Plungė
Plungė is a town in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, with a population of 17,000 in 2022. The main reason to come this way is for Samogitia National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Žemaitijos kelias, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: city in Lithuania
- Also known as: “Plunge” and “Plungės”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Plungė Manor and Perkūnas Oak.
Plungė Manor
Photo: Viskonsas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plungė Manor is a former Ogiński family residential manor in Plungė, Lithuania. It now harbors the Samogitian Art Museum.
Perkūnas Oak
Photo: Žemaitijos kelias, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Perkūnas’s Oak is the oldest oak tree in Plungė Mansion Park – grows in the central area of the park next to Oginskis Palace. The diameter of Perkūnas’s Oak is 1.65 m, while its height is 25 m.
Church of St. John the Baptist, Plungė
Church
Photo: Vilensija, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St John the Baptist church buildings are the main cultural objects of Plungė Old Town. The church was built in the Romanesque revival style, with a Latin cross layout and two towers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Babrungas and Pakerai.
Babrungas
Village
Babrungas is a village in the Plungė district municipality, Lithuania. It is located on the bank of Babrungas River. Babrungas is an administrative center of Babrungas eldership. As of 2011, there were 612 inhabitants living in this village.
Pakerai
Village
Pakerai is a village in the Plungė district municipality, to the south from Plungė. As of 2011, there were 154 inhabitants living in this village.
Plungė
- Categories: city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Plungės miesto sen., Plungė District Municipality, Telšiai County, Samogitia, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
55.9139° or 55° 54′ 50″ northLongitude
21.8534° or 21° 51′ 12″ eastPopulation
20,000Elevation
106 metres (348 feet)United Nations Location Code
LT PLGOpen location code
9G73WV73+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 32444802OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Plungė” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Plungė”
- Armenian: “Պլունգե”
- Asturian: “Plungė”
- Aymara: “Pluñhi”
- Belarusian: “Плунге”
- Belarusian: “Плунгяны”
- Breton: “Plungė”
- Bulgarian: “Плунге”
- Catalan: “Plungė”
- Cebuano: “Plunge”
- Chinese: “普伦盖”
- Chinese: “普倫蓋”
- Cornish: “Plungė”
- Czech: “Plungė”
- Danish: “Plungė”
- Dimli (individual language): “Plungė”
- Dutch: “Plunge”
- Dutch: “Plungė”
- Esperanto: “Plungė”
- Estonian: “Plungė”
- Finnish: “Plungė”
- French: “Plungė”
- Galician: “Plungė”
- Georgian: “პლუნგე”
- German: “Plungė”
- German: “Plungen”
- Hebrew: “פלונגה”
- Hungarian: “Plungė”
- Indonesian: “Plungė”
- Irish: “Plungė”
- Italian: “Plungė”
- Japanese: “プルンゲ”
- Korean: “플룽게”
- Latvian: “Pluņģe”
- Lithuanian: “Plungė”
- Moksha: “Плунге”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plungė”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plungė”
- Norwegian: “Plungė”
- Persian: “پلونگه”
- Piemontese: “Plungė”
- Polish: “Płungiany”
- Pushto: “پلونګه”
- Russian: “Плугиняны”
- Russian: “Плунге”
- Russian: “Плунгяны”
- Samogitian: “Plongė”
- Scots: “Plungė”
- Serbian: “Плунге”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Plungė”
- Spanish: “Plungė”
- Swedish: “Plunge”
- Swedish: “Plungė”
- Tatar: “Плунге”
- Turkish: “Plungė”
- Ukrainian: “Плунге”
- Upper Sorbian: “Plungė”
- Urdu: “پلونگے”
- Vietnamese: “Plungė”
- Volapük: “Plungė”
- Welsh: “Plungė”
- Yue Chinese: “普倫蓋”
- “Plongė”
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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 “Plungė”. Photo: Žemaitijos kelias, CC BY-SA 4.0.