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Banja Luka

Banja Luka is a picturesque city in the western part of . It is the administrative capital and the largest city of , and the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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  • Type: City with 139,000 residents
  • Description: city in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Also known as: “BanjaLucka” and “Banjaluka”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska and Ferhat Pasha Mosque.

Museum
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The is an art museum in Banja Luka, , . The museum has rebranded itself in recent years as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska.

Mosque
Photo: Samirzahirovic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as the Ferhadija Mosque, is a in the city of Banja Luka and one of the greatest achievements of 's 16th century Ottoman Islamic architecture.

Castle
The is a fortress located in Banja Luka, . The fortress is medieval but is situated on the site of previous fortifications going back to Roman and even pre-Roman times.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gornji Šeher.

Quarter
Photo: David Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Srpske Toplice, before the 1990s, is a local community and a spa town in the area of Banja Luka, . It is located on the banks of the in the southern part of the city's territory.

Banja Luka

Latitude
44.7721° or 44° 46′ 20″ north
Longitude
17.1918° or 17° 11′ 30″ east
Population
139,000
Elevation
151 metres (495 feet)
IATA airport code
BNX
United Nations Location Code
BA BNX
Open location code
8FPVQ5CR+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248407024
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3204541
Wiki­data ID
Q131127
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Banja Luka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Banja Luka”
  • Afrikaans: “Banjaluka”
  • Albanian: “Banja Lluka”
  • Albanian: “Banja Luka”
  • Arabic: “بانيا لوكا”
  • Arabic: “بانيالوكا”
  • Arabic: “بنيا لوكا”
  • Arabic: “بنيالوكا”
  • Aragonese: “Banja Luka”
  • Armenian: “Բանյա Լուկա”
  • Asturian: “Banja Luka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Banya Luka”
  • Bashkir: “Баня-Лука”
  • Basque: “Banja Luka”
  • Bavarian: “Banja Luka”
  • Belarusian: “Баня Лука”
  • Belarusian: “Баня-Лука”
  • Bengali: “বাঞ্জু লুকা”
  • Bengali: “বানজা লুকা”
  • Bengali: “বানিয়া লুকা”
  • Bosnian: “Banja Luka”
  • Bosnian: “Banjaluka”
  • Bosnian: “Grad Banja Luka”
  • Bosnian: “Grad Banjaluka”
  • Bulgarian: “Баня Лука”
  • Catalan: “Banja Luka”
  • Catalan: “Banjaluka”
  • Cebuano: “Banja Luka (kapital sa entidad sa Bosnia ug Herzegovina)”
  • Cebuano: “Banja Luka”
  • Chinese: “巴尼亚卢卡”
  • Chinese: “巴尼亞盧卡”
  • Church Slavic: “Банꙗ Лоука”
  • Croatian: “Banja Luka”
  • Croatian: “Banjaluka”
  • Croatian: “Grad Banjaluka”
  • Czech: “Banja Luka”
  • Danish: “Banja Luka”
  • Danish: “Banjaluka”
  • Dutch: “Banja Luka”
  • Dutch: “Grad Banja Luka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بانيا لوكا”
  • Erzya: “Баня-Лука ош”
  • Esperanto: “Banja Luka”
  • Esperanto: “Banjaluko”
  • Estonian: “Banja Luka”
  • Finnish: “Banja Luka”
  • Finnish: “Banjaluka”
  • French: “Banja Luka”
  • French: “Banjaluka”
  • French: “BNX”
  • Galician: “Banja Luka”
  • Galician: “Бања Лука”
  • Georgian: “ბანია-ლუკა”
  • German: “Banja Luka”
  • German: “Banjaluka”
  • German: “Trapisti”
  • Greek: “Μπάνια Λούκα”
  • Gujarati: “બાન્જા લુકા”
  • Hebrew: “באניה לוקה”
  • Hebrew: “בנייה לוקה”
  • Hindi: “बांखा लूका”
  • Hindi: “बांजा लूका”
  • Hindi: “बान्या लूका”
  • Hungarian: “Banja Luka”
  • Ido: “Banja Luka”
  • Indonesian: “Banja Luka”
  • Interlingue: “Banja Luka”
  • Irish: “Banja Luka”
  • Italian: “Banja Luka”
  • Japanese: “バニャ・ルカ”
  • Japanese: “バニャルーカ”
  • Japanese: “バニャルカ”
  • Javanese: “Banja Luka”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾನ್ಜಾ ಲುಕಾ”
  • Korean: “바냐루카”
  • Latin: “Bagnaluka”
  • Latin: “Bania Luca”
  • Latin: “Banialuca”
  • Latvian: “Baņa Luka”
  • Latvian: “Baņaluka”
  • Latvian: “Banja Luka”
  • Latvian: “Banjaluka”
  • Lithuanian: “Bania Luka”
  • Lithuanian: “Banja Luka”
  • Lombard: “Banja Luka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Banja Luka”
  • Macedonian: “Бања Лука”
  • Malay: “Banja Luka”
  • Maltese: “Banja Luka”
  • Marathi: “बंजा लुका”
  • Marathi: “बान्या लुका”
  • Moksha: “Баня Лука”
  • Moksha: “Баня-Лука”
  • Northern Frisian: “Banja Luka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Banja Luka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Banja Luka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Banjaluka”
  • Norwegian: “Banja Luka”
  • Ossetian: “Баня Лукæ”
  • Ossetian: “Баня-Лукæ”
  • Ossetian: “Баня-Лука”
  • Persian: “بانه لوقه”
  • Persian: “بانیا لوکا”
  • Persian: “بانیالوکا”
  • Persian: “بنیا لوکا”
  • Persian: “بنیالوکا”
  • Polish: “Banja Luka”
  • Portuguese: “Bania Luka”
  • Portuguese: “Banja Luka”
  • Portuguese: “Banjaluka”
  • Romanian: “Banja Luka”
  • Russian: “Баня Лука”
  • Russian: “Баня-Лука”
  • Scots: “Banja Luka”
  • Serbian: “Banja Luka”
  • Serbian: “Бања Лука”
  • Serbian: “Бањалука”
  • Serbian: “Град Бања Лука”
  • Serbian: “Град Бањалука”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Banja Luka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Banjaluka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Grad Banja Luka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Бања Лука”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Град Бања Лука”
  • Silesian: “Banja Luka”
  • Sinhala: “බන්ජා ලුකා, බොස්නියාව සහ හර්සගොවිනාව”
  • Sinhala: “බන්ජා ලුකා”
  • Sinhala: “බන්ජා ලූකා”
  • Slovak: “Banja Luka”
  • Slovenian: “Banja Luka”
  • Slovenian: “Banjaluka”
  • Spanish: “Bania Luka”
  • Spanish: “Banja Luka”
  • Swedish: “Banja Luka (entitetshuvudort i Bosnien och Hercegovina)”
  • Swedish: “Banja Luka”
  • Swedish: “Banjaluka”
  • Tamil: “பஞ்சா லூக்கா”
  • Tamil: “பான்ஜா லூக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Банә-Лука”
  • Tatar: “Баня-Лука”
  • Telugu: “బంజా లూకా”
  • Thai: “บันยาลูกา”
  • Thai: “บาญาลูกา”
  • Tumbuka: “Banja Luka”
  • Turkish: “Banaluka”
  • Turkish: “Banja Luka”
  • Turkish: “Banjaluka”
  • Turkish: “Banya Luka”
  • Turkish: “Banyaluka”
  • Ukrainian: “Баня Лука”
  • Ukrainian: “Баня-Лука”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Banja Luka”
  • Urdu: “بانیا لوکا”
  • Uzbek: “Banya-luka”
  • Venetian: “Banja Luka”
  • Vietnamese: “Banja Luka”
  • Volapük: “Banja Luka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Banja Luka”
  • Welsh: “Banja Luka”
  • Western Panjabi: “بانجا لوکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “بانیا لوکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴尼亚卢卡”
  • Yakut: “Баня-Лука”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴尼亞盧卡”

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