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.
- Type: City with 126,000 residents
- Description: city in Brest region, Belarus
- Also known as: “Pіnsk”, “Пинськ”, “Пинське”, and “品斯克”
Places of Interest
Highlights: 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
Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Pinsk
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″ north
Longitude
26.1025° or 26° 6′ 9″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
148 metres (486 feet)
Established
1097
Open location code
9G484463+H2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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: “平斯克”
- Croatian: “Pinsk”
- Czech: “Pinsk”
- Danish: “Pinsk”
- Dutch: “Pinsk”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پينسك”
- Esperanto: “Pinsk”
- Esperanto: “Pinsko”
- Estonian: “Pinsk”
- Finnish: “Pinsk”
- French: “Pinsk”
- Galician: “Pinsk”
- German: “Pinsk”
- Greek: “Πινσκ”
- Gujarati: “પિન્સ્ક”
- Hebrew: “פינסק”
- Hindi: “पिनस्क”
- Hungarian: “Pinszk”
- Indonesian: “Pinsk”
- Irish: “Pinsk”
- Italian: “Pinsk”
- Japanese: “ピンスク”
- Kannada: “ಪಿನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Kazakh: “Пинск”
- Korean: “핀스크”
- Kurdish: “Pînsk”
- Latin: “Pinscum”
- Latvian: “Pinska”
- Lithuanian: “Pinskas”
- Malay: “Pinsk”
- Maori: “Pinsk”
- Marathi: “पिंस्क”
- Moksha: “Пинск”
- Northern Frisian: “Pinsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pinsk”
- 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”
- Tahitian: “Pinsk”
- Tamil: “பின்சக்”
- Tatar: “Пинск”
- Telugu: “పిన్స్క్”
- Thai: “ปินสก์”
- Turkish: “Pinsk”
- Ukrainian: “Пінськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pinsk”
- Urdu: “پینسک”
- Uzbek: “Pinsk”
- Venetian: “Pinsk”
- Vietnamese: “Pinsk”
- Volapük: “Pinsk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pinsk”
- Welsh: “Pinsk”
- Western Frisian: “Pinsk”
- Yiddish: “פינסק”
- Yiddish: “פּינסק”
- “Pinsk”
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