Calafat
Calafat is a city in Dolj County, southern Romania, in the region of Oltenia. It lies on the river Danube, opposite the Bulgarian city of Vidin, to which it is linked by the Calafat-Vidin Bridge, opened in 2013.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Luciandrei, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include New Europe Bridge and Port of Calafat.
New Europe Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Uwarf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The New Europe Bridge, also known as Danube Bridge 2 is a road and rail bridge between the cities of Vidin, Bulgaria, and Calafat, Romania. It is the second bridge on the shared section of the Danube between the two countries.
Port of Calafat
Harbor
Photo: Gonzosft, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Port of Calafat is one of the largest Romanian river ports, located in the city of Calafat on the Danube River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Antimovo.
Antimovo
Village
Photo: Bazov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Antimovo is a village in Vidin Municipality, Vidin Province, Bulgaria.
Calafat
- Type: City with 18,500 residents
- Description: city in Dolj County, Romania
- Categories: municipality of Romania, border city, port city, and locality
- Location: Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.9943° or 43° 59′ 40″ northLongitude
22.9337° or 22° 56′ 1″ eastPopulation
18,500Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)United Nations Location Code
RO CAFOpen location code
8GM4XWVM+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1244326406OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Vietnamese—“Calafat” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Calafat”
- Arabic: “كالافات”
- Armenian: “Կալաֆատ”
- Basque: “Calafat”
- Belarusian: “Калафат”
- Bengali: “কালাফাত”
- Bulgarian: “Калафат”
- Catalan: “Calafat”
- Cebuano: “Calafat”
- Cebuano: “Municipiul Calafat”
- Chinese: “卡拉法特”
- Croatian: “Calafat”
- Danish: “Calafat”
- Dutch: “Calafat”
- Esperanto: “Calafat”
- Estonian: “Calafat”
- Finnish: “Calafat”
- French: “Calafat”
- Galician: “Calafat”
- German: “Calafat”
- German: “Kalafat”
- Greek: “Καλαφάτ”
- Gujarati: “કેલાફેટ”
- Hebrew: “קאלאפאט”
- Hebrew: “קלאפאט”
- Hindi: “कलाफत”
- Hungarian: “Calafat”
- Indonesian: “Calafat”
- Interlingue: “Calafat”
- Irish: “Calafat”
- Italian: “Calafat”
- Japanese: “カラファート”
- Japanese: “カラファトゥ”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲಫಾಟ್”
- Korean: “칼라파트”
- Latin: “Calafat”
- Latvian: “Kalafata”
- Lithuanian: “Kalafatas”
- Malay: “Calafat”
- Marathi: “कॅलाफॅट”
- Minangkabau: “Calafat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Calafat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Calafat”
- Norwegian: “Calafat”
- Persian: “کلفه”
- Polish: “Calafat”
- Portuguese: “Calafat”
- Romanian: “Calafat”
- Russian: “Калафат”
- Serbian: “Calafat”
- Serbian: “Kalafat”
- Serbian: “Калафат”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Calafat, Dolj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Calafat”
- Sinhala: “කලෆට්”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلفه”
- Spanish: “Calafat”
- Swedish: “Calafat”
- Tajik: “Kalafat”
- Tajik: “Калафат”
- Tamil: “காலபாட்”
- Telugu: “కలాఫాట్”
- Thai: “เอล คาลาฟาเต้”
- Turkish: “Calafat”
- Turkish: “Kalafat”
- Ukrainian: “Калафат”
- Urdu: “کالافات”
- Vietnamese: “Calafat”
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