Žilina Region
Žilina District
Žilina

Žilina

Žilina is a town in with a population of 80,000 and the capital city of the Žilina self-administrative region. The city itself offers a nice historic centre, which is unique in thanks to the arcades on the main square, and a vibrant cultural scene.
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  • Type: City with 81,500 residents
  • Description: capital of the Žilina region in north-western Slovakia
  • Also known as: “Silein”, “Sillein”, “Solna”, “Zilina”, “Zsolna”, and “Żylina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Budatín Castle and Žilina railway station.

Castle
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a castle in north-western , near the city of Žilina, where the river flows into the river.

Railway station
Photo: Guillaume Speurt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the city and municipality of Žilina, seat of the , northern . Opened in 1871, the station is an important railway junction between the Bratislava–Žilina railway and the Košice–Žilina railway, both of which form part of Slovakia's main east–west rail corridor.

Church
Photo: Helix84, CC BY 2.5.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, since February 2008 Holy Trinity Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Žilina, . It is one of the town's most significant monuments. Together with the Burian's Tower it creates the typical skyline of the town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Teplička nad Váhom and Hôrky.

Village
Photo: Juloml, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a and municipality in in the of northern .

Village
is a and municipality in in the of northern .

Suburb
Photo: Gower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Žilina

Latitude
49.2235° or 49° 13′ 25″ north
Longitude
18.7393° or 18° 44′ 22″ east
Population
81,500
Elevation
347 metres (1,138 feet)
IATA airport code
ILZ
United Nations Location Code
SK ILZ
Open location code
8FXW6PFQ+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26037035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3056508
Wiki­data ID
Q25797
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Žilina” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Žilina”
  • Arabic: “جيلينا”
  • Arabic: “زيلينا”
  • Aragonese: “Žilina”
  • Armenian: “Ժիլինա”
  • Asturian: “Zilina”
  • Asturian: “Žilina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Jilina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Jilinа”
  • Azerbaijani: “Žilina”
  • Bashkir: “Žilina”
  • Bashkir: “Жилина”
  • Basque: “Žilina”
  • Belarusian: “Žilina”
  • Belarusian: “Жыліна”
  • Bengali: “জিলিনা”
  • Breton: “Žilina”
  • Bulgarian: “Žilina”
  • Bulgarian: “Жилина”
  • Catalan: “Žilina”
  • Cebuano: “Žilina”
  • Chechen: “Žilina”
  • Chechen: “Жилина”
  • Chinese: “Žilina”
  • Chinese: “日利納”
  • Chinese: “日利纳”
  • Chinese: “濟利納”
  • Church Slavic: “Žilina”
  • Church Slavic: “Жилина”
  • Chuvash: “Žilina”
  • Chuvash: “Жилина”
  • Croatian: “Žilina”
  • Czech: “Silein”
  • Czech: “Sillein”
  • Czech: “Žilina”
  • Danish: “Zilina”
  • Danish: “Žilina”
  • Dutch: “Zilina”
  • Dutch: “Žilina”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيلينا”
  • Esperanto: “Ĵilina”
  • Esperanto: “Zilina”
  • Esperanto: “Žilina”
  • Estonian: “Žilina”
  • Finnish: “Zhilina”
  • Finnish: “Zilina”
  • Finnish: “Žilina”
  • French: “Zilina”
  • French: “Žilina”
  • Galician: “Žilina”
  • Georgian: “ჟილინა”
  • German: “Silein”
  • German: “Sillein”
  • German: “Zilina”
  • German: “Žilina”
  • German: “Zsolna”
  • German: “Żylina”
  • Greek: “Žilina”
  • Greek: “Ζίλινα”
  • Gujarati: “ઝીલિના”
  • Hebrew: “ז’ילינה”
  • Hebrew: “ז’לינה”
  • Hebrew: “זילינה”
  • Hindi: “जिलीना”
  • Hungarian: “Zilina”
  • Hungarian: “Žilina”
  • Hungarian: “Zsolna”
  • Ido: “Žilina”
  • Indonesian: “Zilina”
  • Indonesian: “Žilina”
  • Irish: “Žilina”
  • Italian: “Zilina”
  • Italian: “Žilina”
  • Japanese: “ジリナ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಲಿನ”
  • Korean: “질리나”
  • Latin: “Solna”
  • Latin: “Zsolna”
  • Latvian: “Žilina”
  • Limburgan: “Žilina”
  • Lithuanian: “Žilina”
  • Lombard: “Žilina”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Žilina”
  • Macedonian: “Žilina”
  • Macedonian: “Жилина”
  • Malay: “Zilina”
  • Malay: “Žilina”
  • Marathi: “झीलिना”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Žilina”
  • Moksha: “Žilina”
  • Moksha: “Жилина”
  • Northern Frisian: “Silina”
  • Northern Frisian: “Žilina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sillein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zilina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Žilina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zsolna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Żylina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sillein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zilina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Žilina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zsolna”
  • Norwegian: “Žilina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Žilina”
  • Ossetian: “Žilina”
  • Ossetian: “Жилинæ”
  • Ossetian: “Жилина”
  • Persian: “ژیلینا”
  • Polish: “Žilina”
  • Polish: “Żylina”
  • Portuguese: “Zilina”
  • Portuguese: “Žilina”
  • Pushto: “جیلینا”
  • Romanian: “Zilina”
  • Romanian: “Žilina”
  • Russian: “Žilina”
  • Russian: “Жилина”
  • Scots: “Žilina”
  • Serbian: “Žilina”
  • Serbian: “Жилина”
  • Serbian: “Жиљина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Žilina”
  • Silesian: “Žilina”
  • Sinhala: “සිලිනා”
  • Slovak: “Žilina”
  • Slovenian: “Žilina”
  • Spanish: “Zilina”
  • Spanish: “Žilina”
  • Swedish: “Sillein”
  • Swedish: “Zilina”
  • Swedish: “Žilina”
  • Swedish: “Zsolna”
  • Swedish: “Zylina”
  • Tamil: “ஜிலீனா”
  • Tatar: “Żylina”
  • Tatar: “Жилина”
  • Telugu: “జిలీనా”
  • Thai: “ฌิลินา”
  • Turkish: “Zilina”
  • Turkish: “Žilina”
  • Ukrainian: “Жиліна”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Žilina”
  • Urdu: “ژیلینا”
  • Uzbek: “Zilina”
  • Uzbek: “Žilina”
  • Vietnamese: “Zilina”
  • Vietnamese: “Žilina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Žilina”
  • Welsh: “Žilina”
  • Western Panjabi: “زیلینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “日利纳”
  • Yue Chinese: “日利納”
  • “Zilina”
  • “Žilina”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Žilina”. Photo: Sebastian Mierzwa, CC BY-SA 4.0.