Central Europe
Germany
Thuringia

Jena

Jena is a city in the central state of . It is a centre of science and technology with a reputable university, several research institutes and high-tech plants, especially focusing on precision mechanics and optical industries.
Tap on a place
to explore it
jena.de
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Lars0001, Public domain.
Photo: Wimox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: City with 111,000 residents
  • Description: city in Thuringia, Germany
  • Also known as: “16053000” and “Stadt Jena”
Photo: Martin Hedegaard, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Joterr, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zeiss-Planetarium Jena and Jena Phyletisches Museum.

Planetarium
Photo: Selby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, Germany, is the oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world. Engineered by German engineer Walther Bauersfeld, the building was opened on 18 July 1926.

Museum
Photo: Gunnar brehm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in the German town of Jena. It was established by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, as an institute dedicated to explaining evolution to the public.

Garden
Photo: Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Botanischer Garten Jena is the second oldest in , maintained by the University of Jena and located at Fürstengraben 26, Jena, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Neulobeda and Lobeda.

Suburb
Photo: Hamster3, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is the largest district of the university town Jena with over 22,000 residents. The residents are distributed over an area of 3.6 km2.

Suburb
Photo: Oglobeda, Public domain.
is a former independent city in , Germany, which is now a district of Jena known as Lobeda-Old Town. It was incorporated in 1946, has just under 2000 inhabitants on an area of 3.36 square kilometers and is located just under 4.5 kilometers south of the city center.

Village
Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district Saale-Holzland, in , .

Jena

Latitude
50.9282° or 50° 55′ 41″ north
Longitude
11.5879° or 11° 35′ 17″ east
Population
111,000
Elevation
158 metres (518 feet)
Open location code
9F2HWHHQ+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240090160
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6549748
Wiki­data ID
Q3150
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Jena from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Jena” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jena”
  • Albanian: “Jena”
  • Arabic: “ينا (ألمانيا)”
  • Arabic: “ينا”
  • Arabic: “يينا”
  • Aragonese: “Jena”
  • Armenian: “Ենա”
  • Arpitan: “Jena”
  • Asturian: “Jena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yena”
  • Balinese: “Jena”
  • Bashkir: “Йена”
  • Basque: “Jena”
  • Bavarian: “Jena”
  • Belarusian: “Ена (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Ена (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Ена”
  • Bengali: “জেনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “জেনা”
  • Bosnian: “Jena”
  • Breton: “Jena”
  • Bulgarian: “Йена”
  • Catalan: “Jena”
  • Cebuano: “Jena”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Jena”
  • Chinese: “Jena”
  • Chinese: “耶拿”
  • Corsican: “Jena”
  • Croatian: “Jena”
  • Czech: “Jena”
  • Danish: “Jena”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Jena”
  • Dutch: “Jena”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چينا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ينا”
  • Esperanto: “Jena”
  • Estonian: “Jena”
  • Finnish: “Jena”
  • French: “Iéna”
  • Friulian: “Jena”
  • Galician: “Jena”
  • Georgian: “იენა”
  • German: “Jena”
  • Greek: “Ιένα”
  • Gujarati: “જેના”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Jena”
  • Hausa: “Jena”
  • Hebrew: “ינה”
  • Hindi: “जेना”
  • Hungarian: “Jéna”
  • Icelandic: “Jena”
  • Ido: “Jena”
  • Indonesian: “Jena”
  • Interlingua: “Jena”
  • Interlingue: “Jena”
  • Irish: “Jena”
  • Italian: “Jena”
  • Japanese: “イェーナ”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Йена”
  • Kirghiz: “Йена”
  • Kongo: “Jena”
  • Korean: “예나”
  • Kurdish: “Jena”
  • Ladin: “Jena”
  • Latin: “Iena”
  • Latvian: “Jēna”
  • Ligurian: “Jena”
  • Limburgan: “Jena”
  • Lithuanian: “Jėna”
  • Lombard: “Jena”
  • Low German: “Jena”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jena”
  • Macedonian: “Јена”
  • Malagasy: “Jena”
  • Malay: “Jena, Jerman”
  • Malay: “Jena”
  • Malayalam: “യെന”
  • Maltese: “Jena”
  • Manx: “Jena”
  • Marathi: “जेना”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jena”
  • Minangkabau: “Jena”
  • Moksha: “Ена”
  • Narom: “Jena”
  • Neapolitan: “Jena”
  • Newari: “जेना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jena”
  • Norwegian: “Jena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jena”
  • Ossetian: “Йенæ (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Йенæ”
  • Persian: “ینا”
  • Persian: “یینا”
  • Picard: “Jena”
  • Piemontese: “Jena”
  • Polish: “Jena”
  • Portuguese: “Jena”
  • Romanian: “Jena”
  • Romansh: “Jena”
  • Russian: “Йена”
  • Sardinian: “Jena”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Jena”
  • Scots: “Jena”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Jena”
  • Serbian: “Jena”
  • Serbian: “Јена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jena”
  • Sicilian: “Jena”
  • Silesian: “Jena”
  • Sinhala: “ජෙනා”
  • Slovak: “Jena”
  • Slovenian: “Jena”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ینا”
  • Spanish: “Jena”
  • Swahili: “Jena”
  • Swedish: “Jena”
  • Swiss German: “Jena”
  • Tajik: “Йена”
  • Tamil: “ஜேனா”
  • Tatar: “Ена”
  • Telugu: “జెనా”
  • Thai: “เยนา”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Jena”
  • Tumbuka: “Jena”
  • Turkish: “Jena”
  • Ukrainian: “Єна”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Jena”
  • Urdu: “جینا”
  • Urdu: “یئنا”
  • Uzbek: “Jena”
  • Uzbek: “Yena”
  • Venetian: “Jena”
  • Vietnamese: “Jena”
  • Vlaams: “Jena”
  • Volapük: “Jena”
  • Walloon: “Jena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jena”
  • Welsh: “Jena”
  • Western Frisian: “Jena”
  • Western Panjabi: “جینا”
  • Wolof: “Jena”
  • Wu Chinese: “耶拿”
  • Yue Chinese: “耶拿”
  • Zulu: “Jena”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Jena”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Zentrum and Damenviertel.

Thuringia: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Erfurt, Weimar, Gera, and Eisenach.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jena”. Photo: Lars0001, Public domain.