Orlek
Orlek is a village in the Municipality of Sežana in the Littoral region of Slovenia on the border with Italy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abisso di Trebiciano and Sežana railway station.
Sežana railway station
Railway station
Photo: Klockarnils, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sežana railway station serves the town and municipality of Sežana, in the Littoral region of Slovenia.
Karst Living Museum
Museum
The Karst Living Museum is a nature trail in Slovenia. Part of the Karst Plateau, the museum is an ecologically-important area with many karst features. It was recognized as Slovenia's best thematic trail in 2017, and the region is a Natura 2000 site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gropada and Sežana.
Gropada
Village
Photo: Tiesse, Public domain.
Gropada is a village, which is situated 2½ km south of Orlek.
Sežana
Photo: Jošt Gantar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sežana is a city and municipality in the Coast and Karst region of Slovenia. It has a population of 5,700 people in 2016. Sežana is the capital of the subregion Kras-Brkini and the headquarter of the Administrative Unit.
Lipica
Lipica is a village in the Coast and Karst region of Slovenia. It is famous for the pure white Lipizzaner horses that have been bred in the area for 400 years.
Orlek
- Type: Village with 165 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement, cultural heritage site in Slovenia, and locality
- Location: Municipality of Sežana, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.68968° or 45° 41′ 23″ northLongitude
13.84399° or 13° 50′ 38″ eastPopulation
165Elevation
354 metres (1,161 feet)Open location code
8FQMMRQV+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1110136390OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3194000Wikidata ID
Q554927
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Orlek” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Orlek”
- Cebuano: “Orlek”
- Chechen: “Орлек”
- Croatian: “Orlek”
- Dutch: “Orlek”
- French: “Orlek”
- Irish: “Orlek”
- Italian: “Orle”
- Italian: “Orlek”
- Macedonian: “Орлек”
- Polish: “Orlek”
- Romanian: “Orlek”
- Russian: “Орлек”
- Serbian: “Орлек”
- Slovenian: “Orlek”
- Tatar: “Орлек”
- Ukrainian: “Орлек”
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