Rakitovo
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,590 residents
- Description: city in Rakitovo municipality, Pazardzhik oblast, Bulgaria
- Postal code: 4640
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kostandovo and Dorkovo.
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 4 km northeast of Rakitovo.
Dorkovo
Village
Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dorkovo is a village in the Rakitovo municipality, Pazardzhik Province, western Bulgaria. The population of the village is 2,955. Aromanians live in the village. Dorkovo is situated 7 km northeast of Rakitovo.
Velingrad
Town
Photo: Klearchos Kapoutsis, CC BY 2.0.
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. Velingrad is situated 9 km northwest of Rakitovo.
Rakitovo
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Rakitovo, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.99119° or 41° 59′ 28″ northLongitude
24.08765° or 24° 5′ 16″ eastPopulation
8,590Elevation
815 metres (2,674 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG JAKOpen location code
8GH6X3RQ+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 270687419OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Waray—“Rakitovo” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “ГР.РАКИТОВО”
- Bulgarian: “Ракитово”
- Cebuano: “Rakitovo”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕاکیتۆڤۆ”
- Chinese: “拉基托沃”
- Czech: “Rakitovo”
- Dutch: “Rakitovo”
- Esperanto: “Rakitovo”
- French: “Rakitovo”
- German: “Rakitowo”
- Greek: “Ρακίτοβο”
- Hebrew: “רקיטובו”
- Irish: “Rakitovo”
- Japanese: “コスタンドヴォ”
- Japanese: “ラキトヴォ”
- Kazakh: “Rakïtovo”
- Kazakh: “Ракитово”
- Kazakh: “راكىيتوۆو”
- Macedonian: “Ракитово”
- Persian: “راکیتووو”
- Polish: “Rakitowo”
- Portuguese: “Rakitovo”
- Romanian: “Rakitovo”
- Russian: “Ракитово”
- Serbian: “Rakitovo”
- Serbian: “Ракитово”
- Slovak: “Rakitovo”
- South Azerbaijani: “راکیتوو”
- Spanish: “Rakitovo”
- Swedish: “Rakitovo”
- Tatar: “Ракитово”
- Turkish: “Rakitova”
- Ukrainian: “Ракитово”
- Ukrainian: “Ракітово”
- Vietnamese: “Rakitovo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rakitovo”
- “Ракитово”
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