Viekšniai
Viekšniai is a town in the Mažeikiai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located 17 km south-east of Mažeikiai. The etymology of the town's name probably comes from a former lake near Viekšniai.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,940 residents
- Description: city in Lithuania
- Also known as: “V’yekshnyay”, “Veckshna”, “Veiksne”, “Vėikšnē”, “Vekshne”, “Vekshni”, “Vekshnya”, “Vekshnyay”, “Vieksni”, “Viekšņi”, “Vieksniai”, “Vieksniu”, “Viekšnių”, “Viyekshnyay”, “Vyekshnya”, “Wiekschnen”, and “Wieksznie”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Orthodox church in Viekšniai and Church of St. John the Baptist, Viekšniai.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pakalupis and Užventė.
Paventė
Village
Photo: Algirdas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paventė is a village, which is situated 2½ km west of Viekšniai.
Viekšniai
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Viekšnių sen., Mažeikiai, Telšiai County, Samogitia, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
56.2357° or 56° 14′ 9″ northLongitude
22.51258° or 22° 30′ 45″ eastPopulation
1,940Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)Open location code
9G846GP7+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 270416396OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
593218Wikidata ID
Q379669
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Viekšniai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيسكشنياي”
- Armenian: “Վեկշնիայ”
- Armenian: “Վեկշնյայ”
- Asturian: “Viekšniai”
- Belarusian: “Векшне”
- Belarusian: “Векшні”
- Belarusian: “Векшнэ”
- Belarusian: “Векшня”
- Belarusian: “Векшняй”
- Belarusian: “Віекшней”
- Catalan: “Vieksniai”
- Catalan: “Viekšniai”
- Cebuano: “Vieksniai”
- Cebuano: “Viekšniai”
- Chinese: “韋克什尼艾”
- Chinese: “韦克什尼艾”
- Czech: “Vieksniai”
- Czech: “Viekšniai”
- Dimli (individual language): “Viekšniai”
- Dutch: “Vieksniai”
- Dutch: “Viekšniai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيسكشنياى”
- Esperanto: “Vieksniai”
- Esperanto: “Viekšniai”
- Estonian: “Vieksniai”
- Estonian: “Viekšniai”
- Finnish: “Vieksniai”
- Finnish: “Viekšniai”
- French: “Vieksniai”
- French: “Viekšniai”
- German: “Vieksniai”
- German: “Viekšniai”
- German: “Wiekschnen”
- Hebrew: “וקשנה”
- Italian: “Vieksniai”
- Italian: “Viekšniai”
- Latvian: “Veiksni”
- Latvian: “Viekšņi”
- Latvian: “Vieksniai”
- Latvian: “Viekšniai”
- Lithuanian: “Vieksniai”
- Lithuanian: “Viekšniai”
- Moksha: “Векшнэй”
- Nauru: “Viekšniai”
- Persian: “ویکشنیای”
- Piemontese: “Vieksniai”
- Piemontese: “Viekšniai”
- Polish: “Vieksniai”
- Polish: “Viekšniai”
- Polish: “Wieksznie”
- Portuguese: “Vieksniai”
- Portuguese: “Viekšniai”
- Russian: “Векшни”
- Russian: “Векшня”
- Russian: “Векшняй”
- Russian: “Виекшняй”
- Samogitian: “Veiksne”
- Samogitian: “Vėikšnē”
- Samogitian: “Vieksniai”
- Samogitian: “Viekšniai”
- Spanish: “Vieksniai”
- Spanish: “Viekšniai”
- Swedish: “Vieksniai”
- Swedish: “Viekšniai”
- Tatar: “Векшнәй”
- Turkish: “Viekšniai”
- Ukrainian: “Векшняй”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vieksniai”
- Upper Sorbian: “Viekšniai”
- Volapük: “Vieksniai”
- Volapük: “Viekšniai”
- Yiddish: “Vekshne”
- Yiddish: “וועקשנע”
- “Vėikšnē”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Profesorių M. V. V. Biržiškų memorialinė ekspozicija and Viekšnių seniūnija.
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