Rila
Rila is the highest mountain range of Bulgaria, the Balkan Peninsula, and of Southeast Europe. It is situated in southwestern Bulgaria and forms part of the Rila–Rhodope Massif.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,324 metres
- Description: mountain range in Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Rila mountain range”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Musala and Basic Environmental Observatory - Musala.
Musala
Peak
Photo: Preslav, Public domain.
Musala; from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish: from Musalla, "near God" or "place for prayer" is the highest peak in the Rila Mountains, as well as in Bulgaria and the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2,925.42 metres.
Basic Environmental Observatory - Musala
Monitoring station
Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Basic Environmental Observatory - Musala is a monitoring station.
Malka Musala
Peak
Malka Musala is a summit in the eastern part of the Rila Mountain in southwestern Bulgaria. With an altitude of 2,902 m, it is the second highest peak in Rila after Musala, fourth in Bulgaria behind Vihren and Kutelo in the Pirin Mountain, and seventh in the Balkan Peninsula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borovets.
Borovets
Borovets is a ski and mountain resort in Central Western Bulgaria, on the slopes of the Rila mountain range close to the town of Samokov. It's one of Bulgaria's most popular ski resorts and one of the starting points for hiking to Musala, the highest peak in Rila, Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula.
Rila
- Category: landform
- Location: Sofia Province, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.18° or 42° 10′ 48″ northLongitude
23.58535° or 23° 35′ 7″ eastElevation
2,324 metres (7,625 feet)Open location code
8GJ55HJP+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 8391832700OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Rila” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال ريلا”
- Armenian: “Ռիլա”
- Asturian: “Montes Rila”
- Basque: “Rila”
- Belarusian: “Рыла”
- Bulgarian: “Главен балкански вододел”
- Bulgarian: “Рила планина”
- Bulgarian: “Рила”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes de Rila”
- Catalan: “Rila”
- Cebuano: “Rila”
- Chinese: “里拉山脉”
- Chinese: “里拉山脈”
- Church Slavic: “Рила”
- Croatian: “Rila”
- Czech: “Rila”
- Danish: “Rila”
- Dutch: “Rila-gebergte”
- Dutch: “Rila”
- Dutch: “Rilagebergte”
- Esperanto: “montaro Rila”
- Esperanto: “Rila-montaro”
- Esperanto: “Rila”
- Estonian: “Rila mäed”
- Estonian: “Rila”
- French: “Rila”
- Georgian: “რილა”
- German: “Rila-Gebirge”
- German: “Rila”
- German: “Rilagebirge”
- Greek: “όρη Ρίλα”
- Greek: “Ρίλα”
- Hebrew: “הרי רילה”
- Hebrew: “רילה”
- Hindi: “रीला”
- Hungarian: “Rila-hegység”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Rila”
- Italian: “Montagne di Rila”
- Italian: “Rila”
- Japanese: “リラ山地”
- Japanese: “リラ山脈”
- Kazakh: “Rïla”
- Kazakh: “Рила”
- Kazakh: “رىيلا”
- Kirghiz: “Рила”
- Korean: “릴라산맥”
- Ladin: “Rila”
- Latvian: “Rila”
- Lithuanian: “Rila”
- Lithuanian: “Rilos kalnai”
- Macedonian: “Рила”
- Malayalam: “റില, ബൾഗേറിയ”
- Malayalam: “റില”
- Northern Frisian: “Rila”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rila”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rilafjellene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rila”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rilafjella”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Рила”
- Norwegian: “Rila”
- Persian: “ریلا”
- Polish: “Riła”
- Portuguese: “Montanhas Rila”
- Portuguese: “Montes Rila”
- Portuguese: “Parque Nacional Rila”
- Portuguese: “Rila”
- Romanian: “Munţii Rila”
- Romanian: “Munții Rila”
- Romanian: “Rila”
- Russian: “Рил”
- Russian: “Рила-Планина”
- Russian: “Рила”
- Russian: “Рило-даг”
- Russian: “Рило-Даг”
- Russian: “Рило”
- Russian: “Рильские горы”
- Russian: “Рыло-Даг”
- Scots: “Rila”
- Serbian: “Rila”
- Serbian: “Рила”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rila”
- Slovak: “Rila”
- Slovenian: “Rila”
- Spanish: “Macizo de Rila”
- Spanish: “Montanas Rila”
- Spanish: “Montañas Rila”
- Spanish: “Montes Rila”
- Spanish: “Parque Nacional Rila”
- Swahili: “Rila”
- Swedish: “Rila Planina”
- Swedish: “Rila”
- Swedish: “Rilabergen”
- Swiss German: “Rila”
- Tajik: “Kūhhoi Rila”
- Tajik: “Кӯҳҳои Рила”
- Thai: “ริลา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Rila”
- Turkish: “Rila Dağı”
- Turkish: “Rila”
- Ukrainian: “Рила”
- Ukrainian: “Ріла”
- Venetian: “Rila”
- Vietnamese: “Rila”
- Western Armenian: “Ռիլա (լեռնաշղթայ)”
- Western Armenian: “Ռիլա”
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