Dorkovo
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,410 residents
- Description: village in Rakitovo municipality, Pazardzhik oblast, Bulgaria
- Postal code: 4641
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Elijah and Dorkovo Museum.
Dorkovo Museum
Dorkovo Museum in Dorkovo, Bulgaria, established in 2013 in a domed wooden structure, has a display of fossils collected from the Pliocene geological epoch of about five million years ago around the village of Dorkovo, a life-size model of a gomphothere, related to elephants, and a diorama.Paleontologichno nahodishte
Protected area
Photo: Izvora, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Paleontologichno nahodishte is a protected area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kostandovo and Rakitovo.
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 2½ km southwest of Dorkovo.
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 7 km southwest of Dorkovo.
Draginovo
Village
Photo: Martha Forsyth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Draginovo is a village, which is situated 10 km west of Dorkovo.
Dorkovo
- Categories: village of Bulgaria, kmetstvo of Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Dorkovo, Rakitovo, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.04564° or 42° 2′ 44″ northLongitude
24.12751° or 24° 7′ 39″ eastPopulation
2,410Elevation
814 metres (2,671 feet)Open location code
8GJ624WH+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 273815700OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
732019Wikidata ID
Q2014051
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Dorkovo” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Дорково”
- Bulgarian: “С.ДОРКОВО”
- Cebuano: “Dorkovo”
- Chechen: “Дорково (Болгари)”
- Chechen: “Дорково”
- Chinese: “Dorkovo”
- French: “Dorkovo”
- Kazakh: “Дорково (Пазарджик облысы)”
- Kazakh: “Дорково”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dorkovo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dorkovo”
- Persian: “دورکووو”
- Polish: “Dorkowo”
- Romanian: “Dorkovo, Pazardjik”
- Romanian: “Dorkovo”
- Russian: “Дорково”
- Swedish: “Dorkovo”
- Tatar: “Дорково (Болгария)”
- Tatar: “Дорково”
- Turkish: “Dorkovo (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Dorkovo, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Dorkovo”
- Turkish: “Dorkovoy (Bulgaristan)”
- Turkish: “Dorkovoy, Bulgaristan”
- Ukrainian: “Дорково”
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