Miren
Miren is an urbanized settlement in the Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica in the Littoral region of Slovenia right next to the border with Italy. The hill known as Miren Castle rises above the settlement to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Žiga, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sinkhole and Miren Cemetery.
Sinkhole
Meadow
Photo: Hendrik Dacquin, CC BY 2.0.
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet. Sinkhole is situated 3 km south of Miren.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orehovlje and Miren border crossing.
Orehovlje
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Orehovlje is a settlement next to Miren in the Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica in the Littoral region of Slovenia. The local church is dedicated to Saint Augustine and belongs to the Parish of Miren.
Vrtoče
Hamlet
Vrtoče is a dispersed settlement south of Bilje in the Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica in the Littoral region of Slovenia.
Miren
- Type: Village with 1,490 residents
- Description: town in western Slovenia
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.89434° or 45° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
13.60892° or 13° 36′ 32″ eastPopulation
1,490Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI LZKOpen location code
8FQMVJV5+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 60952966OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Miren” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Miren”
- Cebuano: “Miren”
- Chechen: “Мирен”
- Chinese: “米倫”
- Croatian: “Miren”
- Dutch: “Miren”
- French: “Miren”
- German: “Miren”
- German: “Schmitt”
- Irish: “Miren”
- Italian: “Merna”
- Macedonian: “Мирен”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Miren”
- Polish: “Miren”
- Romanian: “Miren”
- Russian: “Мирен”
- Serbian: “Мирен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Miren”
- Slovenian: “Miren pri Gorici”
- Slovenian: “Miren”
- Tatar: “Мирен”
- Thai: “มีเริน”
- Ukrainian: “Мирен”
- Ukrainian: “Мірен”
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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 “Miren”. Photo: Žiga, Public domain.