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Vrhnika

Vrhnika

Vrhnika is a town in . It is the seat of the Municipality of Vrhnika. It is located on the , 21 km from along the A1 motorway.
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  • Type: Town with 8,200 residents
  • Description: city in Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Ober-Laibach”
  • Postal code: 1360

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ivan Cankar memorial house and Kunstle Villa.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a museum.

Photo: János Korom Dr., CC BY-SA 2.0.

Building
Photo: Yerpo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mirke and Verd.

Village
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is a small settlement immediately south of Vrhnika in the region of .

Village
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is a settlement south of Vrhnika in the region of . The Viaduct on the A1 motorway from to runs above the settlement.

Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
is a north of Vrhnika in the region of . It includes the hamlets of Kuren, Podčelo, and Razor.

Vrhnika

Latitude
45.96634° or 45° 57′ 59″ north
Longitude
14.29807° or 14° 17′ 53″ east
Population
8,200
Elevation
297 metres (974 feet)
Open location code
8FQPX78X+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 57102712
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3187214
Wiki­data ID
Q438
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Wu Chinese—“Vrhnika” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ναύπορτος”
  • Arabic: “فورنيكا”
  • Asturian: “Vrhnika”
  • Basque: “Vrhnika”
  • Belarusian: “Врхніка”
  • Bosnian: “Vrhnika”
  • Bulgarian: “Връхника”
  • Catalan: “Vrhnika”
  • Cebuano: “Vrhnika (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Vrhnika”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤرینیکا”
  • Chechen: “Врхника”
  • Chinese: “弗尔赫尼卡”
  • Chinese: “弗爾赫尼卡”
  • Croatian: “Vrhnika”
  • Czech: “Vrhnika”
  • Danish: “Vrhnika”
  • Dutch: “Vrhnika”
  • Finnish: “Vrhnika”
  • French: “Vrhnika”
  • Georgian: “ვრჰნიკა”
  • German: “Oberlaibach”
  • German: “Vrhnika”
  • Greek: “Βρχνίκα”
  • Hebrew: “ורחניקה”
  • Hungarian: “Vrhnika”
  • Indonesian: “Vrhnika”
  • Italian: “Nauporto”
  • Italian: “Vrhnika”
  • Japanese: “ブルフニカ”
  • Korean: “브르흐니카”
  • Latin: “Nauportus”
  • Lombard: “Vrhnika”
  • Macedonian: “Врхника”
  • Moksha: “Врхника”
  • Nepali: “भ्रह्निका”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vrhnika”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vrhnika”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vrhnika”
  • Persian: “ورخنیکا”
  • Polish: “Vrhnika”
  • Portuguese: “Vrhnika”
  • Romanian: “Vrhnika”
  • Russian: “Врхника”
  • Scots: “Vrhnika”
  • Serbian: “Врхника”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vrhnika”
  • Slovak: “Vrhnika”
  • Slovenian: “Vrhnika”
  • Spanish: “Vrhnika”
  • Swedish: “Vrhnika”
  • Tamil: “வெர்னிகா”
  • Tatar: “Врхника”
  • Thai: “เวิร์คนิกา”
  • Ukrainian: “Врхника”
  • Vietnamese: “Vrhnika”
  • Wu Chinese: “弗尔赫尼卡”

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