Lithuania
Samogitia
Klaipėda County

Kretinga

Kretinga is a city in in the west of Lithuania, with a population of 17,249 in 2021. It's one of the oldest cities in the country, but repeatedly wrecked, so what you see now is mostly modern.
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  • Type: Town with 19,000 residents
  • Description: city in Samogitia, Lithuania
  • Also known as: “Kratinga”, “Kretingos”, and “Myasto Kretinga”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kretinga train station and Kretinga Manor.

Railway station
Photo: Hugo.arg, Public domain.
is a railway station.

Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kretinga Museum, also known as , is located near the Baltic Sea in Kretinga, . Originally a private estate, it was converted to a museum in 1992, and now contains a number of archeological finds, fine and applied art collections, folk art, and ethnographic exhibits, as well as a restored orangery.

Church
Photo: Kvitas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of the Lord's Revelation to Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church in Kretinga, Lithuania. The Kretinga Bernardine Monastery building is connected with the church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Padvariai and Kretingsodis.

Village
Photo: Algirdas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in , . It is located just north of Kretinga.

Village
Photo: Vilensija, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Village
Photo: Lazdynas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Kretinga.

Kretinga

Latitude
55.8901° or 55° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude
21.2424° or 21° 14′ 33″ east
Population
19,000
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Open location code
9G73V6RR+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 33700304
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
597989
Wiki­data ID
Q1788115
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Kretinga” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kretinga”
  • Asturian: “Kretinga”
  • Belarusian: “Крацінга”
  • Belarusian: “Крэтынга”
  • Belarusian: “Крэцінга”
  • Catalan: “Kretinga”
  • Cebuano: “Kretinga”
  • Chinese: “克雷廷加”
  • Cornish: “Kretinga”
  • Czech: “Cretyn”
  • Czech: “Kretinga”
  • Danish: “Kretinga distriktskommune”
  • Danish: “Kretinga”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kretinga”
  • Dutch: “Kretinga”
  • Esperanto: “Kretinga”
  • Estonian: “Kretinga”
  • Finnish: “Kretinga”
  • French: “Kretinga”
  • Galician: “Kretinga”
  • Georgian: “კრეტინგა”
  • German: “Bajohren”
  • German: “Crottingen”
  • German: “Kretinga”
  • German: “Krettingen”
  • German: “Krottingen”
  • Greek: “Κρετίνγκα”
  • Greek: “Κρέτινγκα”
  • Hebrew: “קרטינגה”
  • Hungarian: “Kretinga”
  • Italian: “Kretinga”
  • Japanese: “クレティンガ”
  • Korean: “크레팅가”
  • Latgalian: “Kretinga”
  • Latvian: “Kretinga”
  • Latvian: “Kretynga”
  • Lithuanian: “Kretinga”
  • Moksha: “Крэтинга”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kretinga”
  • Norwegian: “Kretinga”
  • Persian: “کرتینگا”
  • Piemontese: “Kretinga”
  • Polish: “Kretinga”
  • Polish: “Kretynga”
  • Portuguese: “Kretinga”
  • Pushto: “کرتینګا”
  • Russian: “Кретинга”
  • Russian: “Кретинген”
  • Russian: “Крятинга”
  • Samogitian: “Kretinga”
  • Serbian: “Кретинга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kretinga”
  • Spanish: “Kretinga”
  • Swahili: “Kretinga”
  • Swedish: “Kretinga”
  • Tatar: “Крәтинга”
  • Turkish: “Kretinga”
  • Ukrainian: “Кретинга”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kretinga”
  • Urdu: “کریتینگا”
  • Vietnamese: “Kretinga”
  • Volapük: “Kretinga”
  • Yiddish: “קרעטינגא”
  • “Kretinga”

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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 “Kretinga”. Photo: Andrzej O, CC BY-SA 4.0.