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”, and “Baltchik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balchik Palace ‘Quiet Nest’ and University Botanic Garden in Balchik.
Balchik Palace ‘Quiet Nest’
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)
United Nations Location Code
BG BAL
Open location code
8GMCC539+X6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Urdu: “بالچک”
- Vietnamese: “Balchik”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balchik”
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