Penig
Penig is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Zwickauer Mulde, 19 km northwest of Chemnitz.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,900 residents
- Description: municipality in Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “14522460” and “Stadt Penig”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ruine Zinnberg and Polish-Saxon Post Milestone Penig.
Polish-Saxon Post Milestone Penig
Historic site
Photo: Kora27, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Polish-Saxon Post Milestone Penig is a historic site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lunzenau and Amerika.
Lunzenau
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lunzenau is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Zwickauer Mulde, 16 km west of Mittweida, and 18 km northwest of Chemnitz. Lunzenau is situated 4½ km northeast of Penig.
Amerika
Hamlet
Photo: Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag Meißen, CC0.
Amerika is a former company settlement in the German state of Saxony and a district of the town of Penig. A small village of 79 residents, it is known merely for its name, the German word for America, which was given to it in the 19th century.
Penig
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.9332° or 50° 55′ 60″ northLongitude
12.7076° or 12° 42′ 27″ eastPopulation
4,900Elevation
238 metres (781 feet)Open location code
9F2JWPM5+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 28396755OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6550781Wikidata ID
Q71145
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Penig” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Penig”
- Arabic: “بنيغ”
- Arabic: “بينيغ”
- Aragonese: “Penig”
- Arpitan: “Penig”
- Asturian: “Penig”
- Bashkir: “Пениг”
- Basque: “Penig”
- Bavarian: “Penig”
- Breton: “Penig”
- Catalan: “Penig”
- Cebuano: “Penig”
- Chechen: “Пениг”
- Chinese: “佩尼希”
- Corsican: “Penig”
- Croatian: “Penig”
- Czech: “Penig”
- Danish: “Penig”
- Dutch: “Penig”
- Esperanto: “Penig”
- Estonian: “Penig”
- Finnish: “Penig”
- French: “Penig”
- Friulian: “Penig”
- Galician: “Penig”
- German: “Benick”
- German: “Benig”
- German: “Penek”
- German: “Penic”
- German: “Penick”
- German: “Penig”
- German: “Penyk”
- German: “Wissepnig”
- Greek: “Πένιγκ”
- Hebrew: “פניג”
- Hungarian: “Penig”
- Icelandic: “Penig”
- Ido: “Penig”
- Indonesian: “Penig”
- Interlingua: “Penig”
- Interlingue: “Penig”
- Irish: “Penig”
- Italian: “Penig”
- Kazakh: “Пениг”
- Kirghiz: “Пениг”
- Kongo: “Penig”
- Kurdish: “Penig”
- Ladin: “Penig”
- Latvian: “Pēniga”
- Ligurian: “Penig”
- Limburgan: “Penig”
- Low German: “Penig”
- Luxembourgish: “Penig”
- Macedonian: “Пениг”
- Malagasy: “Penig”
- Malay: “Penig”
- Minangkabau: “Penig”
- Narom: “Penig”
- Neapolitan: “Penig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Penig”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penig”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Penig”
- Persian: “پنیگ”
- Picard: “Penig”
- Piemontese: “Penig”
- Polish: “Penig”
- Portuguese: “Penig”
- Romanian: “Penig”
- Romansh: “Penig”
- Russian: “Пениг”
- Sardinian: “Penig”
- Scots: “Penig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Penig”
- Serbian: “Penig”
- Serbian: “Пениг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Penig”
- Sicilian: “Penig”
- Slovak: “Penig”
- Slovenian: “Penig”
- South Azerbaijani: “پنیق”
- Spanish: “Penig”
- Swahili: “Penig”
- Swedish: “Penig”
- Swiss German: “Penig”
- Tatar: “Пениг”
- Tumbuka: “Penig”
- Turkish: “Penig”
- Ukrainian: “Пеніг”
- Upper Sorbian: “Penig”
- Uzbek: “Penig”
- Venetian: “Penig”
- Vietnamese: “Penig”
- Vlaams: “Penig”
- Volapük: “Penig”
- Walloon: “Penig”
- Waray (Philippines): “Penig”
- Welsh: “Penig”
- Wolof: “Penig”
- Zulu: “Penig”
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