Mtskheta
Mtskheta is a town with a population of about 8,000 people 15 km north of Tbilisi in the Kartli region of Georgia.
Photo: Kober, Public domain.- Type: Town with 8,080 residents
- Description: city in Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia
- Also known as: “Mcxeta”, “Meschetien”, “Mtscheta (stad)”, “Mtshoeta”, “Mtskhera”, “Mtzkhet”, “Mzheta”, “Мцкхета”, “മ്റ്റിസ്ഖേറ്റ.”, “므츠케타”, and “ムツケタ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Jvari Monastery and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral.
Jvari Monastery
Monastery
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tsitsamuri.
Mtskheta
- Categories: city, populated place in Georgia, administrative center, and locality
- Location: Mtskheta Municipality, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Kartli, Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.8463° or 41° 50′ 47″ north
Longitude
44.7196° or 44° 43′ 10″ east
Population
8,080
Elevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)
UN/LOCODE
GE ZAA
Open location code
8HH6RPW9+GR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Mtskheta” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mtskheta”
- Arabic: “متسخيتا”
- Arabic: “محمية المدينة ومتحف متسخيتا”
- Armenian: “Մցխեթ”
- Asturian: “Mtskheta”
- Azerbaijani: “Msxeta”
- Azerbaijani: “Mtsxeta”
- Bashkir: “Мцхета”
- Basque: “Mtskheta”
- Belarusian: “Мцхета”
- Belarusian: “Мцхэта”
- Bulgarian: “Мцхета”
- Catalan: “Mtskheta”
- Catalan: “Mtskhetha”
- Cebuano: “Mtskheta (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Mtskheta”
- Chechen: “Мцхета”
- Chinese: “姆茨赫塔”
- Croatian: “Mcheta”
- Czech: “Mccheta”
- Danish: “Mtskheta”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mtsxeta”
- Dutch: “Mtscheta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محمية المدينه ومتحف متسخيتا”
- Erzya: “Мцхета”
- Esperanto: “Mcĥeta”
- Estonian: “Mtshetha”
- Finnish: “Mtskheta”
- French: “Mtskheta”
- French: “Mtskhéta”
- Galician: “Mtskheta”
- Georgian: “Mtskheta”
- Georgian: “მცხეთა”
- German: “Mzcheta”
- Greek: “Μτσκέτα”
- Greek: “Μτσχέτα”
- Hebrew: “מצחטה”
- Hebrew: “מצחתה”
- Hungarian: “Mcheta”
- Indonesian: “Mtskheta”
- Ingush: “МацагӀате”
- Irish: “Mtskheta”
- Italian: “Mtskheta”
- Japanese: “ムツヘタ”
- Kazakh: “Мцхета”
- Korean: “므츠헤타”
- Latin: “Mtzcheta”
- Latvian: “Mcheta”
- Lithuanian: “Mccheta”
- Macedonian: “Мцхета”
- Malayalam: “മ്റ്റിസ്ഖേറ്റ”
- Maltese: “Mtskheta”
- Mazanderani: “متسختا”
- Mingrelian: “მცხეთა”
- Moksha: “Мцхэта”
- Mongolian: “Мцхета”
- Northern Frisian: “Mts’cheta”
- Northern Frisian: “Mtscheta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mtskheta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mtskheta”
- Norwegian: “Mtskheta”
- Ossetian: “Цхета”
- Persian: “متسختا”
- Polish: “Mccheta”
- Portuguese: “Misqueta”
- Portuguese: “Mtscheta”
- Portuguese: “Mtskheta”
- Quechua: “Miskheta”
- Romanian: “Mțheta”
- Russian: “Мцхета”
- Scots: “Mtskheta”
- Serbian: “Mcheta”
- Serbian: “Мцхета”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mcheta”
- Slovak: “Mccheta”
- Slovenian: “Mcheta”
- Spanish: “Miskheta”
- Spanish: “Mtsjeta”
- Swedish: “Mtscheta”
- Thai: “มซเคตา”
- Thai: “มสเฆทา”
- Turkish: “Mtsheta”
- Ukrainian: “Мцхета”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mccheta”
- Urdu: “متسختا”
- Uzbek: “Msxeta”
- Vietnamese: “Mtskheta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mtskheta”
- Welsh: “Mtskheta”
- Wu Chinese: “姆茨赫塔”
- Yue Chinese: “姆茨赫塔”
- “მცხეთა”
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