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.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in eastern Europe
- Also known as: “Fluss Memel”, “Neman”, “Néman”, “Nèman”, “Nenem”, “Nieman”, “Nioman”, “Nióman”, “Njoman”, “Nyamunas”, “Nyoman”, “Reka Memel’”, “río Memel”, “Мемел”, “Нямунас”, “Њоман”, “ניעמאן”, and “涅曼河”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rusnė bridge and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rusnė.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Šilutė and Šyša.
Šilutė
Šyša
Village
Photo: Hugo.arg, Public domain.
Neman River
- Categories: river, transboundary river, and body of water
- Location: Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.30194° or 55° 18′ 7″ north
Longitude
21.38167° or 21° 22′ 54″ east
Open location code
9G73892J+QM
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Wikidata ID
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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: “Niemen”
- Belarusian: “Нёман”
- Belarusian: “Рака Нёман”
- Breton: “Niemen”
- Bulgarian: “Неман”
- Catalan: “Nemunas”
- Catalan: “Riu Neman”
- Cebuano: “Nemunas”
- Chinese: “尼曼河”
- 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”
- Galician: “Río Niemen”
- Georgian: “ნემანი”
- German: “Memel”
- 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: “Неман”
- 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”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “Nemen”
- South Azerbaijani: “نمان چایی”
- Spanish: “Niemen”
- Spanish: “Río Neman”
- Spanish: “Río Niemen”
- Swedish: “Njemen”
- Tagalog: “Niemen”
- Tatar: “Неман”
- Turkish: “Neman Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Німан”
- 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: “נעמאן”
- “Nẽmunas”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Skirvytėlė and Atmata.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Žalgirių Miškas and Ragininkų sala.
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