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Kaliningrad, [a] known as Königsberg [b] until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland, 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon, and the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
Map of Kaliningrad Oblast Angrapa River Kaliningrad is the only Russian Baltic Sea port that is ice-free all year and hence plays an important role in the maintenance of the country's Baltic Fleet. The oblast is mainly flat, as the highest point is the 230 m (750 ft) Gora Dozor hill near the tripoint of the Poland–Russia border / Lithuania ...
Location of Kaliningrad Oblast in Europe Kaliningrad Oblast on the map of Russia. The Kaliningrad question [a] is a political question concerning the status of Kaliningrad Oblast as an exclave of Russia, [1] and its isolation from the rest of the Baltic region following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union.
A map of the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation within Europe. Every country has an id which is its ISO-3166-1-ALPHA2 code in lower case.
Usage on ceb.wikipedia.org Plantilya:Location map Russia Kaliningrad Oblast; Khrabrovo Airport; Usage on ce.wikipedia.org Калининград; Черемхово (Калининградан область) Моргуново (Гурьевскан гӀалин гуо) Дачни (Зеленоградскан кӀошт)
The Poland–Russia borders were confirmed in a Polish-Russian treaty of 1992 (ratified in 1993). [ 10 ] The Poland–Russia border is 232 km long between Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia , which is an exclave , unconnected to the rest of Russia due to the Lithuania–Russia border . [ 12 ]
In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land belonging to one country (or region etc.) that is totally surrounded by another country (or region). An exclave is a piece of land that is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically contiguous with it (connected to it) because they are completely separated by a surrounding foreign territory or territories.
After the northern half of the former German region of East Prussia was annexed to the Soviet Union as an exclave of the Russian SFSR in 1945, nearly all the old toponyms of German, Lithuanian, Polish and Old Prussian origin were changed to new Russian ones.