Peter, City on the Neva, Window to Europe, North Palmyra ... This city has many different names. Where is St. Petersburg located? How is he interesting? And what are the geographical coordinates of St. Petersburg? All these questions will be answered by our article.
Geographical location and coordinates of St. Petersburg
The city is located in the northern part of Europe. In relation to Russia, it is located in the northwestern part of the country and is the administrative center of the Leningrad Region. St. Petersburg was founded in 1703. For more than two centuries, it was the capital of the Russian Empire (from 1712 to 1918).
St. Petersburg is located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland and occupies lands adjacent to the mouth of the Neva River. Absolute elevations vary from 0 meters on the coast to 25-30 meters in the northern areas of the city.
The city on the Neva is the second most populated in Russia and the most northern of the million-plus cities on the planet. The famous "white nights", attracting a huge number of tourists every year, are a direct consequence of the geographical location of the city, just six degrees from the Arctic Circle. From about mid-May to the end of July, the sun sets only slightly (at those same 6 degrees) here, turning the night into twilight and painting the sky in romantic milky-white tones.
What are the exact coordinates of St. Petersburg? This information is presented in the table below.
Saint Petersburg: coordinates (latitude and longitude)City of St. Petersburg | In degrees, minutes and seconds | In decimal degrees |
Latitude | 59 ° 57 ′ 00 ″ North | 59.939095 ° |
Longitude | 30 ° 19 ′ East | 30.315868 ° |
St. Petersburg: 12 interesting facts
We have collected for you twelve of the most interesting and unexpected facts about North Palmyra:
- In St. Petersburg is the deepest metro station in the world.
- In the same city is the largest Orthodox Cathedral in Russia.
- Within the city there are at least a hundred islands.
- The total number of bridges in St. Petersburg exceeds eight hundred.
- The city is one of the ten most noisy cities in the world.
- The largest museum of malachite (its mass is 1.5 tons) is stored in the Mountain Museum of the city.
- The slang word "gopnik" was born in this city.
- For the construction of St. Petersburg, the leading architects of Europe were invited at one time.
- Initially, many houses in St. Petersburg did not have numbers, and the streets did not have names.
- In the first half of the 19th century, smoking was strictly forbidden on city streets.
- To examine absolutely all exhibits of the Hermitage, you will have to "wind" about 20 kilometers.
- A tenth of the urban area is covered with water. In this regard, Peter is often called the "Northern Venice".
Finally
59 ° 57 ′ north latitude and 30 ° 19 ′ east longitude - these are the coordinates of St. Petersburg. The city is located in the northwestern part of Russia with direct access to the Baltic Sea. Due to the extremely favorable transport and geographical location, St. Petersburg for quite a long time and successfully performed the functions of the capital of the Russian state.