Penza

Penza is the large industrial capital of in . It has its origins like other former frontier towns of Russia as a fort to protect against attacks by the Tatars, its founding being around the mid-17th century.
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  • Type: City with 488,000 residents
  • Description: city in central Russia
  • Also known as: “Pensa”
  • Postal code: 4400xx

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Museum of One Painting named after G. V. Myasnikov and Penza Planetarium.

Museum
Photo: AAA333, Public domain.
is a state museum, located in Penza, Russia. It is a unique museum, which does not have analogies anywhere in the world.

Planetarium
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is located at Penza Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after V. Belinsky in the building formerly occupied by the Penza Hydrometeorological station.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
is a museum.

Penza

Latitude
53.1953° or 53° 11′ 43″ north
Longitude
45.019° or 45° 1′ 9″ east
Population
488,000
Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)
Inception
1663
IATA airport code
PEZ
United Nations Location Code
RU PEZ
Open location code
9H5752W9+4J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27505663
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
511565
Wiki­data ID
Q5540
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Penza” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Penza”
  • Arabic: “بينزا”
  • Armenian: “Պենզա”
  • Asturian: “Penza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Penza”
  • Bashkir: “Пенза”
  • Basque: “Penza”
  • Belarusian: “Пенза”
  • Bengali: “পেঞ্জা”
  • Breton: “Penza”
  • Bulgarian: “Пенза”
  • Catalan: “Penza”
  • Cebuano: “Penza”
  • Chechen: “Пенза”
  • Chinese: “Penza”
  • Chinese: “奔萨”
  • Chinese: “奔薩”
  • Chinese: “朋札”
  • Chuvash: “Пенза”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Penza”
  • Croatian: “Penza”
  • Czech: “Penza”
  • Danish: “Pensa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Penza”
  • Dutch: “Penza”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пенза”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пензе”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بينزا”
  • Erzya: “Пенза ош”
  • Esperanto: “Penza”
  • Estonian: “Penza”
  • Finnish: “Penza”
  • French: “Penza”
  • Georgian: “პენზა”
  • German: “Pensa”
  • Greek: “Πένζα”
  • Gujarati: “પેન્ઝા”
  • Hausa: “Penza”
  • Hawaiian: “Peni (kūlanakauhale)”
  • Hebrew: “פנזה”
  • Hindi: “पेंज़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Penza”
  • Ido: “Penza”
  • Inari Sami: “Penza”
  • Indonesian: “Penza”
  • Irish: “Penza”
  • Italian: “Penza”
  • Japanese: “ペンザ”
  • Kalmyk: “Пенза балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆಂಝ”
  • Kikuyu: “Penza”
  • Kirghiz: “Пенза”
  • Korean: “펜자”
  • Ladin: “Pensa”
  • Latin: “Pensa”
  • Latvian: “Penza”
  • Lithuanian: “Penza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pensa”
  • Malay: “Penza”
  • Maltese: “Pensa”
  • Maltese: “Penza”
  • Marathi: “पेन्झा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Penza”
  • Mingrelian: “პენზა”
  • Moksha: “Пенза”
  • Mongolian: “Пенза”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پينزا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Penza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penza”
  • Norwegian: “Penza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Penza”
  • Ossetian: “Пензæ”
  • Persian: “پنزا”
  • Polish: “Penza”
  • Portuguese: “Penza”
  • Pushto: “پېنزا”
  • Romanian: “Penza”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пенза”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пензэ”
  • Russian: “Пенза”
  • Rusyn: “Пенза”
  • Scots: “Penza”
  • Serbian: “Пенза”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Penza”
  • Silesian: “Penza”
  • Sinhala: “පෙන්සා”
  • Slovak: “Penza”
  • Slovenian: “Penza”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنزا”
  • Spanish: “Penza”
  • Swahili: “Penza”
  • Swedish: “Penza”
  • Tagalog: “Penza”
  • Tajik: “Пенза”
  • Talysh: “Penza”
  • Tamil: “பென்சா”
  • Tatar: “Пенза”
  • Telugu: “పెంజా”
  • Thai: “เปนซา”
  • Tumbuka: “Penza”
  • Turkish: “Penza”
  • Udmurt: “Пенза”
  • Ukrainian: “Пенза”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Penza”
  • Urdu: “پینزا”
  • Uzbek: “Penza”
  • Venetian: “Penza”
  • Veps: “Penz”
  • Vietnamese: “Penza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Penza”
  • Welsh: “Penza”
  • Western Frisian: “Penza”
  • Western Panjabi: “پینزا”
  • Wu Chinese: “奔萨”
  • Yue Chinese: “奔薩”

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