Rakek
Rakek is a settlement in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. Rakek has about 1,380 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rakek train station and Zelške jame.
Zelške jame
Cave
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Zelške jame is a cave, which is situated 2½ km southwest of Rakek.
Weaver Cave
Cave
Photo: Malenki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Weaver Cave —also known as Vaulted Cave, Škocjan Cave, and Inlet Cave —is a 2,885 metres long ponor cave in southwest Slovenia. It runs from the west side of the Rak Škocjan Valley, where it has two entrances, and continues into Planina Cave. Weaver Cave is situated 3½ km southwest of Rakek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Slivice and Zelše.
Slivice
Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Slivice is a settlement west of Rakek in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Zelše
Village
Photo: Žiga, Public domain.
Zelše is a village along the road linking Cerknica and Postojna, at the northwestern part of the karst Cerknica Polje in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Unec
Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Unec is a settlement northwest of Rakek in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
Rakek
- Type: Village with 1,380 residents
- Description: place in Inner Carniola, Slovenia
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Municipality of Cerknica, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.8131° or 45° 48′ 47″ northLongitude
14.31921° or 14° 19′ 9″ eastPopulation
1,380Elevation
526 metres (1,726 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI RKKOpen location code
8FQPR879+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 87279639OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Rakek” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Rakek”
- Bulgarian: “Ракек”
- Cebuano: “Rakek”
- Chechen: “Ракек”
- Croatian: “Rakek”
- Dutch: “Rakek”
- French: “Rakek”
- German: “Fulm”
- German: “Rakek”
- Irish: “Rakek”
- Italian: “Racche”
- Italian: “Radura”
- Italian: “Rakek”
- Italian: “Recchio”
- Macedonian: “Ракек”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rakek”
- Polish: “Rakek”
- Romanian: “Rakek”
- Russian: “Ракек”
- Serbian: “Ракек”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rakek”
- Slovenian: “Rakek pri Uncu”
- Slovenian: “Rakek”
- Spanish: “Rakek”
- Tatar: “Ракек”
- Ukrainian: “Ракек”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rakek”. Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.