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Central Russia
Tver Oblast

Tver

Tver is a city in . It was the capital of the powerful medieval Tver Principality and one-time rival to Moscow as Russia's preeminent power base.
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  • Type: City with 415,000 residents
  • Description: town and administrative center of Tver region in western Russia
  • Also known as: “Kalinin”, “Tver‘”, and “город Тверь”
  • Address: городской округ Тверь

Places of Interest

Highlights include Travel Palace and Botanical Garden of Tver State University.

Castle
Photo: Tver777, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle.

Park
Photo: Barsxxx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
— the northernmost botanical garden with an exhibition of steppe plants, only one of its kind in the .

Square
Photo: Tver777, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morozovsky Gorodok in Tver and Avvakumovo.

Quarter
Photo: Tver777, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a quarter.

Village
is a rural locality and the administrative center of Avvakumovskoye Rural Settlement of , , . The population was 1284 as of 2017. There are 27 streets.

Suburb
Photo: Smart Vombat, CC BY 3.0.
is a suburb.

Tver

Latitude
56.8587° or 56° 51′ 31″ north
Longitude
35.9208° or 35° 55′ 15″ east
Population
415,000
Elevation
132 metres (433 feet)
IATA airport code
KLD
United Nations Location Code
RU TVR
Open location code
9G8QVW5C+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27000366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
480060
Wiki­data ID
Q2288
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tver” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Twer”
  • Arabic: “تفير”
  • Armenian: “Տվեր”
  • Asturian: “Tver”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tver”
  • Bashkir: “Тверь”
  • Basque: “Tver”
  • Belarusian: “Калінін”
  • Belarusian: “Цвер”
  • Belarusian: “Цьвер”
  • Bengali: “তিভের”
  • Breton: “Tver”
  • Bulgarian: “Твер”
  • Catalan: “Tver”
  • Cebuano: “Tver (kapital sa lalawigan sa Rusya)”
  • Cebuano: “Tver”
  • Chechen: “Тверь”
  • Chinese: “Tver”
  • Chinese: “特維爾”
  • Chinese: “特维尔”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tver”
  • Croatian: “Tver”
  • Czech: “Tver”
  • Danish: “Tver”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tver”
  • Dutch: “Tver”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тверь”
  • Erzya: “Тверь ош”
  • Esperanto: “Tver”
  • Esperanto: “Tverj”
  • Estonian: “Tver”
  • Finnish: “Tver”
  • French: “Tver”
  • Georgian: “ტვერი”
  • German: “Twer”
  • German: “Kalinin” (historical)
  • Greek: “Τβερ”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્વેર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tver”
  • Hebrew: “טבר”
  • Hindi: “त्वेर”
  • Hungarian: “Tver”
  • Indonesian: “Tver”
  • Irish: “Tver”
  • Italian: “Tver‘”
  • Italian: “Tver’”
  • Japanese: “トヴェリ”
  • Japanese: “トベリ”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ವೇರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тверь”
  • Kirghiz: “Тверь”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Тверь”
  • Korean: “트베리”
  • Kotava: “Tver”
  • Ladin: “Kalinin”
  • Ladin: “Tver”
  • Latin: “Tueria”
  • Latvian: “Tvera”
  • Lithuanian: “Tverė”
  • Low German: “Twer”
  • Macedonian: “Твер”
  • Malagasy: “Tver”
  • Malay: “Tver”
  • Marathi: “त्वेर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tver”
  • Mingrelian: “ტვერი”
  • Mirandese: “Tver”
  • Moksha: “Тверь”
  • Mongolian: “Тверь”
  • Nauru: “Tver”
  • Northern Frisian: “Twer (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Twer”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tver”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tver”
  • Norwegian: “Tver”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tver”
  • Ossetian: “Тверь”
  • Persian: “تور”
  • Polish: “Kalinin”
  • Polish: “Twer”
  • Portuguese: “Tver”
  • Pushto: “توېر”
  • Romanian: “Tver”
  • Russian: “Калинин” (historical)
  • Russian: “Тверь”
  • Scots: “Tver”
  • Serbian: “Твер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tver”
  • Sinhala: “ට්වර්”
  • Slovak: “Tver”
  • Slovenian: “Tver”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تور”
  • Spanish: “Tver”
  • Swahili: “Tver”
  • Swedish: “Tver”
  • Tagalog: “Tver”
  • Tajik: “Твер”
  • Talysh: “Tver”
  • Tamil: “திவெர்”
  • Tamil: “திவேர்”
  • Tatar: “Тверь”
  • Telugu: “ట్వెర్”
  • Thai: “ตเวียร์”
  • Turkish: “Tver”
  • Udmurt: “Тверь”
  • Ukrainian: “Твер”
  • Ukrainian: “Тверь”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Twer”
  • Urdu: “تور”
  • Urdu: “تویر”
  • Uzbek: “Tver”
  • Venetian: “Tver”
  • Veps: “Tver‘”
  • Veps: “Tver’”
  • Vietnamese: “Tver”
  • Walloon: “Tver”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tver”
  • Welsh: “Tver”
  • Western Frisian: “Tver”
  • Western Mari: “Тверь”
  • Western Panjabi: “توور”
  • Western Panjabi: “تویر”
  • Wu Chinese: “特维尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “特維爾”

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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 “Tver”. Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.