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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Boby Dimitrov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Pamporoff, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 12,700 residents
- Description: city in Balchik municipality, Dobrich oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Balchiq”, “Baljik”, and “Baltchik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balchik Palace ‘Quiet Nest’ and Balchik Airfield.
Balchik Palace ‘Quiet Nest’
Photo: Andrei Stroe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Balchik Palace is a palace in Balchik, a town and sea side resort located in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria. The official name of the palace was the Quiet Nest Palace.
Balchik Airfield
Aerodrome
Balchik Airport is a general aviation airfield and reduced former military airbase in the town of Balchik, northeast Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast. In August 2011 the Bulgarian government transformed Balchik airbase from a military to a civilian airport and it became part of the assets of the state-owned company Sofia Airport EAD.
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″ northLongitude
28.1681° or 28° 10′ 5″ eastPopulation
12,700Elevation
191 metres (627 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG BALOpen location code
8GMCC539+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 273488705OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Balchik” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلجق”
- Arabic: “بَلْجِق”
- Belarusian: “Балчык”
- Bulgarian: “Балчик”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.БАЛЧИК”
- Catalan: “Baltxik”
- Cebuano: “Balchik”
- Central Kurdish: “بالچیک”
- Chinese: “巴尔奇克”
- Chinese: “巴爾奇克”
- Crimean Tatar: “Balçık”
- Czech: “Balčik”
- Dutch: “Balchik”
- Dutch: “Baltsjik”
- Esperanto: “Balĉik”
- Esperanto: “Balčik”
- Finnish: “Balchik”
- Finnish: “Baltšik”
- French: “Baltchik”
- French: “Dionysopolis”
- French: “Karvouna”
- French: “Krounoi”
- Galician: “Balchik”
- German: “Balchik”
- German: “Baltschik”
- Greek: “Μπαλτσίκ”
- Greek: “Μπάλτσικ”
- Hebrew: “באלצ’יק”
- Hebrew: “בלצ’יק”
- Hungarian: “Balcsik”
- Irish: “Balchik”
- Italian: “Balchik”
- Italian: “Balčik”
- Japanese: “アルベナ”
- Japanese: “バルチク”
- Kazakh: “Balçïk”
- Kazakh: “Балчик”
- Kazakh: “بالتشىيك”
- Korean: “발치크”
- Latvian: “Balčik”
- Latvian: “Balčiks”
- Lithuanian: “Balčik”
- Lithuanian: “Balčikas”
- Lombard: “Balčik”
- Macedonian: “Балчик”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balchik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baltsjik”
- Norwegian: “Baltsjik”
- Ossetian: “Балчик”
- Persian: “بالچیک”
- Polish: “Bałczik”
- Portuguese: “Balchik”
- Portuguese: “Balčik”
- Romanian: “Balcic”
- Romanian: “Dionysopolis”
- Russian: “Балчик”
- Serbian: “Balčik”
- Serbian: “Балчик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balčik”
- Slovak: “Balčik”
- Slovenian: “Balčik”
- South Azerbaijani: “بالچیک”
- Spanish: “Balchik”
- Swedish: “Balchik”
- Swedish: “Baltjik”
- Tatar: “Балчык”
- Turkish: “Balçık, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Balçık”
- Turkmen: “Balçik”
- Ukrainian: “Балчик”
- Ukrainian: “Балчік”
- Upper Sorbian: “Balčik”
- Vietnamese: “Balchik”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balchik”
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