Velizh
Velizh is a town and the administrative center of Velizhsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Western Dvina, 134 kilometers from Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 7,620 ; 8,343 ; 9,146 .Photo: Департамент инвестиций, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 6,290 residents
- Description: town and administrative center of Velizhsky District of Smolensk Oblast in central Russia
- Also known as: “Veližas”, “Vielizh”, “Welisch”, “Welish”, “Wieliż”, and “город Велиж”
- Address: Велижский район, 216290
- Postal code: 216290
Velizh
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: Smolensk Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.60452° or 55° 36′ 16″ northLongitude
31.195° or 31° 11′ 42″ eastPopulation
6,290Elevation
162 metres (531 feet)Open location code
9G7HJ53V+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 173835805OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
475955Wikidata ID
Q132960
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Velizh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيليج”
- Armenian: “Վելիժ”
- Azerbaijani: “Velij”
- Belarusian: “Веліж”
- Belarusian: “Вяліж”
- Bulgarian: “Велиж”
- Catalan: “Vélij”
- Cebuano: “Velizh”
- Chechen: “Велиж”
- Chinese: “Velizh”
- Chinese: “韦利日”
- Crimean Tatar: “Velij”
- Czech: “Veliž”
- Czech: “Veližas”
- Czech: “Wieliż”
- Danish: “Velisj”
- Dimli (individual language): “Velizh”
- Dutch: “Velizj”
- Esperanto: “Veliĵ”
- Estonian: “Veliž”
- Finnish: “Veliž”
- French: “Velij”
- German: “Welisch”
- Hebrew: “וליז‘”
- Hebrew: “וליז’”
- Italian: “Veliž”
- Japanese: “ヴェリジ”
- Korean: “벨리시”
- Latin: “Velisia”
- Latvian: “Veļiža”
- Lithuanian: “Veližas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Velizh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velizj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Velizj”
- Norwegian: “Velizj”
- Ossetian: “Велиж”
- Persian: “ولیژ”
- Polish: “Wieliż”
- Romanian: “Velij”
- Russian: “Велиж”
- Serbian: “Велиж”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولیژ”
- Spanish: “Velizh”
- Spanish: “Vélizh”
- Tagalog: “Velizh”
- Talysh: “Veliž”
- Tatar: “Велиж”
- Turkish: “Velij”
- Ukrainian: “Веліж”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wjeliž”
- Urdu: “ویلیژ”
- Veps: “Veliž”
- Waray (Philippines): “Velizh”
- Welsh: “Felizh”
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