Jena

Jena is a locality in , and has about 105,000 residents. Jena is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near the locality .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zeiss-Planetarium Jena and Jena Phyletisches Museum.

Planetarium
Photo: Selby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Zeiss-Planetarium in , Germany, is the oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world. Engineered by German engineer Walther Bauersfeld, the building was opened on 18 July 1926.

Museum
Photo: Gunnar brehm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in the German town of . It was established by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, as an institute dedicated to explaining evolution to the public.

Garden
Photo: Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Botanischer Garten Jena is the second oldest in , maintained by the University of Jena and located at Fürstengraben 26, , , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neulobeda and Lobeda.

Suburb
Photo: Hamster3, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is the largest district of the university town with over 22,000 residents. The residents are distributed over an area of 3.6 km. is situated 5 km south of Jena.

Suburb
Photo: Oglobeda, Public domain.
is a former independent city in , Germany, which is now a district of known as Lobeda-Old Town. It was incorporated in 1946, has just under 2000 inhabitants on an area of 3.36 square kilometers and is located just under 4.5 kilometers south of the city center. is situated 4 km south of Jena.

Village
Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district Saale-Holzland, in , . is situated 6 km north of Jena.

Jena

Latitude
50.9288° or 50° 55′ 44″ north
Longitude
11.5899° or 11° 35′ 24″ east
Population
105,000
Elevation
149 metres (489 feet)
IATA airport code
ZJS
United Nations Location Code
DE JEN
Open location code
9F2HWHHQ+GX
Geo­Names ID
2895044
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Jena” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يينا”
  • Bashkir: “Йена”
  • Belarusian: “Іена”
  • Bishnupriya: “জেনা”
  • Bulgarian: “Йена”
  • Catalan: “Jena”
  • Chinese: “耶拿”
  • Czech: “Jena”
  • Danish: “Jena”
  • Dutch: “Jena”
  • Esperanto: “Jena”
  • Estonian: “Jena”
  • Finnish: “Jena”
  • French: “Iéna”
  • Georgian: “იენა”
  • German: “Jena”
  • Greek: “Ιένα”
  • Hebrew: “יינה”
  • Hindi: “जेना”
  • Hungarian: “Jéna”
  • Indonesian: “Jena”
  • Italian: “Jena”
  • Japanese: “イェーナ”
  • Kazakh: “Йена”
  • Korean: “예나”
  • Latin: “Iena”
  • Latvian: “Jēna”
  • Lithuanian: “Jėna”
  • Macedonian: “Јена”
  • Newari: “जेना”
  • Norwegian: “Jena”
  • Persian: “ینا”
  • Polish: “Jena”
  • Portuguese: “Jena”
  • Romanian: “Jena”
  • Russian: “Йена”
  • Serbian: “Јена”
  • Spanish: “Jena”
  • Swedish: “Jena”
  • Turkish: “Jena”
  • Ukrainian: “Єна”
  • Vietnamese: “Jena”
  • Western Panjabi: “جینا”

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