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.
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  • Type: Town with 48,000 residents
  • Description: city in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
  • Also known as: Yam” and “Yamburg
  • Address: Кингисеппский район

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

Latitude
59.3744° or 59° 22′ 28″ north
Longitude
28.5982° or 28° 35′ 53″ east
Population
48,000
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
United Nations Location Code
RU KGS
Open location code
9GFC9HFX+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 217317194
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
548602
Wiki­data ID
Q15270
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Satellite Map

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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: Kingisepp
  • 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: Ям
  • Russian: Ямбург
  • Rusyn: Кингисепп
  • Scots: Kingisepp
  • Serbian: Кингисеп
  • 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
  • Veps: Kingisepp
  • Vietnamese: Kingisepp
  • Waray (Philippines): Kingisepp
  • Western Panjabi: کینگیسیپ
  • Wolof: Kingisepp
  • Wu Chinese: 金吉谢普

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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 “Kingisepp”. Photo: Anastasia6786, CC BY-SA 4.0.