Belarus
Vitebsk Oblast
Vitebsk Region

Orsha

Orsha is a city in Vitebsk Region, . It is situated on the fork of the and Arshytsa River, and it serves as the administrative center of Orsha District. As of 2025, it has a population of 101,662.
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  • Type: City with 107,000 residents
  • Description: city in Belarus
  • Also known as: “Orcha”, “Orša”, “Orscha”, “Orshe”, “Orsza”, and “Vorša”
  • Address: Аршанскі раён

Places of Interest

Highlights include Uladzimir Karatkevich Museum and Museum of the Town of Orsha History and Culture.

Museum
Photo: Gandvik, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Museum
Photo: Mikra72, CC0.

Museum
Photo: Антон Алегавіч, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Orsha

Latitude
54.5108° or 54° 30′ 39″ north
Longitude
30.4294° or 30° 25′ 46″ east
Population
107,000
Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)
IATA airport code
TXC
United Nations Location Code
BY OSH
Open location code
9G6GGC6H+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4230154696
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
624079
Wiki­data ID
Q208609
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Orsha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أورشا”
  • Armenian: “Օրշա”
  • Asturian: “Orsha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Orşa”
  • Belarusian: “Ворша”
  • Belarusian: “Орша”
  • Bengali: “ওরশা”
  • Breton: “Orcha”
  • Bulgarian: “Ворша”
  • Bulgarian: “Орша”
  • Catalan: “Orxa”
  • Catalan: “Орша”
  • Cebuano: “Orša”
  • Chechen: “Орша”
  • Chinese: “Orsha”
  • Chinese: “奥尔沙”
  • Chinese: “奥沙”
  • Chinese: “奧爾沙”
  • Croatian: “Orša”
  • Czech: “Orša”
  • Danish: “Orša”
  • Danish: “Orsja”
  • Danish: “Orsza”
  • Danish: “Орша”
  • Danish: “О́рша”
  • Dutch: “Orša”
  • Dutch: “Orscha”
  • Dutch: “Orsja”
  • Dutch: “Vorsja”
  • Eastern Mari: “Орша”
  • Esperanto: “Orŝa”
  • Esperanto: “Vorŝa”
  • Estonian: “Orša”
  • Estonian: “Vorša”
  • Finnish: “Orša”
  • Finnish: “Orsha”
  • French: “Orcha”
  • French: “Orscha”
  • French: “Orsha”
  • Galician: “Orša”
  • Georgian: “ორშა”
  • German: “Orša”
  • German: “Orscha”
  • German: “Orsha”
  • German: “Worscha”
  • Greek: “Όρσα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓરશા”
  • Hebrew: “אורשה”
  • Hindi: “ओरशा”
  • Hungarian: “Orsa”
  • Ido: “Orsha”
  • Indonesian: “Orsha”
  • Italian: “Orša”
  • Italian: “Oršanskij”
  • Italian: “Orsha”
  • Italian: “Orsza”
  • Japanese: “ヴォールシャ”
  • Japanese: “ヴォルシャ”
  • Japanese: “オールシャ”
  • Japanese: “オルシャ”
  • Kannada: “ಓರಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Орша”
  • Korean: “보르샤”
  • Korean: “오르샤”
  • Latin: “Orsa”
  • Latin: “Orssa”
  • Latvian: “Orša”
  • Lithuanian: “Orša”
  • Lithuanian: “Vorša”
  • Macedonian: “Орша”
  • Malay: “Orsha”
  • Marathi: “ओरशा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Orscha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orsja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vorsja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orsha”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orsja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orsza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vorsja”
  • Norwegian: “Orsja”
  • Ossetian: “Оршæ”
  • Persian: “اورشا”
  • Polish: “Orsza”
  • Portuguese: “Orsha”
  • Romanian: “Orša”
  • Romanian: “Orșa”
  • Russian: “Орша”
  • Rusyn: “Орша”
  • Scots: “Orsha”
  • Serbian: “Orša”
  • Serbian: “Орша”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Orša”
  • Silesian: “Orsza”
  • Sinhala: “ඔර්ශා”
  • Slovak: “Orša”
  • Slovenian: “Orša”
  • Slovenian: “Vorša”
  • Spanish: “Orša”
  • Spanish: “Orsha”
  • Swedish: “Orsja”
  • Swedish: “Vorsja”
  • Tamil: “ஒர்ஷா”
  • Tatar: “Орша”
  • Telugu: “ఓర్షా”
  • Thai: “โอร์ชา”
  • Turkish: “Orşa”
  • Turkish: “Orsha”
  • Ukrainian: “Ворша”
  • Ukrainian: “Орша”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Orša”
  • Urdu: “اورشا”
  • Urdu: “ورشا”
  • Uzbek: “Orsha”
  • Vietnamese: “Orsha”
  • Vlaams: “Orsja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Orsha”
  • Yiddish: “Orsha”
  • Yiddish: “אָרשע”
  • “Orša”

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