Penza Oblast
Penza Oblast is a region in the Middle Volga, bordering Tambov Oblast to the west, Ryazan Oblast to the northwest, Mordovia to the north, Ulyanovsk Oblast to the east, and Saratov Oblast to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Penza is the large industrial capital of Penza Oblast in Russia. 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.
Penza Oblast
- Type: State with 1,330,000 residents
- Description: federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Penza”
- Neighbors: Mordovia, Ryazan Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Tambov Oblast, and Ulyanovsk Oblast
- Categories: oblast of Russia, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
53.1655° or 53° 9′ 56″ northLongitude of center
44.7879° or 44° 47′ 17″ eastPopulation
1,330,000Elevation
252 metres (827 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 771205162OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Penza Oblast” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Oblast Penza”
- Afrikaans: “Penza-oblast”
- Arabic: “بانزا أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “بينزا أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بينزا”
- Armenian: “Պենզայի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Óblast de Penza”
- Azerbaijani: “Penza vilayəti”
- Bashkir: “Пенза өлкәһе”
- Basque: “Penza oblasta”
- Belarusian: “Пензенская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Пензенская вобласьць”
- Bengali: “পেঞ্জা ওব্লাস্ট”
- Bosnian: “Penzanska oblast”
- Bosnian: “Penzjanska oblast”
- Breton: “Oblast Penza”
- Bulgarian: “Пензенска област”
- Catalan: “óblast de Penza”
- Catalan: “Óblast de Penza”
- Catalan: “província de Penza”
- Catalan: “Província de Penza”
- Cebuano: “Penzenskaya Oblast‘”
- Cebuano: “Penzenskaya Oblast’”
- Chechen: “Пензин область”
- Chinese: “Penza Chiu”
- Chinese: “奔萨州”
- Chinese: “奔薩州”
- Chuvash: “Пенза облаçĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Penza vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Penzenska oblast”
- Croatian: “Penzjanska oblast”
- Czech: “Penza Oblast (Russia)”
- Czech: “Penzenská oblast”
- Danish: “Pensa oblast”
- Dimli (individual language): “Penza”
- Dutch: “Oblast Penza”
- Dutch: “Penza”
- Eastern Mari: “Пенза вел”
- Eastern Mari: “Пензе вел”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بانزا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بينزا اوبلاست”
- Erzya: “Пенза ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Penza provinco”
- Estonian: “Penza oblast”
- Finnish: “Penzan alue”
- French: “oblast de Penza”
- French: “Oblast de Penza”
- French: “Penza”
- French: “région de Penza”
- Galician: “Óblast de Penza”
- Georgian: “პენზის ოლქი”
- German: “Oblast Pensa”
- German: “Pensa”
- German: “Penza Oblast (Russia)”
- Greek: “Όμπλαστ της Πένζα”
- Gujarati: “પેન્ઝા ઓબ્લાસ્ટ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Penza-chû”
- Hebrew: “מחוז פנזה”
- Hebrew: “פנזה”
- Hindi: “पेन्ज़ा ओब्लास्ट”
- Hungarian: “Penzai terület”
- Icelandic: “Pensafylki”
- Icelandic: “Penzafylki”
- Ido: “Provinco Penza”
- Indonesian: “Oblast Penza”
- Irish: “Cúige Phenza”
- Italian: “oblast‘ di Penza”
- Italian: “Oblast’ di Penza”
- Japanese: “ペンザ州”
- Kalmyk: “Пенса төгәлң”
- Kannada: “ಪೆನ್ಜಾ ಒಬ್ಲಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Komi: “Пенза обласьт”
- Korean: “펜자”
- Korean: “펜자주”
- Ladin: “Oblast de Pensa”
- Latin: “Regio Pensensis”
- Latin: “Regio Penzensis”
- Latvian: “Penzas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Penzos sritis”
- Lombard: “Oblast de Penza”
- Macedonian: “Пензенска област”
- Macedonian: “Пензенска Област”
- Malay: “Wilayah Penza”
- Marathi: “पेन्झा ओब्लास्त”
- Mazanderani: “پنزا اوبلاست”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Penza Ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Penza Chiu”
- Mingrelian: “პენზაშ ოლქი”
- Moksha: “Пензань аймак”
- Mongolian: “Пенза муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Pensa (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Pensa”
- Northern Luri: “آستون پنزا”
- Northern Sami: “Penza oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Penza oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Penza”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penza oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penza”
- Norwegian: “Penza oblast”
- Norwegian: “Penzenskaja oblast”
- Ossetian: “Пензæйы облæст”
- Pampanga: “Penza Oblast”
- Persian: “استان پنزا”
- Polish: “Obwód penzeński”
- Portuguese: “Oblast de Penza”
- Pushto: “پېنزا ولايت”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Penza”
- Russian: “Пензенская область”
- Russian: “Пензенская Область”
- Scots: “Penza Oblast”
- Serbian: “Пензенска област”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Penzjanska oblast”
- Sinhala: “පෙන්සා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Penzianska oblasť”
- Slovenian: “Penzenska oblast”
- South Azerbaijani: “پنزا اوبلاستی”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Penza”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Penza”
- Swahili: “Penza Oblast”
- Swedish: “Penza oblast”
- Swedish: “Penza”
- Tagalog: “Penza Oblast”
- Talysh: “Penza vilojət”
- Tamil: “பென்சனா ஒப்ளாஸ்ட்”
- Tamil: “பென்சா ஒப்லாஸ்து”
- Tamil: “பென்சா மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Пенза өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “పెంజా ఓబ్లాస్ట్”
- Thai: “แคว้นเปนซา”
- Turkish: “Penza Oblastı”
- Udmurt: “Пенза улос”
- Ukrainian: “Пензенська область”
- Upper Sorbian: “Oblasć Penza”
- Urdu: “پینزا اوبلاست”
- Uzbek: “Penza viloyati”
- Veps: “Penzan agj”
- Vietnamese: “Penza”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Penza”
- Waray (Philippines): “Penza Oblast”
- Welsh: “Oblast Penza”
- Western Frisian: “Penza (oblast)”
- Western Frisian: “Penza”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پینزا”
- Wu Chinese: “奔萨州”
- Yakut: “Пенза уобалаһа”
- Yue Chinese: “奔薩州”
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