Valka

Valka is a town in northern , on the border with . Valka and the Estonian town Valga are twins, separated by the Estonian/Latvian border but using the slogan "One Town, Two Countries".
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  • Type: Town with 4,560 residents
  • Description: town and capital of Valka Municipality, Latvia
  • Also known as: “Läti Valga”, “Läti-Valga”, “Valga”, “Valk”, “Valkas”, “Valkas novads”, and “Valkas pilsēta”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Valga Museum and Valga Town Hall.

Museum
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Town hall
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Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valga and Lugaži.

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is a town in southern , on the border with .

Village
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is a village in the Valka Parish of Valka municipality in the region of . is situated 4 km west of Valka.

Valka

Latitude
57.7729° or 57° 46′ 23″ north
Longitude
26.016° or 26° 0′ 58″ east
Population
4,560
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LV VAL
Open location code
9G98Q2F8+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 462007984
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
454572
Wiki­data ID
Q323774
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Valka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Valka”
  • Amharic: “ቫልካ”
  • Arabic: “فالكا”
  • Armenian: “Վալկա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Valka”
  • Basque: “Valka”
  • Belarusian: “Валка”
  • Bengali: “ভালকা”
  • Bulgarian: “Валка”
  • Catalan: “Valka”
  • Cebuano: “Valka”
  • Chinese: “瓦尔卡”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾卡”
  • Czech: “Valka”
  • Danish: “Valka”
  • Dutch: “Valka”
  • Esperanto: “Valka”
  • Estonian: “Valka”
  • Finnish: “Valka”
  • French: “Valka”
  • Georgian: “ვალკა”
  • German: “Valka”
  • German: “Walk”
  • Greek: “Βάλκα”
  • Hausa: “Valka”
  • Hebrew: “וואלקה”
  • Hindi: “वाल्का”
  • Hungarian: “Valka”
  • Indonesian: “Valka”
  • Italian: “Valka”
  • Japanese: “ヴァルカ”
  • Javanese: “Valka”
  • Kazakh: “Valka”
  • Kazakh: “Валка”
  • Kazakh: “ۆالكا”
  • Kirghiz: “Валка”
  • Korean: “발카”
  • Latvian: “Valka”
  • Lithuanian: “Valka”
  • Macedonian: “Валка”
  • Malay: “Valka”
  • Moksha: “Валка”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valka”
  • Norwegian: “Valka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Valka”
  • Oromo: “Valka”
  • Ossetian: “Валкæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਲਕਾ”
  • Persian: “والکا”
  • Polish: “Valka”
  • Polish: “Wałk”
  • Portuguese: “Valka”
  • Pushto: “والکا”
  • Romanian: “Valka”
  • Russian: “Валка”
  • Samogitian: “Valka”
  • Serbian: “Valka”
  • Serbian: “Валка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valka”
  • Silesian: “Valka”
  • Slovak: “Valka”
  • Slovenian: “Valka”
  • Somali: “Valka”
  • Spanish: “Valka”
  • Swahili: “Valka”
  • Swedish: “Valka”
  • Tajik: “Валка”
  • Tatar: “Валка”
  • Turkish: “Valka”
  • Ukrainian: “Валка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Valka”
  • Urdu: “والکا”
  • Uzbek: “Valka”
  • “Valka”

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