Tukums
Tukums is a town in Latvia, some 70 kilometres to the west of Riga. It's also the birthplace of Samanta Tina, a semi-famous Latvian singer.
- Type: Town with 16,000 residents
- Description: city and capital of Tukums Municipality, Latvia
- Also known as: “Tukkum”, “Tukuma novads”, and “Tukuma pilsēta”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tukums I and Lutheran church in Tukums.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Durbe Manor and Durbe.
Tukums
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Tukums, Tukums Municipality, Riga region, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
56.967° or 56° 58′ 1″ north
Longitude
23.1525° or 23° 9′ 9″ east
Population
16,000
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LV TKM
Open location code
9G85X582+QX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Võro—“Tukums” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቱኩምስ”
- Arabic: “توكوموس”
- Armenian: “Տուկմուս”
- Armenian: “Տուկումս”
- Azerbaijani: “Tukums”
- Bashkir: “Тукумс”
- Basque: “Tukums”
- Belarusian: “Тукумс”
- Bengali: “টুকুমস”
- Bulgarian: “Тукумс”
- Catalan: “Tukums”
- Cebuano: “Tukums (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Tukums”
- Chinese: “图库姆斯”
- Chinese: “圖庫姆斯”
- Czech: “Tukums”
- Danish: “Tukums”
- Dutch: “Tukums”
- Esperanto: “Tukums”
- Estonian: “Tukums”
- Finnish: “Tukums”
- French: “Tukums”
- German: “Tukums”
- German: “Tuckum” (historical)
- Hausa: “Tukums”
- Hebrew: “טוקומס”
- Hindi: “टुकुम्स”
- Hindi: “तुकुम्स”
- Hungarian: “Tukums”
- Inari Sami: “Tukums”
- Indonesian: “Tukums”
- Italian: “Tukums”
- Japanese: “トゥクムス”
- Javanese: “Tukums”
- Kazakh: “Twkwms”
- Kazakh: “Тукумс”
- Kazakh: “تۋكۋمس”
- Kirghiz: “Тукумс”
- Korean: “투쿰스”
- Latgalian: “Tukums”
- Latvian: “Tukums”
- Lithuanian: “Tukumas”
- Liv: “Tukāmō”
- Luxembourgish: “Tukums”
- Malay: “Tukums”
- Moksha: “Тукумс”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tukums”
- Norwegian: “Tukums”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tukums”
- Oromo: “Tukums”
- Ossetian: “Тукумс”
- Panjabi: “ਟੁਕੁਮਸ”
- Panjabi: “ਟੂਕੂਮਸ”
- Persian: “توکومس”
- Polish: “Tukum”
- Polish: “Tukums”
- Portuguese: “Tukums”
- Pushto: “توکومس”
- Russian: “Туккум” (historical)
- Russian: “Тукумс”
- Samogitian: “Tokomis”
- Samogitian: “Tukumės”
- Scots: “Tukums”
- Serbian: “Tukums”
- Serbian: “Тукум”
- Serbian: “Тукумс”
- Silesian: “Tukums”
- Slovak: “Tukums”
- Slovenian: “Tukums”
- Somali: “Tukums”
- Spanish: “Tukums”
- Swahili: “Tukums”
- Swedish: “Tukums”
- Tajik: “Тукумс”
- Tatar: “Тукумс”
- Turkish: “Tukums”
- Ukrainian: “Тукумс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tukums”
- Urdu: “ٹکمز”
- Urdu: “ٹوکومس”
- Uzbek: “Tukums”
- Volapük: “Tukums”
- Võro: “Tukums”
- “Tukums”
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