Vltava
The Vltava is the longest river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe River. It runs southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice, and Prague.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: longest river in Czechia and biggest tributary of the river Elbe
- Also known as: “Moldau” and “Vltava River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hořín Lock and Church of Sts Peter and Paul (Mělník).
Funeral Chapel of the Lobkowicz Family
Public building
Photo: Robert86, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Funeral Chapel of the Lobkowicz Family is a public building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hořín and Mělník.
Hořín
Village
Hořín is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Mělník
Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mělník is a city in Central Bohemia. It lies on the confluence of two of Bohemia most important rivers - Vltava and Elbe. It is located 25 km north of Prague.
Vltava
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Czech Republic, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Vltava” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moldau”
- Albanian: “Lumi Moldau”
- Albanian: “Moldau”
- Arabic: “الفلتافا”
- Arabic: “فلتافا”
- Arabic: “نهر الفلتافا”
- Arabic: “نهر فلتافا”
- Armenian: “Վլտավա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Vltava”
- Azerbaijani: “Vltava çayı”
- Basque: “Moldava”
- Basque: “Vltava”
- Belarusian: “Влтава”
- Belarusian: “Вэлтава”
- Belarusian: “Рака Влтава”
- Bosnian: “Vltava”
- Breton: “Vltava”
- Bulgarian: “Влтава”
- Bulgarian: “Вълтава”
- Catalan: “Moldava”
- Catalan: “Riu Vltava”
- Catalan: “Vltava”
- Cebuano: “Vltava”
- Chinese: “伏尔塔瓦河”
- Chinese: “伏爾塔瓦河”
- Chinese: “沃尔塔瓦河”
- Chinese: “莫爾島河”
- Chinese: “莫爾道河”
- Croatian: “Vltava”
- Czech: “Vltava”
- Danish: “Moldau”
- Danish: “Vltava”
- Dutch: “Moldau”
- Dutch: “Vlatava”
- Dutch: “Vltava”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر فلتافا”
- Esperanto: “Vltava”
- Esperanto: “Vultavo”
- Estonian: “Vltava”
- Finnish: “Moldau”
- Finnish: “Vltava”
- French: “Moldau”
- French: “Vltava”
- Galician: “Moldava”
- Galician: “Río Moldava”
- Georgian: “ვლტავა”
- German: “Moldau”
- German: “Vltava”
- Greek: “Μολδάβας”
- Hebrew: “וולטאבה”
- Hebrew: “ולטאבה”
- Hebrew: “ולטבה”
- Hebrew: “ולטווה”
- Hebrew: “מולדבה”
- Hungarian: “Moldva”
- Icelandic: “Moldá”
- Ido: “Vltava”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Vltava”
- Interlingue: “Vltava”
- Irish: “Vltava”
- Italian: “Moldava”
- Italian: “Vltava”
- Japanese: “ヴルタヴァ”
- Japanese: “ヴルタヴァ川”
- Japanese: “ブルタバ”
- Japanese: “ブルタバ川”
- Japanese: “モルダウ”
- Japanese: “モルダウ川”
- Kazakh: “Влтава”
- Kirghiz: “Влтава дарыясы”
- Korean: “몰다우 강”
- Korean: “몰다우”
- Korean: “블타바”
- Korean: “블타바강”
- Ladin: “Vltava”
- Latin: “Multavia”
- Latvian: “Vltava”
- Limburgan: “Moldau”
- Lithuanian: “Vltava”
- Lombard: “Moldava”
- Luxembourgish: “Moldau”
- Luxembourgish: “Vltava”
- Macedonian: “В’лтава”
- Mazanderani: “ولتاوا”
- Mongolian: “Влтава гол”
- Northern Frisian: “Moldau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moldau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vltava”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moldau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vltava”
- Norwegian: “Vltava”
- Ossetian: “Влтавæ”
- Ossetian: “Влтава”
- Persian: “مولداو”
- Persian: “ولتاوا”
- Piemontese: “Moldava”
- Piemontese: “Mòldava”
- Polish: “Vltava”
- Polish: “Wełtawa”
- Portuguese: “Moldava”
- Portuguese: “Rio Moldava”
- Portuguese: “Rio vltava”
- Portuguese: “Vltava”
- Quechua: “Wultawa mayu”
- Romanian: “Râul Moldau”
- Romanian: “Râul Vltava”
- Romanian: “Vlatava”
- Romanian: “Vltava”
- Russian: “Влтава”
- Rusyn: “Вылтава”
- Scots: “Vltava”
- Serbian: “Vltava”
- Serbian: “Влтава”
- Serbian: “Река Влтава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vltava”
- Silesian: “Moldawa”
- Slovak: “Vltava”
- Slovenian: “Vltava”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولتاوا چایی”
- Spanish: “Moldau”
- Spanish: “Moldava”
- Spanish: “Rio Moldava”
- Spanish: “Río Moldava”
- Spanish: “Rio Moldova”
- Spanish: “Río Moldova”
- Spanish: “Rio Vltava”
- Spanish: “Río Vltava”
- Spanish: “Vltava”
- Swedish: “Vltava (vattendrag i Tjeckien)”
- Swedish: “Vltava”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Moldava”
- Tagalog: “Moldava”
- Tagalog: “Vltava”
- Tamil: “வில்தாவா ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำม็อลเดา”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำวัลตาวา”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเวิลตาวา”
- Turkish: “Vltava”
- Ukrainian: “Влтава”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vltava”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wołtawa”
- Urdu: “ولٹاوا”
- Venetian: “Fiume Moldava”
- Veps: “Vltav”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Vltava”
- Vietnamese: “Vltava”
- Vlaams: “Moldau”
- Welsh: “Afon Vltava”
- Western Frisian: “Moldau”
- Wu Chinese: “伏尔塔瓦河”
- “Vltava”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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