Kovel
Kovel is a city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kovel Raion within the oblast. Population: 67,575. Kovel gives its name to one of the oldest runic inscriptions which were lost during World War II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Iramal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Nataliya Shestakova, CC BY 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kovel railway station and Kovel Museum of Local Lore.
Kovel railway station
Railway station
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.
Kovel is a railway hub of the Rivne directory of Lviv Railways. Along with Zabolottia railway station also serves as a rail border checkpoint at Belarus-Ukraine border. Kovel Station also has rail yard and locomotive depot.
Resurrection Cathedral, Kovel
Church
Photo: Loraine, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Resurrection Cathedral, Kovel is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Volia-Kovelska and Verbka.
Verbka
Village
Photo: Loraine, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Verbka is a village, which is situated 3½ km north of Kovel.
Zelena
Village
Photo: Sparrov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zelena is a village, which is situated 4½ km south of Kovel.
Kovel
- Type: Town with 68,700 residents
- Description: city of regional significance of Ukraine
- Categories: city of regional significance of Ukraine, Royal city in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Kovel, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.2121° or 51° 12′ 44″ northLongitude
24.7089° or 24° 42′ 32″ eastPopulation
68,700Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)United Nations Location Code
UA KVLOpen location code
9G366P65+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 146651245OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Kovel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوفل”
- Armenian: “Կովել”
- Azerbaijani: “Kovel”
- Bashkir: “Ковель”
- Belarusian: “Ковель”
- Belarusian: “Ковэль”
- Bulgarian: “Ковел”
- Catalan: “Kòvel”
- Cebuano: “Kovel‘”
- Cebuano: “Kovel’”
- Chechen: “Ковель”
- Chinese: “科韋利”
- Chinese: “科韦利”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kovel”
- Croatian: “Kovelj”
- Czech: “Kovel”
- Danish: “Kovel”
- Dutch: “Kovel (stad)”
- Dutch: “Kovel”
- Eastern Mari: “Ковель”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوفل”
- Erzya: “Ковэль”
- Esperanto: “Kovel”
- Estonian: “Kovel”
- Finnish: “Kovel”
- French: “Kovel”
- Georgian: “კოველი”
- German: “Kowel”
- Greek: “Κόβελ”
- Hebrew: “קאוולא”
- Hebrew: “קאוולי”
- Hebrew: “קאוועל”
- Hebrew: “קובל”
- Hebrew: “קובלה”
- Hebrew: “קובלי”
- Hungarian: “Kovel”
- Irish: “Kovel”
- Italian: “Kovel‘”
- Italian: “Kovel’”
- Italian: “Kovel”
- Italian: “Kowel”
- Japanese: “コーヴェリ”
- Japanese: “コーベル”
- Japanese: “コヴェリ”
- Korean: “코벨”
- Latvian: “Koveļa”
- Lithuanian: “Kovelis”
- Luxembourgish: “Kowel”
- Maltese: “Kovel”
- Moksha: “Ковэль”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kovel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kowel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kovel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kowel”
- Norwegian: “Kovel”
- Ossetian: “Ковель”
- Persian: “کوول”
- Polish: “Kowel”
- Portuguese: “Kovel‘”
- Portuguese: “Kovel”
- Romanian: “Kovel”
- Romanian: “Kowel”
- Russian: “Ковель”
- Rusyn: “Ковель”
- Serbian: “Ковељ”
- Silesian: “Kowel”
- Slovenian: “Kovel”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوول”
- Spanish: “Kovel”
- Spanish: “Kóvel”
- Spanish: “Kowel”
- Swedish: “Kovel”
- Tatar: “Ковел”
- Tatar: “Ковель”
- Thai: “กอแวล”
- Turkish: “Kovel”
- Ukrainian: “Kovel”
- Ukrainian: “Ковель”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kowel”
- Uzbek: “Kovel”
- Vietnamese: “Kovel”
- Welsh: “Kovel”
- Yiddish: “קאוולע”
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