Velingrad
Velingrad is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, located at the western end of Chepino Valley, part of the Rhodope Mountains. It is the administrative center of the homonymous Velingrad Municipality and one of the most popular Bulgarian balneological resorts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Klearchos Kapoutsis, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Klearchos Kapoutsis, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 25,300 residents
- Description: city in Velingrad municipality, Pazardzhik oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Welingrad”
- Postal code: 4600
Places of Interest
Highlights include Assumption of Mary Church and Velingrad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Draginovo and Rakitovo.
Draginovo
Village
Photo: Martha Forsyth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Draginovo is a village, which is situated 4½ km north of Velingrad.
Rakitovo
Town
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rakitovo is a town in the Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria. As of 2005 the population was 8,952. It is located in the northern part of the Rhodopi mountains at 12 km to the east of Velingrad and 7 km to the southwest of the Batak Reservoir. Rakitovo is situated 9 km southeast of Velingrad.
Kostandovo
Town
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kostandovo is a small town in the Pazardzhik Province, southern Bulgaria. In 2010, it had 4342 inhabitants. It gained its town status in 2005. It is located in the Rhodope Mountains close to the Batak Dam and the town of Rakitovo. Kostandovo is situated 9 km east of Velingrad.
Velingrad
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Velingrad, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.02836° or 42° 1′ 42″ northLongitude
23.99444° or 23° 59′ 40″ eastPopulation
25,300Elevation
750 metres (2,461 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG VLEOpen location code
8GJ52XHV+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 266013327OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Velingrad” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վելինգրադ”
- Bashkir: “Велинград”
- Belarusian: “Велінград”
- Bulgarian: “Велинград”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.ВЕЛИНГРАД”
- Bulgarian: “Каменица”
- Bulgarian: “Лъджене”
- Bulgarian: “Чепино”
- Cebuano: “Velingrad”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤێلینگراد”
- Chinese: “韋林格勒”
- Chinese: “韦林格勒”
- Church Slavic: “Вєлинъ Градъ”
- Croatian: “Velingrad”
- Czech: “Velingrad”
- Danish: “Velingrad”
- Dutch: “Velingrad”
- Esperanto: “Velingrad”
- Finnish: “Velingrad”
- Finnish: “Welingrad”
- French: “Velingrad”
- German: “Velingrad”
- German: “Welingrad”
- Greek: “Βέλιγκραντ”
- Greek: “Βέλινγκραντ”
- Hebrew: “ולינגראד”
- Hebrew: “ולינגרד”
- Hebrew: “צ’פינו באניה”
- Hungarian: “Velingrad”
- Irish: “Velingrad”
- Italian: “Velingrad”
- Japanese: “ヴェリングラート”
- Japanese: “ヴェリングラード”
- Japanese: “ヴェリングラット”
- Japanese: “ヴェリングラッド”
- Japanese: “ヴェリングラト”
- Japanese: “ヴェリングラド”
- Japanese: “ベリングラート”
- Japanese: “ベリングラード”
- Japanese: “ベリングラット”
- Japanese: “ベリングラッド”
- Japanese: “ベリングラト”
- Japanese: “ベリングラド”
- Kazakh: “Velïngrad”
- Kazakh: “Велинград”
- Kazakh: “ۆەلىينگراد”
- Korean: “벨린그라드”
- Lithuanian: “Velingradas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Velingrad”
- Macedonian: “Велинград”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velingrad”
- Norwegian: “Velingrad”
- Ossetian: “Велинград”
- Persian: “ولینگراد”
- Polish: “Welingrad”
- Portuguese: “Velingrad”
- Romanian: “Velingrad”
- Russian: “Велинград”
- Serbian: “Velingrad”
- Serbian: “Велинград”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velingrad”
- Slovak: “Velingrad”
- Slovenian: “Velingrad”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولینگراد”
- Spanish: “Velingrad”
- Swedish: “Velingrad (ort i Bulgarien)”
- Swedish: “Velingrad”
- Swedish: “Welingrad”
- Tatar: “Велинград”
- Turkish: “Velingrad”
- Ukrainian: “Велинград”
- Ukrainian: “Велінград”
- Vietnamese: “Velingrad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Velingrad”
- “Velingrad”
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