Orlová
Orlová is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 27,000 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the town developed rapidly thanks to coal mining, but the mining also severely damaged the town.Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Orlová and Důl Žofie.
Monument to the fallen for Těšín Silesia
Memorial
Monument to fallen for Těšín Silesia is a monument in Orlová commemorating Czech victims of the Polish–Czechoslovak War and the following plebiscite period during the Polish–Czechoslovak dispute over Cieszyn Silesia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Město and Poruba.
Poruba
Suburb
Poruba is a municipal part of Orlová in the Karviná District of Moravian-Silesian Region of Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became a part of Orlová in 1946. It has about 5,000 inhabitants.
Lutyně
Suburb
Lutyně is a municipal part of Orlová in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality, historically prior to World War II known as Polská Lutyně, and later as Horní Lutyně.
Orlová
- Categories: municipality of the Czech Republic, municipality with town privileges in the Czech Republic, municipality with authorized municipal office, Czech municipality with expanded powers, and locality
- Location: Orlová, Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.84594° or 49° 50′ 45″ north
Longitude
18.43093° or 18° 25′ 51″ east
Population
28,200
Elevation
215 metres (705 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CZ MOA
Open location code
8FXWRCWJ+99
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Vietnamese—“Orlová” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Orlová”
- Basque: “Orlová”
- Bulgarian: “Орлова”
- Catalan: “Orlová”
- Cebuano: “Orlová”
- Chinese: “Orlová”
- Chinese: “奥尔洛瓦”
- Chinese: “奧爾洛瓦”
- Czech: “Orlová”
- Danish: “Orlová”
- Dutch: “Orlau”
- Dutch: “Orlová”
- Esperanto: “Orlau”
- Esperanto: “Orlová”
- Estonian: “Orlová”
- French: “Orlau”
- French: “Orlová”
- Georgian: “ორლოვა”
- German: “Orlau”
- German: “Orlová”
- Greek: “Ορλοβά”
- Hungarian: “Orlau”
- Hungarian: “Orlová”
- Irish: “Orlová”
- Italian: “Orlau”
- Italian: “Orlová”
- Korean: “오를로바”
- Latvian: “Orlova”
- Lithuanian: “Orlova”
- Lombard: “Orlová”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Orlová”
- Malay: “Orlová”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orlová”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orlová”
- Ossetian: “Орлова (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Орлова”
- Persian: “ارلوا”
- Polish: “Orłowa”
- Portuguese: “Orlau”
- Portuguese: “Orlová”
- Romanian: “Orlau”
- Romanian: “Orlová”
- Russian: “Орлова”
- Serbian: “Орлова”
- Silesian: “Orlová”
- Silesian: “Uorłowo”
- Slovak: “Orlová”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارلوا”
- Spanish: “Orlau”
- Spanish: “Orlová”
- Swedish: “Orlová”
- Tatar: “Орлова”
- Turkish: “Orlová”
- Ukrainian: “Орлова (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Орлова”
- Vietnamese: “Orlová”
- “Orlau”
- “Orlová”
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