Neman River
The Neman, Nioman, Nemunas, Niemen, or Memel, is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its southern channel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: River
- Description: river in eastern Europe
- Also known as: “Fluss Memel”, “Memel”, “Neman”, “Nemunas”, “Nenem”, “Nieman”, “Niemen”, “Nioman”, “Nyamunas”, “Nyoman”, and “Reka Memel’”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tilsit Theatre and Sovetsk train station.
Tilsit Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tilsit Theatre is a theater building.
Sovetsk train station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sovetsk train station is a railway station.
Tilsit Moose’s sculpture
Work of art
Photo: Rost.galis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tilsit Moose’s sculpture is a work of art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sovetsk and Panemunė.
Sovetsk
Photo: Rost.galis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sovetsk is a city of 39,000 people in Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
Panemunė
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Panemunė is the smallest settlement with city status in Lithuania. It is situated on the banks of the Nemunas River opposite Sovetsk, 8 km south from Pagėgiai, in Tauragė County.
Pagėgiai
Town
Photo: Shoorick, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pagėgiai is a town in south-western Lithuania. It is located in the medieval region of Scalovia in the historic region of Lithuania Minor. It is the capital of Pagėgiai municipality, and as such it is part of Tauragė County.
Neman River
- Categories: transboundary river and body of water
- Location: Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.09763° or 55° 5′ 52″ northLongitude
21.88283° or 21° 52′ 58″ eastOpen location code
9G733VXM+34OpenStreetMap ID
way 29701692OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Neman River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nemunas”
- Arabic: “نيمان”
- Armenian: “Նեման”
- Asturian: “Ríu Neman”
- Bashkir: “Неман”
- Basque: “Neman”
- Basque: “Nemunas”
- Basque: “Niemen”
- Belarusian: “Нёман”
- Belarusian: “Рака Нёман”
- Breton: “Niemen”
- Bulgarian: “Неман”
- Catalan: “Memel”
- Catalan: “Neman”
- Catalan: “Néman”
- Catalan: “Nèman”
- Catalan: “Nemunas”
- Catalan: “Niemen”
- Catalan: “Nioman”
- Catalan: “Nióman”
- Catalan: “Riu Neman”
- Cebuano: “Nemunas”
- Chinese: “尼曼河”
- Chinese: “涅曼河”
- Chuvash: “Неман”
- Croatian: “Njemen”
- Czech: “Němen”
- Danish: “Nemunas”
- Dutch: “Memel”
- Eastern Mari: “Неман”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر نيمان”
- Esperanto: “Nemunas”
- Estonian: “Nemunas”
- Finnish: “Niemen”
- French: “Niémen”
- Galician: “Río Niemen”
- Georgian: “ნემანი”
- German: “Memel”
- German: “Nẽmunas”
- German: “Njemen”
- Greek: “Νέμαν”
- Hebrew: “ניימן”
- Hungarian: “Nyeman”
- Ido: “Fluvio Neman”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Neman”
- Irish: “Abhainn Neman”
- Italian: “Nemunas”
- Japanese: “ネマン川”
- Kazakh: “Неман”
- Kirghiz: “Неман дарыясы”
- Korean: “네만 강”
- Korean: “네만강”
- Kotava: “Nemunas (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Nemunas”
- Kurdish: “Neman”
- Ladin: “Memel”
- Ladin: “Neman”
- Latin: “Nemenus”
- Latvian: “Nemuna”
- Lithuanian: “Nemunas”
- Livvi: “Neman”
- Low German: “Memel”
- Macedonian: “Мемел”
- Macedonian: “Неман”
- Macedonian: “Њемен”
- Macedonian: “Њоман”
- Malagasy: “Memel”
- Malayalam: “നെമാൻ”
- Mingrelian: “ნემანი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ნემანი”
- Mongolian: “Неман гол”
- Moroccan Arabic: “واد نيمان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nemunas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nemunas”
- Norwegian: “Nemunas”
- Ossetian: “Немæн”
- Ossetian: “Нямунас”
- Persian: “رود نمان”
- Persian: “نمان”
- Polish: “Niemen”
- Portuguese: “Rio Neman”
- Romanian: “Neman”
- Russian: “Неман”
- Samogitian: “Nemons”
- Sanskrit: “नेमुनः”
- Serbian: “Њемен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Njemen”
- Slovak: “Neman”
- Slovak: “Nemunas”
- Slovenian: “Nemen”
- South Azerbaijani: “نمان چایی”
- Spanish: “Memel”
- Spanish: “Niemen”
- Spanish: “río Memel”
- Spanish: “Río Neman”
- Spanish: “río Niemen”
- Spanish: “Río Niemen”
- Swedish: “Njemen”
- Swedish: “Njoman”
- Tagalog: “Niemen”
- Tatar: “Неман”
- Turkish: “Neman Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Німан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Memel”
- Upper Sorbian: “Njemen”
- Uzbek: “Neman”
- Venetian: “Fiume Niemen”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Neman”
- Walloon: “Niemen”
- Welsh: “Afon Neman”
- Western Frisian: “Memel”
- Wu Chinese: “尼曼河”
- Yiddish: “ניעמאן”
- Yiddish: “נעמאן”
- “Nemons”
- “Nẽmunas”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Прогулочный парк and Реформистская кирха Тильзита.
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