Gorodets
Gorodets is a town and the administrative center of Gorodetsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River, 53 kilometers northwest of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 30,600 residents
- Description: town in Russia founded in 1152, Nizhny Novgorod region
- Also known as: “Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast”
- Address: Городецкий район
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zavolzh’ye and Серково.
Zavolzh’ye
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Zavolzhye is a town in Gorodetsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, opposite Gorodets, the administrative centre of the district, and 56 kilometers northwest of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. Zavolzh’ye is situated 5 km west of Gorodets.
Naleskino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Hamlet
Photo: savage19, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Naleskino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km northeast of Gorodets.
Gorodets
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.6471° or 56° 38′ 50″ northLongitude
43.476° or 43° 28′ 34″ eastPopulation
30,600Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)Open location code
9H85JFWG+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 356482851OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
559678Wikidata ID
Q134506
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Gorodets” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غوروديتس”
- Armenian: “Գորոդեց”
- Azerbaijani: “Qorodets”
- Belarusian: “Гарадзец”
- Bulgarian: “Городец”
- Catalan: “Godorets”
- Cebuano: “Gorodets”
- Chechen: “Городец”
- Chinese: “Gorodets”
- Chinese: “戈罗杰茨”
- Chinese: “戈羅傑茨”
- Crimean Tatar: “Gorodets”
- Czech: “Goroděc”
- Danish: “Gorodets”
- Dutch: “Gorodets”
- Eastern Mari: “Городец”
- Erzya: “Городец ош”
- Esperanto: “Gorodec”
- Estonian: “Gorodets”
- Finnish: “Gorodets”
- French: “Gorodets”
- German: “Gorodez”
- Greek: “Γκορόντετς”
- Hungarian: “Gorogyec”
- Italian: “Gorodec”
- Japanese: “ゴロジェッツ”
- Korean: “고로데츠”
- Lithuanian: “Gorodecas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gorodets (Nizhny Novgorod Chiu)”
- Moksha: “Городец”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorodets”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gorodets”
- Norwegian: “Gorodets”
- Ossetian: “Городец”
- Persian: “گورودتس”
- Polish: “Gorodiec”
- Portuguese: “Gorodets”
- Romanian: “Gorodeț”
- Russian: “Городец”
- Russian: “Городе́ц”
- Serbian: “Городец”
- Slovenian: “Gorodec”
- South Azerbaijani: “قورودتس”
- Spanish: “Gorodets”
- Spanish: “Gorodéts”
- Talysh: “Gorodets”
- Tatar: “Городец”
- Turkish: “Gorodets”
- Ukrainian: “Городець”
- Upper Sorbian: “Gorodec”
- Veps: “Gorodec”
- Vietnamese: “Gorodets”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gorodets”
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