Balchik
Balchik is a town and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the Southern Dobruja area of northeastern Bulgaria. It is in Dobrich Province, 35 km southeast of Dobrich and 42 km northeast of Varna.
Photo: Pamporoff, Public domain.- Type: Town with 12,700 residents
- Description: city in Balchik municipality, Dobrich oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Balchiq”, “Baljik”, “Baltchik”, “Dionysopolis”, “Karvouna”, “Krounoi”, “Балчік”, “ГР.БАЛЧИК”, “באלצ’יק”, “بَلْجِق”, and “アルベナ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Balchik Palace ‘Quiet Nest’ and University Botanic Garden in Balchik.
Balchik
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, seaside resort, and locality
- Location: Balchik, Dobrich, Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
43.4049° or 43° 24′ 18″ north
Longitude
28.1681° or 28° 10′ 5″ east
Population
12,700
Elevation
191 metres (627 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BG BAL
Open location code
8GMCC539+X6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Balchik” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلجق”
- Belarusian: “Балчык”
- Bulgarian: “Балчик”
- Catalan: “Baltxik”
- Cebuano: “Balchik”
- Central Kurdish: “بالچیک”
- Chinese: “巴尔奇克”
- Chinese: “巴爾奇克”
- Crimean Tatar: “Balçık”
- Czech: “Balčik”
- Dutch: “Baltsjik”
- Esperanto: “Balĉik”
- Finnish: “Baltšik”
- French: “Baltchik”
- Galician: “Balchik”
- German: “Baltschik”
- Greek: “Μπαλτσίκ”
- Greek: “Μπάλτσικ”
- Hebrew: “בלצ’יק”
- Hungarian: “Balcsik”
- Irish: “Balchik”
- Italian: “Balčik”
- Japanese: “バルチク”
- Kazakh: “Balçïk”
- Kazakh: “Балчик”
- Kazakh: “بالتشىيك”
- Korean: “발치크”
- Latvian: “Balčiks”
- Lithuanian: “Balčikas”
- Lombard: “Balčik”
- Macedonian: “Балчик”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baltsjik”
- Norwegian: “Baltsjik”
- Ossetian: “Балчик”
- Persian: “بالچیک”
- Polish: “Bałczik”
- Portuguese: “Balčik”
- Romanian: “Balcic”
- Russian: “Балчик”
- Serbian: “Balčik”
- Serbian: “Балчик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balčik”
- Slovak: “Balčik”
- Slovenian: “Balčik”
- South Azerbaijani: “بالچیک”
- Spanish: “Balchik”
- Swedish: “Baltjik”
- Tatar: “Балчык”
- Turkish: “Balçık, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Balçık”
- Turkmen: “Balçik”
- Ukrainian: “Балчик”
- Upper Sorbian: “Balčik”
- Urdu: “بالچک”
- Vietnamese: “Balchik”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balchik”
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