Solkan
Solkan is a settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in the Gorizia region of western Slovenia, at the border with Italy. Although it forms a single urban area with the city of Nova Gorica today, it has maintained the status of a separate urban settlement due to its history and the strong local identity of its residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Solkan Bridge and Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica.
Solkan Bridge
Bridge
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The Solkan Bridge is a 219.7-meter arch bridge over the Soča River near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia. With an arch span of 85 meters, it is the world's longest stone arch railroad bridge.
Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica
Town hall
The Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica is a municipality in the traditional region of the Slovene Littoral in western Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica became a municipality in 1994. It borders Italy.
Solkan railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Ajznponar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Solkan railway station is a railway stop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kromberk and Soča Valley.
Kromberk
Village
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Kromberk is a settlement in the Municipality of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia. Together with its two satellite settlements of Ajševica and Loke, it forms one of the four major suburbs of Nova Gorica.
Soča Valley
Photo: Malenki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Soča or Isonzo is a 138-kilometre long river that flows through western Slovenia and northeastern Italy. An Alpine river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia, at an elevation of 876 metres.
Oslavia
Village
Photo: T137, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oslavia is a village, which is situated 2½ km west of Solkan.
Solkan
- Type: Village with 3,400 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement, border city, and locality
- Location: Nova Gorica, Coast and Karst, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.97151° or 45° 58′ 17″ northLongitude
13.64703° or 13° 38′ 49″ eastPopulation
3,400Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)United Nations Location Code
SI S47Open location code
8FQMXJCW+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 13444886585OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Welsh—“Solkan” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Solkan”
- Cebuano: “Solkan”
- Chechen: “Солкан”
- Croatian: “Solkan”
- Dutch: “Solkan”
- Esperanto: “Solkan”
- French: “Solkan”
- German: “Solkan”
- German: “Sollingen”
- Hungarian: “Solkan”
- Indonesian: “Solkan”
- Irish: “Solkan”
- Italian: “Salcano”
- Italian: “Solkan”
- Macedonian: “Солкан”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Solkan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Solkan”
- Norwegian: “Solkan”
- Persian: “سولکان”
- Polish: “Solkan”
- Romanian: “Solkan”
- Serbian: “Солкан”
- Slovenian: “Solkan”
- Spanish: “Solkan”
- Swedish: “Solkan”
- Tatar: “Солкан”
- Ukrainian: “Солкан”
- Welsh: “Solkan”
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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 “Solkan”. Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.