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.
Photo: botfor, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pinsk
Church
The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary also called Pinsk Cathedral… Photo: Kazimier Lachnovič, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
Pinsk
- Type: City
- Description: city in Belarus
- Categories: city of oblast subordinance and big city
- Location: Brest Oblast, Belarus, Europe
Latitude 52.1114° or 52° 6' 41" north | Longitude 26.1025° or 26° 6' 9.1" east |
Population 138,000 | Elevation 139 metres (456 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 242978912 | GeoNames ID 623549 |
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Also Known As
- Akan: Pinsk
- Arabic: Pinsk
- Arabic: بينسك
- Armenian: Պինսկ
- Asturian: Pinsk
- Azerbaijani: Pinsk
- Basque: Pinsk
- Belarusian: Пінск
- Bengali: পিন্সক
- Bosnian: Pinsk
- Bulgarian: Пинск
- Catalan: Pinsk
- Cebuano: Pinsk
- Cebuano: Rachny Port 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
- English: Pińsk
- 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
- Italian: Pinsk
- Italian: Pińsk
- Japanese: ピンスク
- Kannada: ಪಿನ್ಸ್ಕ್
- Korean: 핀스크
- Latin: Pinscum
- Latin: Pinsk
- Latvian: Pinska
- Lithuanian: Pinskas
- Malay: Pinsk
- Marathi: पिंस्क
- Northern Frisian: Pinsk
- Norwegian: Pinsk
- Norwegian Bokmål: Pinsk
- Norwegian Bokmål: Pińsk
- Persian: پینسک
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Pinsk
- Polish: Pińsk
- Portuguese: Pinsk
- Romanian: Pinsk
- Russian: Пинск
- Serbian: Pinsk
- Serbian: Пинск
- Silesian: Pińsk
- Sinhala: පින්ස්ක්
- Slovenian: Pinsk
- Spanish: Pinsk
- Swedish: Pinsk
- Swedish: Pińsk
- Swedish: Pіnsk
- Tahitian: Pinsk
- Tamil: பின்சக்
- Tatar: Пинск
- Telugu: పిన్స్క్
- Thai: ปินสค์
- Turkish: Pinsk
- Ukrainian: Пинськ
- Ukrainian: Пинське
- Ukrainian: Пінськ
- Upper Sorbian: Pinsk
- Urdu: پینسک
- Uzbek: Pinsk
- Vietnamese: Pinsk
- Volapük: Pinsk
- Waray (Philippines): Pinsk
- Welsh: Pinsk
- Yiddish: Pinsk
- Yiddish: פּינסק
Other Places Named Pinsk
In the Area
Localities
- БелявщинаSuburb
- микрорайон ЗападныйSuburb
- АльбрехтовоSuburb
- СеверныйSuburb
- Микрорайон 'Жемчужный'Suburb
- микрорайон ЛугиSuburb
Landmarks
- Rachny Port PinskPort
- PinaStream
- PinskRailway station
- Stantsyya Yasyel’daRailroad station, 12 km northeast
- Ozero GorodishchenskoyeLake, 13 km northeast
- Ozero BogatyrëvkaLake, 15 km southwest
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