Kingisepp
Kingisepp is a small town on the Luga River in the southwestern part of the West Leningrad Oblast, near the border with Estonia, a regional center with a turbulent military past and a quiet provincial present.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Kingisepp station
Railway station
Photo: Serko, Public domain.
Kingisepp station is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tikopis.
Tikopis
Hamlet
Photo: Valeriy10f, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tikopis is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km northeast of Kingisepp.
Kingisepp
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: West Leningrad Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.3744° or 59° 22′ 28″ northLongitude
28.5982° or 28° 35′ 53″ eastPopulation
48,000Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)United Nations Location Code
RU KGSOpen location code
9GFC9HFX+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 217317194OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Kingisepp from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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