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.Photo: Ziko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Stream
- 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 Rusnės tiltas and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rusnė.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Šilutė and Šyša.
Šilutė
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Šilutė is a town in Lithuania Minor, near the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast. It's a quiet market town with a population of 16,000 in 2021. The main reason to visit is to see wildlife in the Nemunas river delta and Curonian lagoon.
Šyša
Village
Photo: Hugo.arg, Public domain.
Šyša is a village, which is situated 2½ km north of Neman River.
Šyškrantė
Village
Photo: JonasS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Šyškrantė is a village, which is situated 2½ km north of Neman River.
Neman River
- Categories: river, transboundary river, and body of water
- Location: Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Neman River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
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Explore places such as Skirvytėlė and Atmata.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Žalgirių Miškas and Ragininkų sala.
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