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Ventspils

Ventspils is a state city in northwestern in the historical region of Latvia, and is the sixth largest city in the country. At the beginning of 2020, Ventspils had a population of 33,906.
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  • Type: City with 42,000 residents
  • Description: state city in Latvia
  • Also known as: “Vǟnta”, “Vindau”, “Vindava”, “Wentspils”, and “Windau”
Photo: Modris Putns, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Леонид Зенкович, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ventspils Castle and Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions.

Castle
Photo: Algirdas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in Ventspils, in the region of . It is one of the oldest and most well-preserved Livonian Order castles remaining, in that it has retained its original layout since the 13th century.

Stadium
, more commonly called the Ventspils Stadions, is a multi-purpose stadium in Ventspils, . It is currently used mostly for football matches.

Railway station
Photo: ScAvenger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station on the Ventspils I – Tukums II Railway.

Ventspils

Latitude
57.3904° or 57° 23′ 25″ north
Longitude
21.5636° or 21° 33′ 49″ east
Population
42,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
VNT
United Nations Location Code
LV VNT
Open location code
9G939HR7+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29488313
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
454310
Wiki­data ID
Q104036
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ventspils” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ventspils”
  • Afrikaans: “Windau”
  • Arabic: “فينتسبيلس”
  • Armenian: “Վենտսպիլս”
  • Asturian: “Ventspils”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ventspils”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vеntspils”
  • Basque: “Ventspils”
  • Basque: “Vindava”
  • Basque: “Windau”
  • Belarusian: “Вентспілс”
  • Belarusian: “Віндава”
  • Belarusian: “Вэнтспілс”
  • Belarusian: “Вэнтсьпілс”
  • Bengali: “ভেন্টস্পিলস”
  • Breton: “Ventspils”
  • Bulgarian: “Вентспилс”
  • Catalan: “Ventspils”
  • Catalan: “Vindava”
  • Catalan: “Windau”
  • Cebuano: “Ventspils”
  • Chechen: “Вентспилс”
  • Chinese: “文次匹爾斯”
  • Chinese: “文茨皮尔斯”
  • Chinese: “文茨皮爾斯”
  • Chinese: “雲特史比斯”
  • Chuvash: “Вентспилс”
  • Croatian: “Ventspils”
  • Czech: “Ventspils”
  • Danish: “Ventspils”
  • Dutch: “Ventspils”
  • Dutch: “Vindava”
  • Dutch: “Windau”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вентспилс”
  • Esperanto: “Ventspils”
  • Esperanto: “Vindava”
  • Esperanto: “Windau”
  • Estonian: “Ventspils”
  • Estonian: “Vindavi”
  • Estonian: “Windaw”
  • Finnish: “Ventspils”
  • Finnish: “Windau”
  • French: “Ventspils”
  • French: “Vindava”
  • French: “Windau”
  • Galician: “Ventspils”
  • Georgian: “ვენტსპილსი”
  • German: “Ventspils”
  • German: “Vindava”
  • German: “Windau” (historical)
  • Greek: “Βέντσπιλς”
  • Gujarati: “વેન્ટસપિલ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “ונטספילס”
  • Hindi: “वेंटसपिल्स”
  • Hindi: “वेंट्सपील्स”
  • Hungarian: “Ventspils”
  • Ido: “Ventspils”
  • Inari Sami: “Ventspils”
  • Indonesian: “Ventspils”
  • Interlingue: “Ventspils”
  • Italian: “Ventspils”
  • Italian: “Vindava”
  • Italian: “Windau”
  • Japanese: “ヴィンダウ”
  • Japanese: “ヴィンダヴァ”
  • Japanese: “ヴェンツピルス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ventspils”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಂಟ್ಸ್ಪಿಲ್ಸ್,”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಂಟ್ಸ್ಪಿಲ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ventspïls”
  • Kazakh: “Вентспилс”
  • Kazakh: “ۆەنتسپىيلس”
  • Kirghiz: “Вентспилс”
  • Korean: “벤츠필스”
  • Latgalian: “Ventspiļs”
  • Latin: “Vindovia”
  • Latvian: “V-pils”
  • Latvian: “Vǟnta”
  • Latvian: “Ventspils pilsēta”
  • Latvian: “Ventspils”
  • Latvian: “Vindava”
  • Latvian: “Windau”
  • Lithuanian: “Ventpilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Ventspilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Ventspils”
  • Low German: “Ventspils”
  • Macedonian: “Вентспилс”
  • Malay: “Ventspils”
  • Marathi: “वेन्टस्पिल्स”
  • Marathi: “वेन्टस्पीलस”
  • Moksha: “Вэнтспилс”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ventspils”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ventspils”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Windau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ventspils”
  • Norwegian: “Ventspils”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ventspils”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vindava”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Windau”
  • Ossetian: “Вентспилс”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੇਂਟਸਪਿਲਸ”
  • Persian: “ونتسپیلس”
  • Polish: “Ventspils”
  • Polish: “Windawa”
  • Portuguese: “Ventspils”
  • Portuguese: “Windau”
  • Romanian: “Ventspils”
  • Russian: “Вентспилс”
  • Russian: “Виндава, город”
  • Russian: “Виндава”
  • Russian: “Виндау”
  • Samogitian: “Vėntspėlis”
  • Scots: “Ventspils”
  • Serbian: “Ventspils”
  • Serbian: “Вентспилс”
  • Serbian: “Град Вентспилс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ventspils”
  • Silesian: “Ventspils”
  • Sinhala: “වෙන්ට්පිල්ස්”
  • Sinhala: “වෙන්ට්ස්පිල්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Ventspils”
  • Slovenian: “Ventspils”
  • Slovenian: “Vindava”
  • Slovenian: “Windau”
  • Spanish: “Ventspils”
  • Spanish: “Vindava”
  • Spanish: “Windau”
  • Swedish: “Republikstad Ventspils”
  • Swedish: “Ventspils”
  • Swedish: “Windau”
  • Tamil: “வென்டஸிபிள்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “வென்ட்ஸ்ப்பிள்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Вентспилс”
  • Telugu: “వెంట్స్‌పిల్స్”
  • Thai: “เวนต์สปิลส์”
  • Thai: “แว็นตส์ปิลส์”
  • Turkish: “Ventspils”
  • Ukrainian: “Вентспілс”
  • Ukrainian: “Віндава”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ventspils”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Windau”
  • Urdu: “وینتپلس”
  • Uzbek: “Ventspils”
  • Vietnamese: “Ventspils”
  • Volapük: “Ventspils”
  • Võro: “Ventspils”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ventspils”
  • Welsh: “Ventspils”
  • Western Frisian: “Ventspils”
  • Wu Chinese: “文茨皮尔斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “雲特史比斯”
  • “Vėntspėlis”
  • “Ventspils”

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