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.
- Type: Town with 19,800 residents
- Description: city in Velingrad municipality, Pazardzhik oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Velingrad (ort i Bulgarien)”, “ГР.ВЕЛИНГРАД”, “Каменица”, “Лъджене”, “Чепино”, “ולינגרד”, “צ’פינו באניה”, “ヴェリングラート”, “ヴェリングラード”, “ヴェリングラット”, “ヴェリングラッド”, “ヴェリングラド”, “ベリングラート”, “ベリングラード”, “ベリングラット”, “ベリングラッド”, “ベリングラト”, and “ベリングラド”
- Postal code: 4600
Places of Interest
Highlights: Assumption of Mary Church and Velingrad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Draginovo and Rakitovo.
Rakitovo
Town
Velingrad
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Velingrad, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.02775° or 42° 1′ 40″ north
Longitude
23.99144° or 23° 59′ 29″ east
Population
19,800
Elevation
750 metres (2,461 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BG VLE
Open location code
8GJ52XHR+3H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Velingrad” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቬሊንግራድ”
- Arabic: “فيلينغراد”
- Armenian: “Վելինգրադ”
- Azerbaijani: “Velingrad”
- Bashkir: “Велинград”
- Belarusian: “Велінград”
- Bengali: “ভেলিনগ্রাদ”
- Bulgarian: “Велинград”
- 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”
- French: “Velingrad”
- German: “Welingrad”
- Greek: “Βέλιγκραντ”
- Greek: “Βέλινγκραντ”
- Hausa: “Velingrad”
- Hebrew: “ולינגראד”
- Hindi: “वेलिनग्राद”
- Hungarian: “Velingrad”
- Indonesian: “Velingrad”
- Irish: “Velingrad”
- Italian: “Velingrad”
- Japanese: “ヴェリングラト”
- Javanese: “Velingrad”
- Kazakh: “Velïngrad”
- Kazakh: “Велинград”
- Kazakh: “ۆەلىينگراد”
- Kirghiz: “Велинград”
- Korean: “벨린그라드”
- Lithuanian: “Velingradas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Velingrad”
- Macedonian: “Велинград”
- Malay: “Velingrad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velingrad”
- Norwegian: “Velingrad”
- Oromo: “Velingrad”
- Ossetian: “Велинград”
- Panjabi: “ਵੇਲਿਨਗ੍ਰਾਡ”
- Persian: “ولینگراد”
- Polish: “Welingrad”
- Portuguese: “Velingrad”
- Pushto: “ویلنګراد”
- Romanian: “Velingrad”
- Russian: “Велинград”
- Serbian: “Velingrad”
- Serbian: “Велинград”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velingrad”
- Slovak: “Velingrad”
- Slovenian: “Velingrad”
- Somali: “Velingrad”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولینگراد”
- Spanish: “Velingrad”
- Swahili: “Velingrad”
- Swedish: “Velingrad”
- Tajik: “Велинград”
- Tatar: “Велинград”
- Turkish: “Velingrad”
- Ukrainian: “Велинград”
- Urdu: “ویلنگراد”
- Urdu: “ویلین گراڈ”
- Uzbek: “Velingrad”
- Vietnamese: “Velingrad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Velingrad”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: кв. Лъджене and кв. Каменица.
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Highlights: пл. Николай Гяуров and Чашата.
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