Kazdanga (German: Katzdangen[1]) is a larger village,[a] the administrative center of the Kazdanga Parish of South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia.
[2] It is located in the northern part of the parish on the banks of the Alokste [lv] river, which is dammed within the extents of the village to form an artificial reservoir known as the Kazdanga Mill Lake (Kazdangas dzirnavezers)[3] by which there is a water mill.
The modern settlement grew around the Kazdanga manor (burned down during the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Currently the Kazdanga Palace, an architectural monument of national importance, is the place of interest in the village.
The adjacent village of Valāta [lv] forms a common settlement conglomerate with Kazdanga.