Polotsk
Polotsk is a city in Belarus, in Vitebsk Oblast. First mentioned in 862, it is the oldest city in Belarus. Now it is a city of local importance with 83,000 inhabitants and with considerable architectural heritage from the times of old Rus and later periods.
- Type: Town with 80,800 residents
- Description: city in Belarus
- Also known as: “Paltejsborg”, “Paltejsk”, “Peltiscum”, “Plotzkow”, “Podolsk”, “Polacak”, “Polacka”, “Polackas”, “Polatsak”, “Polatsk”, “Polatzk”, “Polazak”, “Polocia”, “Polocium”, “Polotium”, “Polotzk”, “Polozk”, “Potolsk”, “По́лацк”, “Полотеск”, “По́лотєскъ”, “По́лотьскъ”, “По́лоцк”, “폴로츠크”, and “ポロツク”
- Address: Полацкі раён
Places of Interest
Highlights: Boris stone and Saint Sophia Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ekimań 2 and Ekiman‘.
Polotsk
- Categories: city of oblast subordinance, city of raion subordinance, and locality
- Location: Vitebsk Region, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.4855° or 55° 29′ 8″ north
Longitude
28.7682° or 28° 46′ 6″ east
Population
80,800
Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BY POK
Open location code
9G7CFQP9+57
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Polotsk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Polatsk”
- Arabic: “بولوتسك”
- Armenian: “Պոլոցկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Polotsk”
- Basque: “Polotsk”
- Belarusian: “Полацак”
- Belarusian: “Полацк”
- Bengali: “পোলোস্ক”
- Breton: “Polatsk”
- Bulgarian: “Полоцк”
- Catalan: “Pòlatsk”
- Cebuano: “Polack”
- Chechen: “Полоцк”
- Chinese: “波拉茨克”
- Chinese: “波洛茨克”
- Church Slavic: “Полотьскъ”
- Chuvash: “Полоцк”
- Croatian: “Polock”
- Czech: “Polock”
- Danish: “Polotsk”
- Dutch: “Polatsk”
- Eastern Mari: “Полоцк”
- Esperanto: “Polack”
- Estonian: “Połack”
- Estonian: “Polatsk”
- Finnish: “Polatsk”
- French: “Polatsk”
- French: “Polotsk”
- Galician: “Polack”
- Georgian: “პოლოცკი”
- German: “Polazk”
- Greek: “Πόλοτσκ”
- Gujarati: “પોલોત્સક”
- Hebrew: “פולאצק”
- Hindi: “पोलट्स्क”
- Hungarian: “Polack”
- Indonesian: “Polotsk”
- Irish: “Polack”
- Italian: “Polack”
- Japanese: “ポラツク”
- Kannada: “ಪೋಲೊಟ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Kazakh: “Полоцк”
- Korean: “폴라츠크”
- Latin: “Polotia”
- Latvian: “Polocka”
- Lithuanian: “Polockas”
- Low German: “Polazk”
- Malay: “Polotsk”
- Marathi: “पोलोस्क”
- Northern Frisian: “Polatsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Polatsk”
- Norwegian: “Polatsk”
- Ossetian: “Полоцк”
- Persian: “پولوتسک”
- Polish: “Połock”
- Portuguese: “Polatsk”
- Romanian: “Polack”
- Romanian: “Polațk”
- Romanian: “Poloțk”
- Russian: “Полоцк”
- Scots: “Polotsk”
- Serbian: “Polack”
- Serbian: “Полацк”
- Serbian: “Полоцк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Polock”
- Sinhala: “පොලොට්ස්ක්”
- Slovenian: “Polock”
- Spanish: “Polatsk”
- Spanish: “Pólatsk”
- Spanish: “Pólotsk”
- Swahili: “Polotsk”
- Swedish: “Polotsk”
- Tahitian: “Polatsk”
- Tamil: “போலாட்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Полатск”
- Tatar: “Полоцк”
- Telugu: “పోలాస్క్”
- Thai: “โปลอตสค์”
- Turkish: “Polatsak”
- Turkish: “Polotsk”
- Ukrainian: “Полацьк”
- Ukrainian: “Полоцьк”
- Upper Sorbian: “Polack”
- Urdu: “پولوتسک”
- Vietnamese: “Polotsk”
- Welsh: “Polotsk”
- Western Frisian: “Polatsk”
- Yiddish: “פּאָלאָצק”
- “Polack”
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