Jelgava
Jelgava is a state city in central Latvia. It is located about 41 kilometres southwest of Riga. It is the largest town in the Semigallia region of Latvia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 63,500 residents
- Description: city in central Latvia
- Also known as: “Iyelgava”, “Jelgawa”, “Mitau”, “Mitava”, and “Mitawa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Academia Petrina and St. Simeon and St. Anne’s Cathedral, Jelgava.
Academia Petrina
Museum
Photo: Nataliza01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jelgava Gymnasium or Academia Petrina is the oldest higher educational establishment in Latvia. Based on an idea by Friedrich Wilhelm von Raison, it was established in Mitau, capital of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, by Duke Peter von Biron in 1775.
St. Simeon and St. Anne’s Cathedral, Jelgava
Church
The Cathedral of Sts Simeon and Anne, located at 12 Akadēmijas Street in Jelgava, is a cathedral of the Latvian Orthodox Church, one of four Orthodox cathedrals in Latvia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ozolnieki and Āne.
Ozolnieki
Village
Photo: Riharcc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ozolnieki is a village in Ozolnieki Parish, Jelgava Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. The village is located at Iecava river approximately 36 km from the capital Riga and 6 km from the city of Jelgava.
Āne
Village
Āne is a large village in Cena Parish, Jelgava Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. The village is located on the Lielupe River approximately 38 km from the capital city of Riga and 7 km from city of Jelgava.
Jelgava
- Categories: state city of Latvia, city under state jurisdiction in Latvia, and locality
- Location: Zemgale, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
56.6514° or 56° 39′ 5″ northLongitude
23.7339° or 23° 44′ 2″ eastPopulation
63,500Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV JGAOpen location code
9G85MP2M+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 26707263OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Jelgava” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Jelgava”
- Arabic: “يلغافا”
- Armenian: “Ելգավա”
- Asturian: “Jelgava”
- Azerbaijani: “Yelqava”
- Azerbaijani: “Yelqаvа”
- Basque: “Jelgava”
- Basque: “Mitau”
- Basque: “Mitava”
- Basque: “Mitawa”
- Belarusian: “Елгава”
- Belarusian: “Елґава”
- Belarusian: “Мітава”
- Bengali: “জেলাগাভা”
- Bengali: “জেল্গাভা”
- Breton: “Jelgava”
- Bulgarian: “Елгава”
- Bulgarian: “Йелгава”
- Bulgarian: “Митава”
- Catalan: “Jelgava”
- Catalan: “Mitau”
- Catalan: “Mitava”
- Catalan: “Mitawa”
- Cebuano: “Jelgava (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Jelgava”
- Chechen: “Елгава”
- Chinese: “叶尔加瓦”
- Chinese: “叶尔加瓦市”
- Chinese: “葉爾加瓦”
- Chuvash: “Елгава”
- Croatian: “Jelgava”
- Czech: “Jelgava”
- Danish: “Jelgava”
- Danish: “Mitau”
- Dutch: “Jelgava”
- Dutch: “Mitau”
- Dutch: “Mitava”
- Dutch: “Mitawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يلجافا”
- Esperanto: “Jelgava”
- Esperanto: “Mitau”
- Esperanto: “Mitava”
- Esperanto: “Mitawa”
- Estonian: “Jelgava”
- Estonian: “Miitav”
- Estonian: “Miitavi”
- Estonian: “Mitau”
- Finnish: “Jelgava”
- Finnish: “Mitau”
- Finnish: “Mitava”
- French: “Jelgava”
- French: “Mitau”
- French: “Mitava”
- French: “Mittau”
- Galician: “Jelgava”
- Georgian: “ელგავა”
- German: “Jelgava”
- German: “Mitau”
- German: “Mitava”
- German: “Mitawa”
- German: “Republik-Stadt Jelgava”
- Greek: “Γιέλγκαβα”
- Gujarati: “જેલગાવા”
- Hebrew: “ילגאבה”
- Hebrew: “ילגבה”
- Hebrew: “מיטאבה”
- Hebrew: “מיטאו”
- Hebrew: “מיטאוה”
- Hebrew: “מיטאווה”
- Hebrew: “מיטבה”
- Hebrew: “מיטווה”
- Hebrew: “מיטוי”
- Hindi: “जेलगावा”
- Hindi: “जेल्गावा”
- Hungarian: “Jelgava”
- Ido: “Jelgava”
- Inari Sami: “Jelgava”
- Indonesian: “Jelgava”
- Italian: “Jelgava”
- Italian: “Mintauja”
- Italian: “Mitau”
- Italian: “Mittau”
- Japanese: “イェルガヴァ”
- Japanese: “イェルガバ”
- Japanese: “エルガヴァ”
- Japanese: “エルガバ”
- Japanese: “ジェルガヴァ”
- Japanese: “ジェルガバ”
- Japanese: “ミタウ”
- Japanese: “ヤルガヴァ”
- Japanese: “ヤルガバ”
- Kalaallisut: “Jelgava”
- Kannada: “ಜೆಲ್ಗವ”
- Kannada: “ಜೆಲ್ಗಾವಾ”
- Kashubian: “Jelgava”
- Kazakh: “Elgava”
- Kazakh: “Елгава”
- Kazakh: “ەلگاۆا”
- Kirghiz: “Елгава”
- Korean: “옐가바”
- Latgalian: “Meitova”
- Latin: “Mitavia”
- Latvian: “Jelgava”
- Latvian: “Jelgavas pilsēta”
- Latvian: “Mitau”
- Latvian: “Mītava”
- Lithuanian: “Jelgava”
- Lithuanian: “Mintauja”
- Luxembourgish: “Jelgava”
- Macedonian: “Јелгава”
- Malay: “Jelgava”
- Marathi: “जेऌगवा”
- Marathi: “जेलगावा”
- Marathi: “येल्गाव्हा”
- Moksha: “Елгава”
- Northern Frisian: “Jelgava”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jelgava”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mitau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mitawa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jelgava”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mintauja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mitau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mītava”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mitaw”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mitawa”
- Norwegian: “Jelgava”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jelgava”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mitau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mitava”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mitawa”
- Ossetian: “Елгавæ”
- Persian: “یلگاوا”
- Piemontese: “Jelgava”
- Polish: “Jelgava”
- Polish: “Jełgawa”
- Polish: “Mitawa”
- Portuguese: “Jelgava”
- Portuguese: “Mitau”
- Romanian: “Jelgava”
- Russian: “Елгава”
- Russian: “Митава” (historical)
- Russian: “Митау”
- Samogitian: “Jelgava”
- Scots: “Jelgava”
- Serbian: “Jelgava”
- Serbian: “Град Јелгава”
- Serbian: “Јелгава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jelgava”
- Silesian: “Jelgava”
- Sinhala: “ජෙල්ගවා”
- Sinhala: “ජෙල්ගාවා”
- Slovak: “Jelgava”
- Slovenian: “Jelgava”
- Spanish: “Jelgava”
- Spanish: “Mitau”
- Spanish: “Mitava”
- Spanish: “Mitawa”
- Swedish: “Jelgava”
- Swedish: “Mintauja”
- Swedish: “Mitau”
- Swedish: “Mitava”
- Swedish: “Mitawa”
- Tamil: “ஜெல்கவா”
- Tatar: “Елгава”
- Telugu: “జెల్గావా”
- Thai: “เยลกาวา”
- Thai: “แย็ลกาวา”
- Turkish: “Jelgava”
- Ukrainian: “Єлгава”
- Ukrainian: “Митава”
- Ukrainian: “Мітава”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jelgava”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mitau, Mitawa”
- Urdu: “یالگاوا”
- Uzbek: “Yelgava”
- Veps: “Elgav”
- Vietnamese: “Jelgava”
- Volapük: “Jelgava”
- Võro: “Jelgava”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jelgava”
- Welsh: “Jelgava”
- Wu Chinese: “叶尔加瓦”
- Yue Chinese: “葉爾加瓦”
- “Jelgava”
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