Kingisepp

Kingisepp is a small town on the Luga River in the southwestern part of the , near the border with Estonia, a regional center with a turbulent military past and a quiet provincial present.
  • Town with 48,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 33 metres (108 feet)
  • Description: city in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
  • Address: Кингисеппский район
  • Also known as
    “Yam”
    “Yamburg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kingisepp station.

Railway station
Photo: Serko, Public domain.
is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tikopis.

Hamlet
is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km northeast of Kingisepp.

Kingisepp

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Latitude
59.3744° or 59° 22′ 28″ north
Longitude
28.5982° or 28° 35′ 53″ east
UN/LOCODE
RU KGS
Open location code
9GFC9HFX+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Kingisepp” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كينغيسيب”
  • Armenian: “Կինգիսեպ”
  • Bashkir: “Кингисепп”
  • Basque: “Kingisepp”
  • Belarusian: “Кінгісеп”
  • Belarusian: “Ям”
  • Belarusian: “Ямбург”
  • Breton: “Kingisepp”
  • Bulgarian: “Кингисеп”
  • Catalan: “Kingisepp”
  • Catalan: “Yamburg”
  • Cebuano: “Kingisepp”
  • Chechen: “Кингисепп”
  • Chinese: “金吉謝普”
  • Chinese: “金吉谢普”
  • Church Slavic: “Кингисєппъ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kingisepp”
  • Croatian: “Kingisepp”
  • Czech: “Jam”
  • Czech: “Jamburg”
  • Czech: “Kingisepp”
  • Danish: “Kingisepp”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kingisepp”
  • Dutch: “Kingisepp”
  • Esperanto: “Kingisepp”
  • Estonian: “Jamburg”
  • Estonian: “Kingissepp”
  • Finnish: “Jaama”
  • Finnish: “Kingisepp”
  • French: “Kingissepp”
  • French: “Kinguissepp”
  • Georgian: “კინგისეპი”
  • German: “Jaama”
  • German: “Jamburg”
  • German: “Kingisepp”
  • German: “Kingissepp”
  • Hebrew: “קינגיספ”
  • Hungarian: “Kingiszepp”
  • Indonesian: “Kingisepp”
  • Italian: “Kingisepp”
  • Japanese: “キンギセップ”
  • Karelian: “Juama”
  • Korean: “킨기세프”
  • Korean: “킹기세프”
  • Latin: “Iama”
  • Latvian: “Kingisepa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kingisepas”
  • Lombard: “Kingisepp”
  • Low German: “Kingisepp”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jam”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jamburg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kingisepp”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kingissepp”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kingisepp”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kingisepp (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kingisepp”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kingisepp”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kingisepp”
  • Norwegian: “Kingisepp”
  • Ossetian: “Кингисепп”
  • Persian: “کینگیسپ”
  • Piemontese: “Kingisepp”
  • Polish: “Kingisepp”
  • Polish: “Kingisiepp”
  • Romanian: “Kinghisepp”
  • Romanian: “Kingisepp”
  • Russian: “Кингисепп”
  • Russian: “Ки́нгисепп”
  • Russian: “Кингисеппское городское поселение”
  • Russian: “Ям”
  • Russian: “Ямбург”
  • Rusyn: “Кингисепп”
  • Scots: “Kingisepp”
  • Serbian: “Кингисеп”
  • Silesian: “Kingisjepp”
  • Slovenian: “Kingisepp”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کینقیسپ”
  • Spanish: “Kingisepp”
  • Swedish: “Kingisepp”
  • Tagalog: “Kingisepp”
  • Talysh: “Kingisepp”
  • Tatar: “Кингисепп”
  • Tatar: “Ям”
  • Tatar: “Ямбург”
  • Turkish: “Kingisepp”
  • Ukrainian: “Кінгісепп”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kingisepp”
  • Urdu: “کنگی سیپ”
  • Veps: “Kingisepp”
  • Vietnamese: “Kingisepp”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kingisepp”
  • Western Panjabi: “کینگیسیپ”
  • Wolof: “Kingisepp”
  • Wu Chinese: “金吉谢普”

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