Velika Polana
Velika Polana is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Velika Polana. It has been designated a "stork village". It was also the home of the Slovene writer Miško Kranjec.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Joško Horvat, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Village with 851 residents
- Description: town in Velika Polana municipality, Slovenia
- Also known as: “Palina”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saints Peter and Paul Parish Church and Holy Cross Parish Church.
Saints Peter and Paul Parish Church
Church
Photo: Lanfra, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saints Peter and Paul Parish Church is situated 3 km southeast of Velika Polana.
Holy Cross Parish Church
Church
Photo: lanfra, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holy Cross Parish Church is situated 3½ km west of Velika Polana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mala Polana and Brezovica.
Mala Polana
Village
Photo: Lanfra, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mala Polana is a village northeast of Velika Polana in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia. Črnec Creek, a tributary of the Ledava, flows past the settlement.
Brezovica
Village
Brezovica is a village north of Velika Polana in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia.
Žižki
Village
Photo: Lanfra, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Žižki is a village in the Municipality of Črenšovci in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. There is a small chapel-shrine in the settlement dedicated to Saint Florian. It was built in 1936 in a Neo-Gothic style. Žižki is situated 2½ km west of Velika Polana.
Velika Polana
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Municipality of Velika Polana, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.57375° or 46° 34′ 26″ northLongitude
16.34058° or 16° 20′ 26″ eastPopulation
851Elevation
165 metres (541 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI VLPOpen location code
8FRRH8FR+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1390576739OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Velika Polana” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Velika Polana”
- Bosnian: “Velika Polana”
- Cebuano: “Velika Polana”
- Chechen: “Велика Полана”
- Chinese: “大波拉納”
- Chinese: “大波拉纳”
- Croatian: “Velika Polana”
- Dutch: “Velika Polana”
- Esperanto: “Velika Polana”
- French: “Velika Polana”
- German: “Teufelsloch”
- German: “Velika Polana”
- Hebrew: “וליקה פולאנה”
- Hebrew: “וליקה פולנה”
- Hungarian: “Nagypalina”
- Irish: “Velika Polana”
- Italian: “Velika Polana”
- Macedonian: “Велика Полана”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Velika Polana”
- Polish: “Velika Polana”
- Romanian: “Velika Polana”
- Russian: “Велика Поляна”
- Russian: “Велика-Полана”
- Serbian: “Velika Polana”
- Serbian: “Велика Полана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velika Polana”
- Slovenian: “Velika Polana”
- Slovenian: “Velka Polana”
- Slovenian: “Völka Polana”
- Tatar: “Велика Полана”
- Thai: “เวลิกาโปลานา”
- Ukrainian: “Велика Полана”
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