Ķegums
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Ķegums (; ) is a town in Ogre Municipality situated mostly on the right bank of the Daugava River. Latvian law defines Ķegums town as divided between two regions, Vidzeme on the right bank of the Daugava and Semigallia on the left bank.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ķegums
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_shield
- Kegums COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Здание станции Кегумс - Ķeguma stacijas ēka.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ķegums railway station
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ogre Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date
- 1993
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Latvia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Latvia
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Roberts Ozols
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Number of city council members
- Settlement.blank_info_sec1
- 8
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Latvia
- Located in
- Ķegums Municipality
- Population
- 2065
- Area
- 4.07
- Elevation
- 46
- Body of water
- Daugava
- Capital of
- Ķegums Municipality
- Official website
- www.kegums.lv
- Image
- Ķegums church.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ķegums
- topic's main category
- Category:Ķegums
- different from
- Ķegums Municipality
- postal code
- LV-5020
- inception
- 1993-01-01
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Ķegums (; ) is a town in Ogre Municipality situated mostly on the right bank of the Daugava River. Latvian law defines Ķegums town as divided between two regions, Vidzeme on the right bank of the Daugava and Semigallia on the left bank.
==History== The construction of the town was started in 1936 as a settlement to house the workers constructing the Ķegums Hydroelectric Power Station. In 1949 Ķegums became an Urban type settlement. Ķegums was granted town status in 1993.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ķegums” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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