Valka
Valka is a town in northern Latvia, on the border with Estonia. Valka and the Estonian town Valga are twins, separated by the Estonian/Latvian border but using the slogan "One Town, Two Countries".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Laima Gutmane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Atsirlin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Valga Museum and Valga Town Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Valga and Lugaži.
Valga
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Valga is a town in southern Estonia, on the border with Latvia. Valga and Valka 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.
Lugaži
Village
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Lugaži is a village in the Valka Parish of Valka municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. Lugaži is situated 4 km west of Valka.
Valka
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia, border city, and locality
- Location: Valka, Valka Municipality, Vidzeme, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
57.7729° or 57° 46′ 23″ northLongitude
26.016° or 26° 0′ 58″ eastPopulation
5,890Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV VALOpen location code
9G98Q2F8+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 462007984OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Upper Sorbian—“Valka” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Valka”
- Arabic: “فالكا”
- Armenian: “Վալկա”
- Basque: “Valka”
- Basque: “Walk”
- Belarusian: “Валка”
- Bulgarian: “Валка”
- Catalan: “Valka”
- Catalan: “Walk”
- Cebuano: “Valka”
- Chinese: “瓦尔卡”
- Chinese: “瓦爾卡”
- Czech: “Valka”
- Danish: “Valka”
- Dutch: “Valka”
- Esperanto: “Valka”
- Esperanto: “Valkas novads”
- Esperanto: “Walk”
- Estonian: “Läti Valga”
- Estonian: “Läti-Valga”
- Estonian: “Valka”
- Finnish: “Valka”
- French: “Valka”
- Georgian: “ვალკა”
- German: “Valka”
- German: “Walk”
- Greek: “Βάλκα”
- Hebrew: “וואלקה”
- Hungarian: “Valka”
- Indonesian: “Valka”
- Italian: “Valka”
- Italian: “Walk”
- Japanese: “ヴァルカ”
- Kazakh: “Valka”
- Kazakh: “Валка”
- Kazakh: “ۆالكا”
- Korean: “발카”
- Latvian: “Läti-Valga”
- Latvian: “Valka”
- Latvian: “Valkas pilsēta”
- Latvian: “Walk”
- Lithuanian: “Valka”
- Macedonian: “Валка”
- Moksha: “Валка”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Valka”
- Norwegian: “Valka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Valka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Walk”
- Ossetian: “Валкæ”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਲਕਾ”
- Persian: “والکا”
- Polish: “Valka”
- Polish: “Wałk”
- Portuguese: “Valka”
- Romanian: “Valka”
- Russian: “Валка”
- Samogitian: “Valka”
- Serbian: “Valka”
- Serbian: “Валка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valka”
- Silesian: “Valka”
- Slovak: “Valka”
- Slovenian: “Valka”
- Spanish: “Valka”
- Spanish: “Walk”
- Swedish: “Valka”
- Tatar: “Валка”
- Turkish: “Valka”
- Ukrainian: “Валка”
- Upper Sorbian: “Valka”
- Upper Sorbian: “Walk”
- “Valka”
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