Zemgale
Semigallia is one of the Historical Latvian Lands located to the south of the Daugava and to the north of the Saule region of Samogitia. The territory is split between Latvia and Lithuania, previously inhabited by the Semigallian Baltic tribe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Jelgava and Jekabpils.
Jelgava
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Jelgava is a state city in central Latvia. It is located about 41 kilometres southwest of Riga. It is the largest town in the Semigallia region of Latvia.
Jekabpils
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Jēkabpils is a Latvian town located on the Daugava river, roughly halfway between the cities of Riga and Daugavpils.
Bauska
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Bauska is a town in Zemgale, 66 km from Riga and 20 km from the Lithuanian border, at the confluence of the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers where they form the Lielupe river.
Zemgale
- Type: State with 370,000 residents
- Description: Historical and cultural region of Latvia
- Also known as: “Semigalia” and “Semigallia”
- Categories: region and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
56.6075° or 56° 36′ 27″ northLongitude of center
24.897° or 24° 53′ 49″ eastPopulation
370,000Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1629678548GeoNames ID
7639660Wikidata ID
Q215389
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Zemgale” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Semgale”
- Aragonese: “Zemgalia”
- Armenian: “Զեմգալե”
- Azerbaijani: “Zemqale”
- Basque: “Semigalia”
- Belarusian: “Земгале”
- Belarusian: “Земгалія”
- Belarusian: “Зэмгалія”
- Belarusian: “Зэмгалэ”
- Belarusian: “Семігалія”
- Belarusian: “Сэмігалія”
- Bulgarian: “Земгале”
- Catalan: “Semigalia”
- Catalan: “Zemgale”
- Chinese: “瑟米加利亞”
- Czech: “Zemgalsko”
- Danish: “Semgallen”
- Danish: “Zemgale”
- Dutch: “Semgalle”
- Dutch: “Semgallen”
- Dutch: “Zemgale”
- Esperanto: “Zemgale”
- Esperanto: “Zemgalio”
- Esperanto: “Zemgaloj”
- Estonian: “Zemgale”
- Finnish: “Semgallen”
- Finnish: “Semgallia”
- Finnish: “Semigallia”
- Finnish: “Zemgale”
- French: “Sémigalie”
- French: “Sémigalle”
- French: “Zemgale”
- Galician: “Semigalia”
- Galician: “Zemgale”
- Georgian: “ზემგალე”
- German: “Semgallen”
- German: “Zemgale”
- Greek: “Σεμιγαλλία”
- Hebrew: “זמגאלה”
- Hungarian: “Zemgale”
- Igbo: “Zemgale”
- Indonesian: “Semigallia”
- Italian: “Provincia di Semgallia”
- Italian: “Semgallia”
- Italian: “Semigallia”
- Italian: “Zemgale”
- Japanese: “セミガリア”
- Japanese: “ゼムガレ”
- Japanese: “ゼムガレン”
- Japanese: “ゼムガレ人”
- Korean: “세미갈리아”
- Korean: “젬갈레”
- Korean: “젬갈렌”
- Latgalian: “Zemgola”
- Latin: “Semigallia”
- Latvian: “Zemgale”
- Latvian: “Zemgalieši”
- Lithuanian: “Žemgala”
- Lithuanian: “Žiemgala”
- Macedonian: “Семигалија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zemgale”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Semgallen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zemgale”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Žiemgala”
- Norwegian: “Zemgale”
- Ossetian: “Земгале”
- Persian: “منطقه زمگاله”
- Polish: “Semigalia”
- Polish: “Zemgalia”
- Portuguese: “Semigália”
- Portuguese: “Semigola”
- Portuguese: “Zemgale”
- Russian: “Земгале”
- Russian: “Земгалия”
- Samogitian: “Zemgale”
- Samogitian: “Žemgalė”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zemgalija”
- Spanish: “Semigalia”
- Spanish: “Ziemgala”
- Spanish: “Žiemgala”
- Swedish: “Semgallen”
- Swedish: “Zemgale”
- Swedish: “Zemgallen”
- Turkish: “Zemgale”
- Ukrainian: “Земгале”
- Ukrainian: “Земгалія”
- Ukrainian: “Семигалія”
- Venetian: “Semgàlia”
- “Žemgalė”
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