Gurkovo
Gurkovo is a small town in the Stara Zagora Province, south-central Bulgaria. It is situated in the Tvarditsa Valley at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,020 residents
- Description: city in Gurkovo municipality, Stara Zagora oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Dimo Makhle”, “Dimovtsi”, “Dimowzi”, “Dŭmovtsŭ Razvalina”, “General Gurkovo”, “Khainboaz”, “Khainito”, “Khainkioy”, and “Kolupchii”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nikolaevo and Zhaltopop.
Nikolaevo
Town
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nikolaevo is a small town in Stara Zagora Province, in central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Nikolaevo Municipality. It is situated in the Kazanlak Valley at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains. Nikolaevo is situated 3 km south of Gurkovo.
Zhaltopop
Village
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Zhaltopop is a village, which is situated 7 km west of Gurkovo.
Panicherevo
Village
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Panicherevo is a village in central Bulgaria. It has a population of 1,963 as of 2024. Panicherevo is situated 7 km southeast of Gurkovo.
Gurkovo
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Gurkovo, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.65771° or 42° 39′ 28″ northLongitude
25.79329° or 25° 47′ 36″ eastPopulation
3,020Elevation
375 metres (1,230 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG GUROpen location code
8GJ7MQ5V+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 273488806OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Waray—“Gurkovo” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Гурково”
- Cebuano: “Gurkovo”
- Central Kurdish: “گورکۆڤۆ”
- Chinese: “古尔科沃”
- Chinese: “古爾科沃”
- Dutch: “Goerkovo”
- Dutch: “Gurkovo”
- French: “Gourkovo”
- German: “Gurkowo”
- Hebrew: “גורקובו”
- Irish: “Gurkovo”
- Japanese: “グルコヴォ”
- Kazakh: “Gwrkovo”
- Kazakh: “Гурково”
- Kazakh: “گۋركوۆو”
- Persian: “گورکوفو”
- Polish: “Gurkowo”
- Portuguese: “Gurkovo”
- Romanian: “Gurkovo”
- Russian: “Гурково”
- Scots: “Gurkovo”
- Serbian: “Gurkovo”
- Serbian: “Гурково”
- South Azerbaijani: “گورکوو”
- Spanish: “Gurkovo”
- Swedish: “Gurkovo, Stara Zagora”
- Swedish: “Gurkovo”
- Tatar: “Гурково”
- Turkish: “Gurkovo”
- Turkish: “Yürükler”
- Ukrainian: “Гурково”
- Vietnamese: “Gurkovo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gurkovo”
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