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Jēkabpils

state city of Latvia in Jēkabpils Municipality, municipal center
Place state_city_of_latvia Q191120

Facts

27 properties

Identity

Instance of
state city of Latvia, city under state jurisdiction in Latvia
Inception
1670[17]
Official website
www.jekabpils.lv[18]
Native label
Jēkabpils
Official name
Jēkabpils, Якобштадт

Location

Country
Latvia[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 56.498°, 25.866°
Located in or next to body of water
Daugava[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Jēkabpils Municipality, Sēlpils parish, Friedrichstadt County, Jēkabpils County, Jēkabpils District[3]

Population and size

Area
23.4 (21.9–26.7, n=7)
Elevation above sea level
+77
Population
21k (3.6k–31k, n=43)[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]

Codes

Local dialing code
652[16]
Postal code
5201–5206[14]
More facts +13
Capital of
Jēkabpils County, Зельбурзьке обер-гауптманство, Jēkabpils District, Jēkabpils Municipality
Described by source
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary
Flag
Jēkabpils karogs[8]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Latvia/Jekabpils
Head of government
Leonīds Salcevičs
List of monuments
Cultural heritage monuments in Jēkabpils
Member of
Union of the Baltic Cities[2]
Named after
Jacob Kettler, castle[6][7]
Nominal GDP
+288652000
Nominal GDP per capita
+13421
Said to be the same as
Jēkabpils[15]
Time of earliest written record
1670
Twinned administrative body
Melle, Sokołów Podlaski, Maardu, Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Lida[9][10][11][12][13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Jakobstadt en Jēkabpils State City en Jēkabpils ar يكابيلس da Jekabpils el Γιέκαμππιλς es Jakobstadt es Jekabpilis fa یکابپیلس fi Jekabpils fr Jekabpilis fr Jakobstadt he יאקובשטאדט he יאקובשטאט he יעקבשטאט he יעקבשטט he יעקובשטאט he יעקובשטדט he יעקובשטט he יקאבפילס
🔖 Identifiers · 31
ISNI
000000040395407X
VIAF cluster ID
131418137
Library of Congress authority ID
n85207774
GND ID
4256308-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Jēkabpils pilsētas laukums.JPG ↗
ATVK ID
0110000, 0031010
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4796
FAST ID
1233900
FactGrid item ID
future generation
Freebase ID
/m/01c64s
GNS Unique Feature ID
-3209027
GeoNames ID
459283
Show all 31 identifiers +19
HASC
LV.JB
ISO 3166-2 code
LV-JKB
Image Archive, Herder Institute
Jēkabpils
Latvian National Address Register ID
100003237
Latvian toponymic names database ID
50105
MusicBrainz area ID
d6e57b65-e993-4e93-b64e-a101798f57cc
NE.se ID
jekabpils
NL CR AUT ID
ge129441
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007560053605171
National Library of Latvia ID
000041215
National Library of Lithuania ID
LNB:Qui;=B/
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3917557
OpenStreetMap relation ID
13048681
Quora topic ID
Jēkabpils
Ringgold ID
186995
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1203338
Topic's main category
Category:Jēkabpils
Who's on First ID
85685889
Yale LUX ID
place/f0f185c0-583c-4c29-9c5e-0394b82648bb

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🔗 Connections
People born here 14
Andris Džeriņš, Deniss Rakels, Aivars Lembergs, Andrejs Piedels, Artūrs Dārznieks, Paul Olberg, Sandis Ģirģens, Ivars Zariņš +6 more
Contained subdivisions 5
Krustpils, Krustpils, Jēkabpils Air Base, Krustpils Castle, honorary citizen of Jēkabpils, Latvia
Twinned administrative body 5
Maardu, Lida, Melle, Sokołów Podlaski, Czerwionka-Leszczyny
← Twinned administrative body 5
Maardu, Lida, Melle, Sokołów Podlaski, Czerwionka-Leszczyny
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Jēkabpils Municipality, Jēkabpils District, Friedrichstadt County
Located in time zone 3
UTC+03:00, UTC+02:00, Eastern European Time
← Capital 3
Jēkabpils Municipality, Jēkabpils District, Jēkabpils Municipality
Capital of 2
Jēkabpils Municipality, Jēkabpils District
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
Named after 2
castle, Jacob Kettler
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Jēkabpils, Category:Births in Jēkabpils
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Jēkabpils
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Jēkabpils
Country 1
Latvia
FactGrid item ID 1
future generation
Followed by (predecessor) 1
Jēkabpils Municipality
Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
Jēkabpils
Located in or next to body of water 1
Daugava
Located in this place 1
Battle of Jakobstadt
Member of 1
Union of the Baltic Cities
Topic's main category 1
Category:Jēkabpils
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Jēkabpils
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Jēkabpils Municipality
← Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
Jēkabpils
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Summary

Jēkabpils is a state city of Latvia[1].

Related Entities

Czerwionka-Leszczyny Latvia

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  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [2] ↑ . ubc.net. Retrieved . ubc.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . data.stat.gov.lv. Retrieved . data.stat.gov.lv. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] ↑ . Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  27. [28] ↑ . pop-stat.mashke.org. pop-stat.mashke.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . pop-stat.mashke.org. pop-stat.mashke.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . pop-stat.mashke.org. pop-stat.mashke.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . pop-stat.mashke.org. pop-stat.mashke.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . pop-stat.mashke.org. pop-stat.mashke.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
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  2. 20w ago · Liinisx · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+21418'}, {'amount': '+22750'}, {'amount': '+22412'} +40
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+25.442086'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+26'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+21.91'} +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-rank:1||1 */ Population: 21,014"
  3. 22w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-06-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID → geografico/1203338
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID: geografico/1203338"
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