Czech Republic
South Moravia
Brno-City District

Brno

Brno is the major city of Moravia. It is the largest city in Moravia and the second-largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area. It was founded around the year 1000; and since the 14th century, the city served as the capital of Moravia.
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  • Type: City with 379,000 residents
  • Description: city in Czechia
  • Also known as: “Berno” and “Mesto Brno”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Villa Tugendhat and Spilberk Castle.

Museum
Photo: Stefan Fadinger, CC BY 4.0.
is an architecturally significant building in Brno, . It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.

Castle
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Špilberk Castle is a castle on the hilltop in Brno, Southern . Its construction began as early as the first half of the 13th century by the Přemyslid kings and completed by King Ottokar II of Bohemia.

Church
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic cathedral located on the Petrov hill in the Brno-střed district of the city of Brno in the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brno-Židenice and Veveří.

Suburb
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is a city district in Brno, , located east of the city's . It consists of the eastern part of the municipal part and cadastral territory of and most of .

Suburb
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is a cadastral territory in the city district of , located north of the of Brno, . It has an area of 1.98 km².

Suburb
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is a municipal part and cadastral territory of Brno, , located in the central part of the city. It has an area of 2.46 km2. The territory of modern was gradually annexed to Brno in parts in 1850, 1912 and 1919.

Brno

Latitude
49.1922° or 49° 11′ 32″ north
Longitude
16.6113° or 16° 36′ 41″ east
Population
379,000
Elevation
226 metres (741 feet)
IATA airport code
BRQ
United Nations Location Code
CZ BRQ
Open location code
8FXR5JR6+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1601566699
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3078610
Wiki­data ID
Q14960
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Brno” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brno”
  • Albanian: “Bërno”
  • Albanian: “Brno”
  • Amharic: “ብርኖ”
  • Arabic: “برنو”
  • Aragonese: “Brno”
  • Armenian: “Բռնո”
  • Asturian: “Brno”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brno”
  • Balinese: “Brno”
  • Basque: “Brno”
  • Bavarian: “Brünn”
  • Belarusian: “Брно”
  • Bengali: “বনো”
  • Bosnian: “Brno”
  • Breton: “Brno”
  • Bulgarian: “Бърно”
  • Catalan: “Brno”
  • Catalan: “Brünn”
  • Cebuano: “Brno (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Brno”
  • Central Kurdish: “برنۆ”
  • Chechen: “Брно”
  • Chinese: “布尔诺”
  • Chinese: “布爾諾”
  • Croatian: “Brno”
  • Czech: “Brno”
  • Danish: “Brno”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Brno”
  • Dutch: “Brno”
  • Eastern Mari: “Брно”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برنو”
  • Erzya: “Брно ош”
  • Esperanto: “Brno”
  • Esperanto: “Brunno”
  • Esperanto: “Bruno”
  • Estonian: “Brno”
  • Faroese: “Brno”
  • Finnish: “Brno”
  • Finnish: “Brünn”
  • French: “Brno”
  • Galician: “Brno”
  • Georgian: “ბრნო”
  • German: “Brünn” (historical)
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌿”
  • Greek: “Μπρνο”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રનો”
  • Hebrew: “ברין”
  • Hebrew: “ברנו”
  • Hindi: “ब्रनो”
  • Hindi: “ब्र्नो”
  • Hungarian: “Brno”
  • Hungarian: “Brünn”
  • Icelandic: “Brno”
  • Ido: “Brno”
  • Indonesian: “Brno”
  • Interlingue: “Brno”
  • Irish: “Brno”
  • Italian: “Brno”
  • Italian: “Bruna”
  • Japanese: “ブリュン”
  • Japanese: “ブルノ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Brno”
  • Kannada: “ಬೃನೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರ್ನೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Брно”
  • Kirghiz: “Брно”
  • Komi: “Брно”
  • Korean: “브르노”
  • Latin: “Bruna”
  • Latvian: “Brno”
  • Limburgan: “Brno”
  • Lithuanian: “Brno”
  • Lombard: “Bruna”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Brno”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brno”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brünn”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brno”
  • Macedonian: “Брно”
  • Malay: “Brno”
  • Maltese: “Brno”
  • Marathi: “ब्रनो”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრნო”
  • Moksha: “Брна”
  • Moksha: “Брно”
  • Mongolian: “Брно”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brno (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brno”
  • Northern Sami: “Brno”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brno”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brno”
  • Norwegian: “Brno”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brno”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brynn”
  • Ossetian: “Брно”
  • Persian: “برنو”
  • Picard: “Brno”
  • Piemontese: “Brno”
  • Polish: “Brno”
  • Portuguese: “Brno”
  • Pushto: “برنو”
  • Romanian: “Brno”
  • Russian: “Брно”
  • Rusyn: “Брно”
  • Samogitian: “Brno”
  • Sardinian: “Brno”
  • Scots: “Brno”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Brno”
  • Serbian: “Брно”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brno”
  • Sicilian: “Brno”
  • Silesian: “Brno”
  • Sinhala: “බ්ර්නෝ”
  • Slovak: “Brno”
  • Slovenian: “Brno”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برنو”
  • Southern Sotho: “Brno”
  • Spanish: “Brno”
  • Swahili: “Brno”
  • Swedish: “Brno”
  • Swedish: “Brünn”
  • Tagalog: “Brno”
  • Tajik: “Брно”
  • Tamil: “பிர்னோ”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரணோ”
  • Tatar: “Брно”
  • Telugu: “బ్రోనో”
  • Thai: “เบอร์โน”
  • Turkish: “Brno”
  • Turkmen: “Brno”
  • Ukrainian: “Брно”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brno”
  • Urdu: “برنو”
  • Uzbek: “Brno”
  • Venetian: “Brno”
  • Veps: “Brno”
  • Vietnamese: “Brno”
  • Vlax Romani: “Brno”
  • Volapük: “Brno”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brno”
  • Welsh: “Brno”
  • Western Frisian: “Brno”
  • Western Panjabi: “برنو”
  • Wu Chinese: “布尔诺”
  • Yiddish: “ברין”
  • Yue Chinese: “布爾諾”
  • “Brno”
  • “Brünn”
  • “ma tomo Pono”

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