Ankaran
Ankaran is a town in the Municipality of Ankaran, located near the border with Italy, in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is less than 5 km from the Italian town of Muggia near Trieste, about 2.5 km from the Italian-Slovenian border, 6.5 km from Koper, and 33 km from the nearest Croatian town, Buje.
Photo: Mrwho00tm, Public domain.- Type: Village with 3,200 residents
- Description: human settlement in Slovenia
- Also known as: “Ancarano” and “Ankaran / Ancarano”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salt marsh and Valdoltra Orthopedic Hospital.
Salt marsh
A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal marsh, is a tidal wetland in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and sea that is regularly flooded by tides of seawater or brackish water.
Valdoltra Orthopedic Hospital
Hospital
The Valdoltra Orthopedic Hospital is one of Slovenia's most important treatment facilities. It is located in Ankaran on the coast of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Slovenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barizoni and Kolomban.
Barizoni
Hamlet
Kolomban
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ankaran
- Categories: human settlement, border city, and locality
- Location: Municipality of Ankaran, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.57896° or 45° 34′ 44″ north
Longitude
13.7365° or 13° 44′ 11″ east
Population
3,200
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SI AKN
Open location code
8FQMHPHP+HH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ankaran” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ankaran”
- Amharic: “አንካራን”
- Arabic: “أنكاران”
- Aragonese: “Ankaran”
- Arpitan: “Ankaran”
- Asturian: “Ankaran”
- Azerbaijani: “Ankaran”
- Bambara: “Ankaran”
- Basque: “Ankaran”
- Bavarian: “Ankaran”
- Belarusian: “Анкаран”
- Bengali: “আনকারান”
- Bosnian: “Ankaran”
- Breton: “Ankaran”
- Bulgarian: “Анкаран”
- Cajun French: “Ankaran”
- Catalan: “Ankaran”
- Cebuano: “Ankaran”
- Chinese: “安卡蘭”
- Corsican: “Ankaran”
- Croatian: “Ankaran”
- Czech: “Ankaran”
- Danish: “Ankaran”
- Dutch: “Ankaran”
- Esperanto: “Ankaran”
- Estonian: “Ankaran”
- Finnish: “Ankaran”
- French: “Ankaran”
- Friulian: “Ankaran”
- Galician: “Ankaran”
- German: “Ankaran”
- Hausa: “Ankaran”
- Hebrew: “אנקרן”
- Hindi: “अंकारान”
- Hungarian: “Ankaran”
- Ido: “Ankaran”
- Indonesian: “Ankaran”
- Interlingua: “Ankaran”
- Interlingue: “Ankaran”
- Irish: “Ankaran”
- Italian: “Ancarano”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Ankaran”
- Japanese: “アンカラン”
- Javanese: “Ankaran”
- Kabyle: “Ankaran”
- Kazakh: “Анкаран”
- Kirghiz: “Анкаран”
- Kongo: “Ankaran”
- Korean: “안카란”
- Latin: “Ancaria”
- Latvian: “Ankaran”
- Ligurian: “Ankaran”
- Limburgan: “Ankaran”
- Lithuanian: “Ankaran”
- Lombard: “Ancaran (Slovenia)”
- Lombard: “Ancaran”
- Low German: “Ankaran”
- Luxembourgish: “Ankaran”
- Macedonian: “Анкаран”
- Mainfränkisch: “Ankaran”
- Malagasy: “Ankaran”
- Malay: “Ankaran”
- Minangkabau: “Ankaran”
- Narom: “Ankaran”
- Neapolitan: “Ankaran”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ankaran”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ankaran”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ankaran”
- Oromo: “Ankaran”
- Panjabi: “ਅੰਕਾਰਾਨ”
- Papiamento: “Ankaran”
- Persian: “انکاران”
- Picard: “Ankaran”
- Piemontese: “Ankaran”
- Polish: “Ankaran”
- Portuguese: “Ankaran”
- Prussian: “Ankaran”
- Pushto: “انکاران”
- Romagnol: “Ankaran”
- Romanian: “Ankaran”
- Romansh: “Ankaran”
- Russian: “Анкаран”
- Sardinian: “Ankaran”
- Scots: “Ankaran”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ankaran”
- Serbian: “Ankaran”
- Serbian: “Анкаран”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ankaran”
- Sicilian: “Ankaran”
- Slovak: “Ankaran”
- Slovenian: “Ankaran”
- Somali: “Ankaran”
- Spanish: “Ankaran”
- Swahili: “Ankaran”
- Swedish: “Ankaran”
- Swiss German: “Ankaran”
- Tajik: “Анкаран”
- Tatar: “Анкаран”
- Thai: “อังการาน”
- Thai: “อังคาราน”
- Turkish: “Ankaran”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ankaran”
- Urdu: “انکاران”
- Uzbek: “Ankaran”
- Venetian: “Ancarano”
- Venetian: “Ankaran”
- Vietnamese: “Ankaran”
- Vlaams: “Ankaran”
- Volapük: “Ankaran”
- Walloon: “Ankaran”
- Welsh: “Ankaran”
- Wolof: “Ankaran”
- Zulu: “Ankaran”
- “Ancarano”
- “Ankaran”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sveta Katarina pri Ankaranu / Santa Caterina d’Ancarano and Kolombini / Colombini.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pošta Ankaran / Posta Ancarano and TIC Ankaran.
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