Pinsk
Pinsk is a city in Belarus in Brest Oblast located at the confluence of the Pina and Prypiat rivers. First mentioned in 1097, it enjoyed reasonable local importance for centuries, being at different times a seat of Orthodox bishops, a location of a big Jesuit college, and home for a thriving Jewish community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 126,000 residents
- Description: city in Brest region, Belarus
- Also known as: “Pińsk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Pinsk.
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church
Photo: Kazimier Lachnovič, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary also called Pinsk Cathedral, is an eighteenth-century Catholic Baroque-style temple in Pinsk, Belarus.
Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Pinsk
Photo: Maksimus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Charles Borromeo is a former Roman Catholic church in Pinsk, Belarus. Constructed between 1770 and 1782, it was consecrated in the name of St.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Višavičy and Zapollie.
Pinsk
- Categories: city of oblast subordinance, big city, and locality
- Location: Brest Oblast, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.1114° or 52° 6′ 41″ northLongitude
26.1025° or 26° 6′ 9″ eastPopulation
126,000Elevation
148 metres (486 feet)Inception
1097Open location code
9G484463+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 242978912OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yiddish—“Pinsk” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Pinsk”
- Arabic: “بينسك”
- Armenian: “Պինսկ”
- Asturian: “Pinsk”
- Azerbaijani: “Pinsk”
- Basque: “Pinsk”
- Belarusian: “Пінск”
- Bengali: “পিন্সক”
- Bosnian: “Pinsk”
- Breton: “Pink”
- Bulgarian: “Пинск”
- Catalan: “Pinsk”
- Cebuano: “Pinsk”
- Chechen: “Пинск”
- Chinese: “品斯克”
- Chinese: “平斯克”
- Croatian: “Pinsk”
- Czech: “Pinsk”
- Czech: “Pińsk”
- Danish: “Pinsk”
- Danish: “Pińsk”
- Danish: “Пинск”
- Danish: “Пінск”
- Dutch: “Pinsk”
- Dutch: “Pіnsk”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پينسك”
- Esperanto: “Pinsk”
- Esperanto: “Pinsko”
- Estonian: “Pinsk”
- Finnish: “Pinsk”
- French: “Pinsk”
- Galician: “Pinsk”
- German: “Pinsk”
- German: “Pińsk”
- Greek: “Πινσκ”
- Gujarati: “પિન્સ્ક”
- Hebrew: “פינסק”
- Hindi: “पिनस्क”
- Hungarian: “Pinszk”
- Indonesian: “Pinsk”
- Irish: “Pinsk”
- Italian: “Pinsk”
- Italian: “Pińsk”
- Japanese: “ピンスク”
- Kannada: “ಪಿನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “핀스크”
- Kurdish: “Pînsk”
- Latin: “Pinscum”
- Latin: “Pinsk”
- Latvian: “Pinska”
- Lithuanian: “Pinskas”
- Malay: “Pinsk”
- Maori: “Pinsk”
- Marathi: “पिंस्क”
- Moksha: “Пинск”
- Northern Frisian: “Pinsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pinsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pińsk”
- Norwegian: “Pinsk”
- Ossetian: “Пинск”
- Persian: “پینسک”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pinsk”
- Polish: “Pińsk”
- Portuguese: “Pinsk”
- Romanian: “Pinsk”
- Russian: “Пинск”
- Serbian: “Pinsk”
- Serbian: “Пинск”
- Silesian: “Pińsk”
- Sinhala: “පින්ස්ක්, බෙලරුස්”
- Sinhala: “පින්ස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Pinsk”
- Slovenian: “Pinsk”
- Spanish: “Pinsk”
- Swedish: “Pinsk”
- Swedish: “Pińsk”
- Tahitian: “Pinsk”
- Tamil: “பின்சக்”
- Tatar: “Пинск”
- Telugu: “పిన్స్క్”
- Thai: “ปินสก์”
- Turkish: “Pinsk”
- Ukrainian: “Пинськ”
- Ukrainian: “Пинське”
- Ukrainian: “Пінськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pinsk”
- Urdu: “پینسک”
- Uzbek: “Pinsk”
- Venetian: “Pinsk”
- Vietnamese: “Pinsk”
- Volapük: “Pinsk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pinsk”
- Welsh: “Pinsk”
- Western Frisian: “Pinsk”
- Yiddish: “Pinsk”
- Yiddish: “פינסק”
- Yiddish: “פּינסק”
- “Pinsk”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pinsk”. Photo: YYaroshko, CC BY-SA 3.0.