Bauska
Bauska is a town in Zemgale, 66 km from Riga and 20 km from the Lithuanian border, at the confluence of the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers where they form the Lielupe river.
- Type: Town with 9,570 residents
- Description: city and capital of Bauska Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Bauskas novads”, “Bauskas pilsēta”, “Bosko”, “Marienland”, “Баўск”, “Бауске”, “Баўске”, “באוסק”, and “בויסק”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bauska castle museum and Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit.
Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit
Church
St. George’s Church, Bauska
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mūsa and Saulaine.
Bauska
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Bauska Municipality, Zemgale, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.4083° or 56° 24′ 30″ north
Longitude
24.1877° or 24° 11′ 16″ east
Population
9,570
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LV BAU
Open location code
9G86C55Q+83
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Volapük—“Bauska” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ባውስካ”
- Arabic: “باساكا”
- Armenian: “Բաուսկա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bauska”
- Bashkir: “Бауска”
- Basque: “Bauska”
- Belarusian: “Баўска”
- Bengali: “বাউস্কা”
- Bulgarian: “Бауска”
- Catalan: “Bauska”
- Cebuano: “Bauska”
- Chinese: “包斯卡”
- Czech: “Bauska”
- Danish: “Bauska”
- Dutch: “Bauska”
- Esperanto: “Bauska”
- Estonian: “Bauska”
- Finnish: “Bauska”
- French: “Bauska”
- Georgian: “ბაუსკა”
- German: “Bauska”
- German: “Bauske” (historical)
- Greek: “Μπαούσκα”
- Greek: “Μπάουσκα”
- Hausa: “Bauska”
- Hebrew: “באוסקה”
- Hindi: “बाउस्का”
- Hungarian: “Bauska”
- Indonesian: “Bauska”
- Italian: “Bauska”
- Japanese: “バウスカ”
- Javanese: “Bauska”
- Kazakh: “Bawska”
- Kazakh: “Бауска”
- Kazakh: “باۋسكا”
- Kirghiz: “Бауска”
- Korean: “바우스카”
- Latvian: “Bauska”
- Lithuanian: “Bauskė”
- Malay: “Bauska”
- Moksha: “Бауска”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bauska”
- Norwegian: “Bauska”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bauska”
- Oromo: “Bauska”
- Panjabi: “ਬੌਸਕਾ”
- Persian: “باوسکا”
- Polish: “Bauska”
- Polish: “Bowsk”
- Portuguese: “Bauska”
- Pushto: “باوسکا”
- Russian: “Бауск” (historical)
- Russian: “Бауска”
- Samogitian: “Bauskė”
- Serbian: “Bauska”
- Serbian: “Бауска”
- Somali: “Bauska”
- Spanish: “Bauska”
- Swahili: “Bauska”
- Swedish: “Bauska”
- Tajik: “Бауска”
- Tatar: “Бауска”
- Turkish: “Bauska”
- Ukrainian: “Бауска”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bauska”
- Urdu: “باوسکا”
- Uzbek: “Bauska”
- Volapük: “Bauska”
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