Smolyan
Smolyan Province is a province in Southern-central Bulgaria, located in the Rhodope Mountains, neighbouring Greece to the south. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre — the city of Smolyan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: oblast of Bulgaria with 92,100 residents
- Description: oblast of Bulgaria
- Also known as: “BG424”, “Smolyan oblast”, “Smolyan Oblast”, “Smolyan province”, “Smolyan Province”, and “Smolyanski Okrŭg”
- Neighbors: Pirin Macedonia
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snezhanka and Snezhanka Tower.
Snezhanka Tower
Tower
Photo: Nikolai Karaneschev, CC BY 3.0.
Snezhanka Tower is a 156-metre-high television tower built of reinforced concrete with an observation deck near Pamporovo, Bulgaria. Snezhanka Tower is situated on Snezhanka Peak, at 1,928 metres above sea level.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pamporovo and Smolyan.
Pamporovo
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pamporovo is a ski and mountain resort in the Western Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria, not far from Smolyan. Established in the 1930s, it's one of the most famous ski resorts in the country and hosts international winter sports competitions.
Smolyan
Smolyan is a town in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. It occupies the narrow gorge of the Cherna River in the East Rhodope Mountains, and has 34 000 residents.
Stoikite
Village
Photo: Izvora, Public domain.
Stoikite is a village, which is situated 4½ km north of Smolyan.
Smolyan
- Location: Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Smolyan” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca Smoljan”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة سموليان”
- Armenian: “Սմոլյանի մարզ”
- Bashkir: “Смолян”
- Basque: “Smolian probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Смалянская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Смолянская вобласьць”
- Bengali: “স্মলিয়ান প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Oblast Smoljan”
- Bulgarian: “Област Смолян”
- Bulgarian: “Областна администрация - Смолян”
- Bulgarian: “Смолян (област)”
- Bulgarian: “Смолян”
- Bulgarian: “Смолянска област”
- Catalan: “província de Smolian”
- Catalan: “Província de Smolian”
- Catalan: “Província de Smolyan”
- Cebuano: “Oblast Smolyan”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای سمۆلیان”
- Chechen: “Смолянан область”
- Chinese: “Smolyan Chiu”
- Chinese: “斯莫梁州”
- Chuvash: “Смолян облаçĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Smolân vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Oblast Smoljan”
- Czech: “Smoljanská oblast”
- Danish: “Smoljan (provins)”
- Danish: “Smoljan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Wılayetê Smolyan”
- Dutch: “Smoljan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة سموليان”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Smoljan”
- Estonian: “Smoljani piirkond”
- Finnish: “Smoljanin alue”
- French: “Oblast de Smolyan”
- French: “Smolyan”
- Georgian: “სმოლიანი (ოლქი)”
- Georgian: “სმოლიანის ოლქი”
- German: “BG-21”
- German: “Oblast Smoljan”
- German: “Smoljan”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Σμόλιαν”
- Greek: “Σμόλιαν”
- Gujarati: “સ્મોલ્યન પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “מחוז סמוליאן”
- Hebrew: “סמוליאן”
- Hindi: “समोलियाँ प्रांत”
- Hindi: “स्मोल्यन प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Szmoljan megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi smolyan”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Smolyan”
- Irish: “Cúige Smolyan”
- Italian: “distretto di Smoljan”
- Italian: “Distretto di Smoljan”
- Italian: “Smoljan (regione)”
- Italian: “Smolyan (regione)”
- Japanese: “スモリャン州”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಮೋಲಿಯನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “스몰랸주”
- Latin: “Smolenopolis (provincia)”
- Latin: “Smolenopolis”
- Latin: “Smolenopolitania”
- Latin: “Smolyan (provincia)”
- Latvian: “Smoļanas apgabals”
- Latvian: “Smoļanas province”
- Latvian: “Smoljanas province”
- Lithuanian: “Smoliano sritis”
- Lombard: “Distret de Smoljan”
- Macedonian: “Смољан”
- Macedonian: “Смољанска област”
- Malay: “Smolyan Province”
- Marathi: “स्मोल्यां प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Smolyan Chiu”
- Mongolian: “Смолян аймаг”
- Northern Frisian: “Smoljan”
- Northern Luri: “اسمولیان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Smoljan oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Smoljan”
- Norwegian: “Smoljan oblast”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Esmolian”
- Ossetian: “Смоляны облæст”
- Persian: “استان اسمولیان”
- Polish: “Obwód Smolan”
- Portuguese: “Smolyan (distrito)”
- Portuguese: “Smolyan (província)”
- Portuguese: “Smolyan”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Smolean”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Smolian”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Smolyan”
- Romanian: “Smolean”
- Russian: “Смолянская область”
- Scots: “Smolyan Province”
- Serbian: “Област Смолјан”
- Serbian: “Област Смољан”
- Serbian: “Смолјанска област”
- Serbian: “Смољанска област”
- Sinhala: “එස්මොල්යාන් පළාත”
- Sinhala: “ස්මොල්යාන් පළාත, බල්ගේරියාව”
- Slovak: “Smoľan”
- Slovenian: “oblast Smoljan”
- Slovenian: “Oblast Smoljan”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسمولیان اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Smolyan”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Smolyan”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Smolyan”
- Spanish: “Provincia de smolyan”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Smolyan”
- Swedish: “Smoljan (region)”
- Swedish: “Smoljan”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Смолян”
- Tamil: “ஸ்மோல்யன் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “స్మోల్యాన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “స్మోల్యాన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดสโมเลียน”
- Turkish: “Ahi Çelebi”
- Turkish: “Paşmaklı ili, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Paşmaklı ili”
- Turkish: “Smolyan ili”
- Turkish: “Smolyan”
- Ukrainian: “Смолянська область”
- Urdu: “سمولیان صوبہ”
- Vietnamese: “Smolyan (tỉnh)”
- Vietnamese: “Smolyan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Smoljan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Smolyan”
- Welsh: “Talaith Smolyan”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ سمولیان”
- Wu Chinese: “斯莫梁州”
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