Lithuania
Lithuania Minor
Klaipėda County

Klaipėda

Klaipėda is a city in , the narrow northwest coastal region of Lithuania. It's the country's third-largest city. The city has historic sights but isn't pretty-pretty like Vilnius Old Town, and draws mostly local tourism.
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  • Type: City with 162,000 residents
  • Description: port city in Lithuania
  • Also known as: “Klaipada”, “Klaipeda”, “Memel”, and “Mėmelis”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Klaipeda Castle and Clock Museum.

Castle
Photo: Andrius.v, CC BY 3.0.
Klaipėda Castle, also known as Memelburg or Memel Castle, is an archeological site and museum housed in a castle built by the Teutonic Knights in Klaipėda, , near the Baltic Sea.

Museum
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Park
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Klaipėda is located in central Klaipėda, . This park is one of the key artistic landmarks in the town. The L-shaped park occupies 12.2 hectares and has 116 modern sculptures created by 67 Lithuanian artists in 1977–1991.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Smiltynė and Kopgalis.

Suburb
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is a part of Klaipėda city municipality in . It is located on the northern tip of the , next to Kopgalis, which is at the very tip of the spit pointing into the narrow strait which connects the to the Baltic Sea.

Neighborhood
Photo: ThomasPusch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Klaipėda

Latitude
55.7128° or 55° 42′ 46″ north
Longitude
21.135° or 21° 8′ 6″ east
Population
162,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LT KLJ
Open location code
9G73P47P+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27193094
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
598098
Wiki­data ID
Q776965
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Klaipėda” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Klaipėda”
  • Albanian: “Klaipėda”
  • Amharic: “ክላይፔዳ”
  • Arabic: “كلايبيدا”
  • Aragonese: “Klaipėda”
  • Armenian: “Կլայպեդա”
  • Asturian: “Klaipėda”
  • Aymara: “Klaypida”
  • Azerbaijani: “Klaypeda”
  • Basque: “Klaipeda”
  • Basque: “Klaipėda”
  • Belarusian: “Клайпеда”
  • Belarusian: “Мемель”
  • Bengali: “ক্লেইপেদা”
  • Bengali: “ক্লেলেইপেদা”
  • Breton: “Klaipėda”
  • Bulgarian: “Клайпеда”
  • Catalan: “Klaipeda”
  • Catalan: “Klaipėda”
  • Catalan: “Memel”
  • Catalan: “Mėmelis”
  • Cebuano: “Klaipėda (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Klaipėda”
  • Chechen: “Клайпеда”
  • Chinese: “Klaipėda”
  • Chinese: “克莱佩达”
  • Chinese: “克萊佩達”
  • Chinese: “克萊佩達市”
  • Chinese: “卡賴佩達”
  • Chinese: “梅梅爾”
  • Chuvash: “Клайпеда”
  • Cornish: “Klaipėda”
  • Croatian: “Klaipėda”
  • Czech: “Caloypede”
  • Czech: “Klaipėda”
  • Czech: “Klajpeda”
  • Czech: “Memel”
  • Czech: “Memelburg”
  • Czech: “Mėmelis”
  • Czech: “Mimmelburg”
  • Danish: “Klaipeda”
  • Danish: “Klaipėda”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Klaipėda”
  • Dutch: “Klaipeda”
  • Dutch: “Klaipėda”
  • Dutch: “Memel”
  • Dutch: “Mėmelis”
  • Eastern Mari: “Клайпеде”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كلايبيدا”
  • Esperanto: “Klaipeda”
  • Esperanto: “Klaipėda”
  • Esperanto: “Memel”
  • Esperanto: “Mėmelis”
  • Estonian: “Klaipėda”
  • Finnish: “Klaipeda”
  • Finnish: “Klaipėda”
  • French: “Klaipeda”
  • French: “Klaipéda”
  • French: “Klaipėda”
  • French: “Memel”
  • French: “Mėmelis”
  • Galician: “Klaipeda”
  • Ganda: “Klaipėda”
  • Georgian: “კლაიპედა”
  • Georgian: “მემელი”
  • German: “Klaipeda”
  • German: “Klaipėda”
  • German: “Mėmelis”
  • German: “Memel” (historical)
  • Greek: “Κλαϊπέντα”
  • Greek: “Κλάιπεντα”
  • Gujarati: “ક્લીપેદા”
  • Gujarati: “ક્લેપેડા”
  • Hebrew: “מֶמֶל”
  • Hebrew: “קלייפדה”
  • Hebrew: “קליפדה”
  • Hindi: “क्लाइपेडा”
  • Hindi: “क्लैपेडा”
  • Hungarian: “Klaipėda”
  • Icelandic: “Klaipėda”
  • Ido: “Klaipeda”
  • Indonesian: “Klaipeda”
  • Indonesian: “Klaipėda”
  • Interlingue: “Klaipėda”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒃᓚᐊᐱᑕ/klaipita”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒃᓚᐊᐱᑕ”
  • Irish: “Klaipėda”
  • Italian: “Klaipėda”
  • Italian: “Memel”
  • Italian: “Mėmelis”
  • Japanese: “クライペダ”
  • Japanese: “メーメル”
  • Japanese: “メーメルブルク”
  • Kalaallisut: “Klaipėda”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಲೈಪೆಡಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಲೈಪೆದ”
  • Kashubian: “Kłajpéda”
  • Kirghiz: “Клайпеда”
  • Korean: “메멜부르크”
  • Korean: “클라이페다”
  • Kotava: “Klaipėda”
  • Latgalian: “Klaipieda”
  • Latin: “Memela”
  • Latvian: “Klaipēda”
  • Latvian: “Memel”
  • Latvian: “Mėmelis”
  • Lithuanian: “Klaipėda”
  • Lithuanian: “Memel”
  • Lithuanian: “Mėmelis”
  • Lojban: “klaipedas”
  • Lojban: “tcadrklaipeda”
  • Low German: “Klaipeda”
  • Low German: “Klaipėda”
  • Low German: “Memel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Klaipeda”
  • Luxembourgish: “Klaipėda”
  • Macedonian: “Клајпеда”
  • Malagasy: “Klaipėda”
  • Malay: “Klaipeda”
  • Malay: “Klaipėda”
  • Maltese: “Klaipeda”
  • Maltese: “Klaipėda”
  • Maori: “Klaipėda”
  • Marathi: “क्लीपेदा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Klaipėda”
  • Mingrelian: “კლაიპედა”
  • Moksha: “Клайпеда”
  • Mongolian: “Клайпеда”
  • Mongolian: “Клейпеда”
  • Nauru: “Klaipėda”
  • Northern Frisian: “Klaipėda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Klaipėda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Klaipėda”
  • Norwegian: “Klaipeda”
  • Norwegian: “Klaipėda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Klaipeda”
  • Ossetian: “Клайпедæ”
  • Persian: “کلایپدا”
  • Piemontese: “Klaipėda”
  • Polish: “Kłajpeda”
  • Polish: “Memel”
  • Portuguese: “Klaipėda”
  • Portuguese: “Memel”
  • Portuguese: “Mėmelis”
  • Pushto: “کلایپدا”
  • Romanian: “Klaipėda”
  • Romanian: “Клайпеда”
  • Russian: “Клайпеда”
  • Russian: “Мемель”
  • Samogitian: “Klaipieda”
  • Samogitian: “Memelborgs”
  • Samogitian: “Memelis”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Klaipėda”
  • Scots: “Klaipėda”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Klaipėda”
  • Serbian: “Клаипеда”
  • Serbian: “Клајпеда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Klaipėda”
  • Sicilian: “Klaipeda”
  • Silesian: “Klaipėda”
  • Sinhala: “කලයිපෙඩා”
  • Sinhala: “ක්ලයිපීඩා”
  • Slovak: “Klaipėda”
  • Slovak: “Memel”
  • Slovenian: “Klaipėda”
  • Slovenian: “Klajpeda”
  • Slovenian: “Memel”
  • Spanish: “Klaipeda”
  • Spanish: “Klaipėda”
  • Spanish: “Memel”
  • Spanish: “Mėmelis”
  • Sundanese: “Klaipéda”
  • Swahili: “Klaipėda”
  • Swedish: “Klaipėda”
  • Swedish: “Memel”
  • Swedish: “Mėmelis”
  • Swiss German: “Klaipeda”
  • Tagalog: “Klaipėda”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Klaipėda”
  • Tajik: “Клайпеда”
  • Tamil: “கிளைப்பிடா”
  • Tamil: “க்லிப்டா”
  • Tatar: “Klaipėda”
  • Tatar: “Клайпеда”
  • Telugu: “క్లాయిపెడా”
  • Thai: “เกล็ยเปดา”
  • Thai: “ไคลเปดา”
  • Thai: “ไคลเพดา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Klaipeda”
  • Turkish: “Klaipėda”
  • Ukrainian: “Клайпеда”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Klaipėda”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Memel”
  • Urdu: “کلائپیدا”
  • Uzbek: “Klaypeda”
  • Venetian: “Klaipėda”
  • Veps: “Klaiped”
  • Vietnamese: “Klaipeda”
  • Vietnamese: “Klaipėda”
  • Volapük: “Klaipėda”
  • Walloon: “Klaipeda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Klaipėda”
  • Welsh: “Klaipėda”
  • Western Armenian: “Քլայբետա”
  • Western Frisian: “Klaipeda”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلائیپیدا”
  • Wu Chinese: “克莱佩达”
  • Yue Chinese: “克萊佩達”
  • “Klaipėda”
  • “Klaipieda”

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