Wachau
The Wachau is in Lower Austria on the river banks of the Danube river. The area is approximately 30 kilometers long.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Krems and Melk.
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Places to explore: Weißenkirchen in der Wachau and Spitz.
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Wachau
- Type: Region
- Description: valley in Austria
- Also known as: “Dolina Wachau”, “Kulturlandschaft Wachau”, “עמק הואכאו”, and “瓦赫低地”
- Category: valley
- Location: Lower Austria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
48.3333° or 48° 20′ north
Longitude of center
15.4167° or 15° 25′ east
Elevation
398 metres (1,306 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wachau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wachau”
- Armenian: “Վախաու”
- Bavarian: “Wachau”
- Belarusian: “Вахау”
- Belarusian: “Вахаў”
- Bosnian: “Wachau”
- Bulgarian: “Вахау”
- Catalan: “Wachau”
- Chinese: “瓦豪”
- Croatian: “Wachau”
- Czech: “Wachau”
- Danish: “Wachau”
- Dutch: “Wachau”
- Esperanto: “Wachau”
- Estonian: “Wachau (Austria)”
- Estonian: “Wachau”
- Finnish: “Wachau”
- French: “Wachau”
- Galician: “Wachau”
- Georgian: “ვახაუ”
- German: “Wachau”
- Greek: “Βαχάου”
- Hebrew: “ואכאו”
- Hindi: “वाख़ाउ”
- Hungarian: “Wachau”
- Irish: “Wachau”
- Italian: “Wachau”
- Japanese: “ヴァッハウ渓谷”
- Korean: “바하우”
- Latin: “Wachau”
- Latvian: “Vahava”
- Lithuanian: “Vachau”
- Macedonian: “Вахау”
- Malay: “Wachau”
- Maltese: “Wachau”
- Mingrelian: “ვახაუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wachau”
- Norwegian: “Wachau”
- Persian: “واخائو (دره)”
- Persian: “واخائو”
- Polish: “Wachau”
- Portuguese: “Paisagem Cultural de Wachau”
- Romanian: “Wachau”
- Russian: “Вахау”
- Russian: “Долина Вахау”
- Serbian: “Vahau”
- Serbian: “Вахау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wachau”
- Slovak: “Wachau”
- Slovenian: “Wachau”
- Spanish: “Wachau”
- Swedish: “Wachau”
- Turkish: “Wachau”
- Ukrainian: “Вахау”
- Vietnamese: “Wachau”
- Yue Chinese: “華豪”
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