Blagoevgrad
Blagoevgrad is the largest city in the mountainous south-western corner of Bulgaria, at the foot of the Rila mountain, close to the border with North Macedonia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 75,100 residents
- Description: city in Blagoevgrad municipality, Blagoevgrad oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Djumaja”, “Dzhumaya”, “Džuma”, “Džumaja”, “Gorna Djoumaia”, “Gorna Djumaya”, and “Gorna Dzhumaya”
- Postal code: 2700
Places of Interest
Highlights include Народно читалище ‘Никола Вапцаров’ and City Garden.
Народно читалище ‘Никола Вапцаров’
Community center
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Народно читалище ‘Никола Вапцаров’ is a community center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Izgrev and Elenovo.
Izgrev
Village
Izgrev is a village in Blagoevgrad Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is situated in the foothills of Rila mountain 1 kilometer southeast of Blagoevgrad.
Elenovo
Village
Elenovo is a village in Blagoevgrad Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is situated in the foothills of Rila mountain and a kilometer east of Blagoevgrad.
Riltsi
Village
Riltsi is a village in Blagoevgrad Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria. It is situated 3 kilometers north of Blagoevgrad, in the foothills of Rila mountain.
Blagoevgrad
- Categories: oblast seat, municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Blagoevgrad, Pirin Macedonia, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.0111° or 42° 0′ 40″ northLongitude
23.0906° or 23° 5′ 26″ eastPopulation
75,100Elevation
408 metres (1,339 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG BLNOpen location code
8GJ5236R+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 31058171OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Blagoevgrad” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Blagojevgrad”
- Arabic: “بلاغويفغراد”
- Aragonese: “Blagoevgrad”
- Armenian: “Székesfehérvár”
- Armenian: “Բլագոևգրադ”
- Azerbaijani: “Blaqoyevqrad”
- Basque: “Blagoevgrad”
- Belarusian: “Благаеўград”
- Belarusian: “Благоеўград”
- Bengali: “ব্লাগোভগ্রাড”
- Bosnian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Breton: “Blagoevgrad”
- Bulgarian: “Благоевград”
- Bulgarian: “Горна Джумая”
- Bulgarian: “Горноджумайско”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.БЛАГОЕВГРАД”
- Bulgarian: “Скаптопара”
- Catalan: “Blagòevgrad”
- Cebuano: “Blagoevgrad (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Cebuano: “Blagoevgrad”
- Central Kurdish: “بلاگۆئێڤگراد”
- Chechen: “Благоевград”
- Chinese: “布拉戈耶夫格勒”
- Church Slavic: “Благоѥвъ Градъ”
- Croatian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Czech: “Blagoevgrad”
- Czech: “Blagojevgrad”
- Danish: “Blagoevgrad”
- Dutch: “Blagoevgrad”
- Dutch: “Blagoëvgrad”
- Dutch: “Gorna Dzumaja”
- Dutch: “Gorna Džumaja”
- Esperanto: “Blagoevgrad”
- Estonian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Estonian: “Cuma-ı Bala”
- Estonian: “Gorna Džumaja”
- Finnish: “Blagoevgrad”
- Finnish: “Blagojevgrad”
- French: “Blagoevgrad”
- French: “Gorna Djoumaya”
- French: “Gorna Dumaja”
- Georgian: “ბლაგოევგრადი”
- German: “Blagoewgrad”
- German: “Blagojewgrad”
- German: “Dshuma-ı Bala”
- German: “Gorna Dshumaja”
- Greek: “Άνω Τζουμαγιά”
- Greek: “Μπλαγκοέβγκραντ”
- Greek: “Μπλαγκόεβγκραντ”
- Gujarati: “બ્લેગોવગ્રેડ”
- Hebrew: “בלגואבגרד”
- Hebrew: “גורנה ג’ומאיה”
- Hindi: “ब्लैगोएव्ग्रैड”
- Hungarian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Ido: “Blagoevgrad”
- Indonesian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Irish: “Blagoevgrad”
- Italian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Japanese: “ゴルナ・ジュマヤ”
- Japanese: “ゴルナジュマヤ”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエヴグラート”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエヴグラード”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエヴグラト”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエヴグラド”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエブグラート”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエブグラード”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエブグラト”
- Japanese: “ブラゴエブグラド”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಲಾಗೋವ್ಗರಾಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Blagoyevgrad”
- Kazakh: “Благоевград”
- Kazakh: “بلاگويەۆگراد”
- Korean: “블라고에브그라드”
- Latvian: “Blagojevgrada”
- Lithuanian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Lithuanian: “Blagojevgradas”
- Lithuanian: “Gorna Džumaja”
- Lombard: “Blagoevgrad”
- Macedonian: “Благоевград”
- Macedonian: “Горна Џумаја”
- Malay: “Blagoevgrad”
- Marathi: “ब्लेगोवग्रॅड”
- Northern Frisian: “Blagoewgrad (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Blagoewgrad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blagoevgrad”
- Norwegian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Ossetian: “Благоевград”
- Persian: “بلاگووگراد”
- Polish: “Błagoewgrad”
- Polish: “Błagojewgrad”
- Portuguese: “Blagoevgrad”
- Romanian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Russian: “Благоевград”
- Russian: “Горна Джумая”
- Russian: “Горна-Джумая”
- Scots: “Blagoevgrad”
- Serbian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Serbian: “Благоевград”
- Serbian: “Благојевград”
- Serbian: “Горња Џумаја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Blagoevgrad”
- Silesian: “Błagoewgrad”
- Sinhala: “බ්ලගොව්ග්රාඩ්”
- Slovak: “Blagoevgrad”
- Slovak: “Blagojevgrad”
- Slovenian: “Blagoevgrad”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلاگوگراد”
- Spanish: “Blagoevgrad”
- Spanish: “Blagóevgrad”
- Spanish: “Blagoevgrado”
- Swedish: “Blagoevgrad”
- Swedish: “Blagojevgrad”
- Swedish: “Cuma-i Bala”
- Swedish: “Cuma-ı Bala”
- Swedish: “Gorna Cumaya”
- Swedish: “Gorna Dzjumaja”
- Swedish: “Scaptopara”
- Swedish: “Skaptopara”
- Tamil: “ப்ளாக்கோக்ராட்”
- Tatar: “Благоевград”
- Telugu: “బ్లాగోఎవ్గ్రాడ్”
- Thai: “บลากอแอฟกรัต”
- Turkish: “Blagoevgrad”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Cuma”
- Ukrainian: “Благоєвград”
- Ukrainian: “Горна Джумая”
- Urdu: “بلاگووگراد”
- Veps: “Blagojevgrad”
- Vietnamese: “Blagoevgrad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Blagoevgrad”
- Welsh: “Blagoevgrad”
- Western Armenian: “Պլակօէւկրատ”
- Western Panjabi: “بلاگوئیوگراد”
- Wu Chinese: “布拉戈耶夫格勒”
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