran church in Grobiņa.
Grobiņa Castle
Castle
Photo: Semigall, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Iļģi and Cimdenieki.
Cimdenieki
Village
Cimdenieki is a small suburban settlement in Grobiņa… Cimdenieki is situated 5 km west of Grobiņa.
Zaļā birze
Suburb
Zaļā birze is one of the modern neighbourhoods… Zaļā birze is situated 6 km west of Grobiņa.
Grobiņa
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Grobiņa, South Kurzeme Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.53686° or 56° 32′ 13″ north
Longitude
21.1676° or 21° 10′ 3″ east
Population
3,690
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LV GBA
Open location code
9G83G5P9+P2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Grobiņa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Grobiņa”
- Arabic: “غروبينا”
- Basque: “Grobiņa”
- Belarusian: “Гробіня”
- Bulgarian: “Гробиня”
- Catalan: “Grobiņa”
- Cebuano: “Grobiņa”
- Chinese: “格罗比尼亚”
- Chinese: “格羅比尼亞”
- Czech: “Grobiņa”
- Danish: “Grobiņa”
- Dutch: “Grobiņa”
- Esperanto: “Grobiņa”
- Estonian: “Grobiņa”
- Finnish: “Grobiņa”
- French: “Grobiņa”
- Georgian: “გრობინია”
- German: “Grobiņa”
- Hebrew: “גרובין”
- Hungarian: “Grobiņa”
- Italian: “Grobiņa”
- Japanese: “グロビニャ”
- Kazakh: “Grobïnya”
- Kazakh: “Гробиня”
- Kazakh: “گروبىينيا”
- Korean: “그로비냐”
- Latvian: “Grobiņa”
- Lithuanian: “Gruobinia”
- Macedonian: “Гробиња”
- Moksha: “Гробиня”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grobiņa”
- Norwegian: “Grobiņa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grobiņa”
- Persian: “گروبینا”
- Polish: “Grobiņa”
- Russian: “Гробиня”
- Samogitian: “Gruobinia”
- Scots: “Grobiņa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grobiņa”
- Slovenian: “Grobiņa”
- Spanish: “Grobiņa”
- Swedish: “Grobin”
- Swedish: “Grobiņa”
- Ukrainian: “Гробіня”
- Upper Sorbian: “Grobiņa”
- Urdu: “گروبینیا”
- Vietnamese: “Grobiņa”
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