Valga

Valga is a town in southern , on the border with . Valga and in Latvia are actually one town, Valga making up the larger part with around 12,000 inhabitants in 2021, almost three times the population of Valka.
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  • Type: Town with 12,000 residents
  • Description: town in southern Estonia
  • Also known as: “Valga linn”, “Valga, Estonia”, “Valgo”, “Valk”, “Walga”, “Валґа”, and “Валк”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Valga railway station and Valga Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Vesahjr, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Museum
Photo: Oktoober, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Town hall
Photo: Kyng, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valka.

Photo: Atsirlin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in northern , on the border with .

Valga

Latitude
57.777° or 57° 46′ 37″ north
Longitude
26.0316° or 26° 1′ 54″ east
Population
12,000
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EE VLG
Open location code
9G98Q2GJ+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29525427
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
587876
Wiki­data ID
Q193905
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Mari—“Valga” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Valga”
  • Arabic: “فالغا”
  • Armenian: “Վալգա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Valqa”
  • Bashkir: “Валга”
  • Basque: “Valga (Estonia)”
  • Basque: “Valga”
  • Belarusian: “Валга”
  • Bulgarian: “Валга”
  • Catalan: “Valga”
  • Cebuano: “Valga”
  • Chinese: “瓦尔加”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾加”
  • Chuvash: “Валга”
  • Croatian: “Valga”
  • Czech: “Valga”
  • Danish: “Valga”
  • Dutch: “Valga”
  • Eastern Mari: “Валга”
  • Erzya: “Валга ош”
  • Esperanto: “Valga”
  • Estonian: “Valga”
  • Finnish: “Valga”
  • French: “Valga”
  • Galician: “Valga, Estonia”
  • Galician: “Valga”
  • Georgian: “ვალგა”
  • German: “Valga”
  • German: “Walk”
  • Greek: “Βάλγκα”
  • Hebrew: “ולגה”
  • Hindi: “वाल्गा”
  • Hungarian: “Valga”
  • Irish: “Valga”
  • Italian: “Valga”
  • Japanese: “ヴァルガ”
  • Korean: “발가”
  • Latvian: “Valga”
  • Latvian: “Valka”
  • Lithuanian: “Valga”
  • Low German: “Valga (Eestland)”
  • Low German: “Valga”
  • Luxembourgish: “Valga”
  • Moksha: “Валга”
  • Northern Frisian: “Valga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valga i Estland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valga”
  • Norwegian: “Valga”
  • Ossetian: “Валгæ”
  • Persian: “والگا، استونی”
  • Persian: “والگا”
  • Polish: “Valga”
  • Polish: “Wałk”
  • Portuguese: “Valga”
  • Romanian: “Valga, Estonia”
  • Romanian: “Valga”
  • Russian: “Валга”
  • Russian: “Валка”
  • Samogitian: “Valga”
  • Serbian: “Valga”
  • Serbian: “Валга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valga, Estonija”
  • Silesian: “Valga”
  • Slovak: “Valga”
  • Slovenian: “Valga”
  • Spanish: “Valga”
  • Swedish: “Valga”
  • Tatar: “Валга”
  • Turkish: “Valga, Estonya”
  • Udmurt: “Валга”
  • Ukrainian: “Валга”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Valga”
  • Urdu: “والگا، استونیا”
  • Veps: “Valg”
  • Vietnamese: “Valga, Estonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Valga”
  • Volapük: “Valga”
  • Võro: “Valga”
  • Western Mari: “Валга”
  • “Valga”

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