Aggtelek Karst

Aggtelek Karst is a karst area in northern Hungary. The area is especially well known for its abundance of caves, which were recorded together with those in neighboring in 1995 to the list of World Heritage Site under the name of the Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst.
Wikipedia
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  • Mountain range rising to 449 metres (1,473 feet)
  • Description: cave
  • Also known as
    “Aggteleki Hegység”
    “Aggteleki Karsztos Hegység”
    “Gömör-Tornai Karsztos Hegység”
    “Jihoslovenský Kras”
    “Slovenský Kras”
    “Tornai-karszt”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Szőlősardó and Varbóc.

Village
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is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern .

Village
Photo: Ato 01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern .

Village
Photo: Dencey, Public domain.
is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern .

Aggtelek Karst

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Latitude
48.45425° or 48° 27′ 15″ north
Longitude
20.635° or 20° 38′ 6″ east
Open location code
8GW2FJ3P+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 279660398
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­mountain_range
Geo­Names ID
723008
Wiki­data ID
Q516600

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Aggtelek Karst” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أجتيليك كارست”
  • Cebuano: “Aggteleki-karszt”
  • Czech: “Aggtelecký kras”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اجتيليك كارست”
  • Estonian: “Aggteleki karst”
  • Hungarian: “Aggteleki-karszt”
  • Polish: “Kras Węgierski”
  • Romanian: “Aggteleki-karszt”
  • Serbian: “Крашки регион Агтелек”
  • Slovak: “Aggtelecký kras”
  • Slovak: “Aggteleki-karszt”
  • Swedish: “Aggteleki-karszt”

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