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Bratislava Region

Bratislava

Bratislava, is the capital and largest city of . It has a population of more than 475,000, and is the administrative, cultural and economic centre of the country.
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  • Type: City with 433,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Slovakia
  • Also known as: “Pozsony”, “Presburg”, “Pressburg”, and “Preszburg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bratislava Castle and Slovak National Gallery.

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is the main castle of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The massive rectangular building with four corner towers stands on an isolated rocky hill of the , directly above the river, in the middle of Bratislava.

Museum
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The is a network of galleries in . It has its headquarters in Bratislava. The gallery was established by law on 29 July 1949.

Bridge
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, commonly referred to as Most Slovenského národného povstania or the UFO Bridge, and named Nový most from 1993 to 2012, is a road bridge over the in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and Nové Mesto.

Suburb
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The of Bratislava is the historic center and one of the boroughs of Bratislava, in the of . It is coextensive with the smallest Slovak administrative district by area, Bratislava I.

Suburb
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is a borough of Bratislava, in the Bratislava III district. It is located north and north-east of the . The borough also borders Rača, , , and boroughs.

Suburb
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is a borough of Bratislava, the capital of , located in the Bratislava II district. It is the city's second most populated borough, housing over 80,000 inhabitants and its Nivy neighbourhood is the place of the emerging new city center of Bratislava.

Bratislava

Latitude
48.1517° or 48° 9′ 6″ north
Longitude
17.1093° or 17° 6′ 34″ east
Population
433,000
Elevation
157 metres (515 feet)
IATA airport code
BTS
United Nations Location Code
SK BTS
Open location code
8FWV5425+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 530544342
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3060972
Wiki­data ID
Q1780
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bratislava” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bratislava”
  • Adyghe: “Братиславэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Bratislava”
  • Albanian: “Bratislava”
  • Albanian: “Bratisllava”
  • Amharic: “ብራቲስላቫ”
  • Arabic: “براتيسلافا”
  • Aragonese: “Bratislava”
  • Armenian: “Բրատիսլավա”
  • Arpitan: “Bratislava”
  • Asturian: “Bratislava”
  • Avaric: “Братислава”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bratislava”
  • Balinese: “Bratislava”
  • Bashkir: “Братислава”
  • Basque: “Bratislava”
  • Bavarian: “Bratislava”
  • Bavarian: “Pressburg”
  • Belarusian: “Браціслава”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাটিস্লাভা”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাতিস্লাভা”
  • Betawi: “Bratislava”
  • Betawi: “Bratislawah”
  • Bosnian: “Bratislava”
  • Breton: “Bratislava”
  • Bulgarian: “Братислава”
  • Catalan: “Bratislava”
  • Cebuano: “Bratislava”
  • Central Bikol: “Bratislava”
  • Central Kurdish: “براتسیلاڤا”
  • Chechen: “Братислава”
  • Chinese: “Bratislava”
  • Chinese: “布拉提斯拉瓦”
  • Chinese: “布拉迪斯拉发”
  • Chinese: “布拉迪斯拉發”
  • Church Slavic: “Братислава”
  • Chuvash: “Братислава”
  • Cornish: “Bratislava”
  • Corsican: “Bratislava”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bratislava”
  • Croatian: “Bratislava”
  • Czech: “Bratislava”
  • Czech: “Pozsony”
  • Czech: “Prešpurk”
  • Czech: “Pressburg”
  • Danish: “Bratislava”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bratislava”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bratislawa”
  • Dutch: “Bratislava”
  • Dutch: “Pressburg”
  • Eastern Mari: “Братислава”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “براتيسلافا”
  • Erzya: “Братислава ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bratislava”
  • Esperanto: “Bratislavo”
  • Estonian: “Bratislava”
  • Ewe: “Bratislava”
  • Extremaduran: “Bratislava”
  • Faroese: “Bratislava”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bratislava”
  • Finnish: “Bratislava”
  • French: “Bratislava”
  • French: “Posonie”
  • French: “Presbourg”
  • Gagauz: “Bratislava”
  • Galician: “Bratislava”
  • Georgian: “ბრატისლავა”
  • German: “Bratislava”
  • German: “Preßburg”
  • German: “Pressburg” (historical)
  • Greek: “Μπρατισλάβα”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રાટિસ્લાવા”
  • Haitian: “Bratislava”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bratislava”
  • Hausa: “Bratislava”
  • Hebrew: “בראטיסלבה”
  • Hebrew: “ברטיסלאבה”
  • Hebrew: “ברטיסלבה”
  • Hebrew: “פרסבורג”
  • Hebrew: “פרשבורג”
  • Hindi: “ब्रातिस्लावा”
  • Hungarian: “Bratislava”
  • Hungarian: “Bratysława”
  • Hungarian: “Pojon”
  • Hungarian: “Pozsony”
  • Hungarian: “Požun”
  • Hungarian: “Presbourg”
  • Hungarian: “Prešporek”
  • Hungarian: “Prešporok”
  • Hungarian: “Pressburg”
  • Hungarian: “Wilsonovo mesto”
  • Icelandic: “Bratislava”
  • Ido: “Bratislava”
  • Inari Sami: “Bratislava”
  • Indonesian: “Bratislava”
  • Interlingua: “Bratislava”
  • Interlingue: “Bratislava”
  • Irish: “an Bhratasláiv”
  • Irish: “An Bhratasláiv”
  • Italian: “Bratislava”
  • Japanese: “ブラチスラヴァ”
  • Japanese: “ブラチスラバ”
  • Japanese: “ブラティスラヴァ”
  • Japanese: “ブラティスラバ”
  • Japanese: “プレスブルク”
  • Japanese: “プレスブルグ”
  • Japanese: “ポジョニ”
  • Japanese: “ポジョニュ”
  • Javanese: “Bratislava”
  • Kabyle: “Bratislava”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಟಿಸ್ಲಾವಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bratislava”
  • Kashubian: “Bratislava”
  • Kashubian: “Bratisława”
  • Kazakh: “Bratislava”
  • Kazakh: “Братислава”
  • Kazakh: “Пре́шпорек”
  • Kazakh: “Прешпорок”
  • Kirghiz: “Bratislava”
  • Kirghiz: “Братислава”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Братислава”
  • Komi: “Братислава”
  • Korean: “브라티슬라바”
  • Kotava: “Bratislava”
  • Kurdish: “Bratîslava”
  • Ladino: “Bratislava”
  • Latin: “Bratislavia”
  • Latin: “Pisonium”
  • Latin: “Posonium”
  • Latvian: “Bratislava”
  • Lezghian: “Братислава”
  • Ligurian: “Bratislava”
  • Limburgan: “Bratislava”
  • Lingala: “Bratislava”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bratislava”
  • Lithuanian: “Bratislava”
  • Livvi: “Bratisluavu”
  • Lojban: “bratislavas”
  • Lombard: “Bratislava”
  • Low German: “Bratislava”
  • Low German: “Preßburg”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bratislava”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bratislava”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bratislava”
  • Macedonian: “Братислава”
  • Malagasy: “Bratislava”
  • Malay: “Bratislava”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രാട്ടിസ്‌ലാവ”
  • Maltese: “Bratislava”
  • Manx: “Bratislava”
  • Manx: “Poszony”
  • Manx: “Presburg”
  • Manx: “Pressburg”
  • Manx: “Preßburg”
  • Maori: “Bratislava”
  • Marathi: “ब्रातिस्लाव्हा”
  • Mazanderani: “براتیسلاوا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bratislava”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bratislava”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bu̍t-la-tī-su-la-bâ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “勿拉治斯拉峇”
  • Minangkabau: “Bratislava”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრატისლავა”
  • Moksha: “Братислава”
  • Mongolian: “Братислав”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “براتيسلاڤا”
  • Narom: “Bratislava”
  • Nepali: “ब्रातिस्लाभा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bratislava”
  • Northern Luri: “براتیسلاوا”
  • Northern Sami: “Bratislava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bratislava”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bratislava”
  • Norwegian: “Bratislava”
  • Novial: “Bratislava”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bratislava”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܛܝܣܠܐܒܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pressburg”
  • Ossetian: “Братиславæ”
  • Pampanga: “Bratislava”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਾਤਿਸਲਾਵਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Bratislava”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bratislava”
  • Persian: “براتیسلاو”
  • Persian: “براتیسلاوا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Pressburg”
  • Piemontese: “Bratislava”
  • Polish: “Bratislava”
  • Polish: “Bratysława”
  • Portuguese: “Bratislava”
  • Pushto: “براتیسلاوا”
  • Quechua: “Bratislava”
  • Quechua: “Bratislawa”
  • Romanian: “Bratislava”
  • Romansh: “Bratislava”
  • Russian: “Братислава”
  • Russian: “Истрополис”
  • Russian: “Пожонь”
  • Russian: “Пресбург”
  • Russian: “Прессбург”
  • Russian: “Прешпорек”
  • Russian: “Прешпорок”
  • Rusyn: “Bratislava”
  • Rusyn: “Братїслава”
  • Samogitian: “Bratislava”
  • Sardinian: “Bratislava”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bratislava”
  • Scots: “Bratislava”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bratislava”
  • Serbian: “Братислава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bratislava”
  • Shona: “Bratislava”
  • Sicilian: “Bratislava”
  • Silesian: “Bratysława”
  • Sindhi: “براٽيسلاوا”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රැටිස්ලාවා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bratislava”
  • Slovak: “Bratislava”
  • Slovak: “Prešporok”
  • Slovenian: “Bratislava”
  • Somali: “Bratislava”
  • Spanish: “Bratislava”
  • Swahili: “Bratislava”
  • Swedish: “Bratislava”
  • Swiss German: “Bratislava”
  • Tagalog: “Bratislava”
  • Tajik: “Братислава”
  • Talysh: “Bratislava”
  • Tamil: “பிராத்திஸ்லாவா”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரதிஸ்லாவா”
  • Tatar: “Братислава”
  • Telugu: “బ్రాటిస్లావా”
  • Thai: “บราติสลาวา”
  • Tibetan: “བ་ར་ཏིསི་ལ་བ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bratislava”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bratislava”
  • Turkish: “Bratislava”
  • Turkish: “Posonium”
  • Turkish: “Pozsony”
  • Turkish: “Pressburg”
  • Turkish: “Preßburg”
  • Turkmen: “Bratislava”
  • Turkmen: “Bratislawa”
  • Twi: “Bratislava”
  • Twi: “Bratislawa”
  • Udmurt: “Братислава”
  • Uighur: “براتىسلاۋا”
  • Ukrainian: “Братислава”
  • Ukrainian: “Братіслава”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bratislava”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bratisława”
  • Urdu: “براٹیسلاوا”
  • Uzbek: “Bratislava”
  • Venetian: “Bratislava”
  • Veps: “Bratislav”
  • Vietnamese: “Bratislava”
  • Vlaams: “Bratislava”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bratislava”
  • Volapük: “Bratislava”
  • Võro: “Bratislava”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bratislava”
  • Welsh: “Bratislava”
  • Western Frisian: “Bratislava”
  • Western Panjabi: “براتسلاوا”
  • Wolof: “Baratislawa”
  • Wu Chinese: “布拉迪斯拉发”
  • Yakut: “Братислава”
  • Yiddish: “בראטיסלאווא”
  • Yiddish: “פרעשבורג”
  • Yoruba: “Bratislava”
  • Yue Chinese: “布拉迪斯拉發”
  • Zulu: “i-Bratislava”
  • “Bratislava”

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