Kuldīga
Kuldīga is a picturesque town on the Venta River in the Kurzeme region of western Latvia. Its old town was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023.Photo: Inārs Švarcs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Algirdas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 9,860 residents
- Description: city and capital of Kuldīga Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Kuldīgas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Venta Rapid and Belfry of Peter’s Chapel.
Venta Rapid
Waterfall
Photo: public domain, Public domain.
Venta Rapid is a waterfall on the Venta River in Kuldīga, western Latvia. It is the widest waterfall in Europe at 249 metres across, and becomes as wide as 275 metres during spring floods.
Belfry of Peter’s Chapel
Historic building
Photo: Laima Gūtmane (simka…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Belfry of Peter’s Chapel is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Venta and Keramika.
Keramika
Village
Photo: Laima Gūtmane (simka…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keramika is a village, which is situated 4½ km north of Kuldīga.
Kuldīga
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia, Hanseatic city, and locality
- Location: Kuldīga Municipality, Kurzeme, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.9686° or 56° 58′ 7″ northLongitude
21.9608° or 21° 57′ 39″ eastPopulation
9,860Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV KDAOpen location code
9G83XX96+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 29488312OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kuldīga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Goldingen”
- Afrikaans: “Kuldiga”
- Afrikaans: “Kuldīga”
- Amharic: “ኩልዲጋ”
- Arabic: “كولديغا”
- Armenian: “Կուլդիգա”
- Azerbaijani: “Kuldiga”
- Azerbaijani: “Kuldiq”
- Basque: “Goldingen”
- Basque: “Kuldīga”
- Belarusian: “Гольдынген”
- Belarusian: “Кулдыга”
- Bengali: “কুলডিগা”
- Bulgarian: “Кулдига”
- Catalan: “Goldingen”
- Catalan: “Kuldīga”
- Cebuano: “Kuldīga”
- Chinese: “库尔迪加”
- Chinese: “庫爾迪加”
- Croatian: “Kuldīga”
- Czech: “Kuldīga”
- Danish: “Goldingen”
- Danish: “Kuldiga”
- Danish: “Kuldīga”
- Dutch: “Goldingen”
- Dutch: “Kuldiga”
- Dutch: “Kuldīga”
- Esperanto: “Goldingen”
- Esperanto: “Kuldiga”
- Esperanto: “Kuldīga”
- Esperanto: “Kuldīgas novads”
- Estonian: “Goldingen”
- Estonian: “Kuldiga”
- Estonian: “Kuldīga”
- Finnish: “Kuldiga”
- Finnish: “Kuldīga”
- French: “Goldingen”
- French: “Kuldiga”
- French: “Kuldīga”
- Galician: “Kuldīga”
- Georgian: “კულდიგა”
- German: “Goldingen”
- German: “Kuldīga”
- Haitian: “Kuldīga”
- Hausa: “Kuldiga”
- Hebrew: “גאלדינגען”
- Hebrew: “גולדינגן”
- Hebrew: “קולדיג”
- Hebrew: “קולדיגה”
- Hindi: “कुल्डिगा”
- Hungarian: “Kuldīga”
- Inari Sami: “Kuldīga”
- Indonesian: “Kuldiga”
- Indonesian: “Kuldīga”
- Italian: “Goldingen”
- Italian: “Kuldīga”
- Japanese: “Kuldīga”
- Japanese: “クルディーガ”
- Javanese: “Kuldiga”
- Kazakh: “Kwldïga”
- Kazakh: “Кулдига”
- Kazakh: “كۋلدىيگا”
- Kirghiz: “Кулдига”
- Korean: “쿨디가”
- Latgalian: “Kuļdeiga”
- Latin: “Goldinga”
- Latvian: “Goldingen”
- Latvian: “Goldingena”
- Latvian: “Kuldīga”
- Latvian: “Kuldīgas pilsēta”
- Latvian: “Kuldinga”
- Lithuanian: “Kuldinga”
- Lithuanian: “Kuldyga”
- Low German: “Goldingen”
- Low German: “Kuldiga”
- Malay: “Kuldiga”
- Malay: “Kuldīga”
- Maltese: “Goldingen”
- Maltese: “Kuldiga”
- Maltese: “Kuldīga”
- Moksha: “Кулдига”
- Northern Frisian: “Kuldīga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuldīga”
- Norwegian: “Kuldīga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Goldingen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kuldīga”
- Oromo: “Kuldiga”
- Ossetian: “Кулдигæ”
- Panjabi: “ਕੁਲਡਿਗਾ”
- Persian: “کولدیگا”
- Polish: “Goldynga”
- Polish: “Kuldiga”
- Polish: “Kuldīga”
- Polish: “Kuldyga”
- Portuguese: “Kuldiga”
- Pushto: “کولډیګا”
- Romanian: “Kuldīga”
- Russian: “Голдинген”
- Russian: “Гольдинген”
- Russian: “Кулдига”
- Samogitian: “Kuldīga”
- Samogitian: “Kuldyga”
- Serbian: “Kuldiga”
- Serbian: “Kuldīga”
- Serbian: “Кулдига”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kuldīga”
- Silesian: “Kuldīga”
- Slovak: “Kuldīga”
- Slovenian: “Goldingen”
- Slovenian: “Kuldīga”
- Somali: “Kuldiga”
- Spanish: “Goldingen”
- Spanish: “Kuldiga”
- Spanish: “Kuldīga”
- Swahili: “Kuldiga”
- Swedish: “Kuldīga”
- Tajik: “Кулдига”
- Tatar: “Кулдига”
- Turkish: “Kuldiga”
- Turkish: “Kuldīga”
- Ukrainian: “Ґольдінґен”
- Ukrainian: “Кулдига”
- Ukrainian: “Кулдіга”
- Upper Sorbian: “Goldingen”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kuldīga”
- Urdu: “کولدیگا”
- Urdu: “کولڈیگا”
- Uzbek: “Kuldiga”
- Vietnamese: “Kuldīga”
- Volapük: “Kuldiga”
- Volapük: “Kuldīga”
- Welsh: “Kuldīga”
- “Goldingen”
- “Kuldīga”
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