Viļaka
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Viļaka (, ; ; ; ; , Vilyaka; Yiddish: ויליאקי, Vilyaki) is a town in Balvi Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia. The population in 2020 was 1,223. Viļaka is located 246 km from Riga, and 8 km from border with Russia.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Viļaka
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_shield
- Viļakas pilsētas ģerbonis.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Viļaka.png
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Balvi Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date
- 1945
- 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
- Regīna Brokāne
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_density_metro_km2
- auto
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Viļaka
- Country
- Latvia
- Located in
- Balvi Municipality
- Population
- 1139
- Area
- 4.82
- Elevation
- 95
- Image
- Vilaka no Semenovas.JPG
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- postal code
- LV-4583
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Viļaka
- different from
- Viļaka Municipality
- native label
- Viļaka
- P6482
- Viļaka
- topic's main category
- Category:Viļaka
- inception
- 1945-00-00
- P8168
- Michał Stasiak
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
Viļaka (, ; ; ; ; , Vilyaka; Yiddish: ויליאקי, Vilyaki) is a town in Balvi Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia. The population in 2020 was 1,223. Viļaka is located 246 km from Riga, and 8 km from border with Russia.
It hosts the power grid interconnector between the Baltic states and Russia, which was disconnected in February 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viļaka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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