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Koper

Koper is the fifth-largest city in . Located in the Istrian region in the southwestern part of the country, Koper is the main urban center of the Slovene coast.
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  • Type: Town with 24,900 residents
  • Description: city in southwest Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Capo d’Istria”, “Capodistria”, “Grad Kopar”, and “Koper / Capodistria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Salt marsh and Bonifika Stadium.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
A , saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Koper, Slovenia. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Koper. The stadium is part of Bonifika sports complex, together with a smaller athletics stadium, indoor hall and an indoor swimming pool.

Public building
Photo: Earnest B, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a 15th-century Venetian Gothic palace in the city of Koper, in southwest . Located on the southern side of the city's central Tito Square, it houses the Koper city government and a wedding hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Izola and Ankaran.

Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an ancient Mediterranean town with a lively history on the Slovenian coast. The old part of the town rests upon what once used to be an island, which is where its name comes from.

Village
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is a town in the , located near the border with , in the Littoral region of . It is less than 5 km from the Italian town of near , about 2.5 km from the Italian-Slovenian border, 6.5 km from Koper, and 33 km from the nearest town, . is situated 3½ km north of Koper.

Village
is a settlement east of Koper in the Littoral region of . is situated 3½ km east of Koper.

Koper

Latitude
45.548° or 45° 32′ 53″ north
Longitude
13.7305° or 13° 43′ 50″ east
Population
24,900
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SI KOP
Open location code
8FQMGPXJ+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1640456909
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3197753
Wiki­data ID
Q1015
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Koper” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Koper”
  • Arabic: “كوبر”
  • Aragonese: “Koper”
  • Armenian: “Կոպեր”
  • Asturian: “Koper”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koper”
  • Bashkir: “Копер”
  • Basque: “Koper”
  • Belarusian: “Кападыстрыя”
  • Belarusian: “Копер”
  • Belarusian: “Копэр”
  • Bengali: “কাপার”
  • Bosnian: “Koper”
  • Breton: “Koper”
  • Bulgarian: “Копер”
  • Catalan: “Koper”
  • Cebuano: “Koper (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Koper”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆپەر”
  • Chinese: “科佩尔”
  • Croatian: “Kopar”
  • Czech: “Koper”
  • Danish: “Koper”
  • Dutch: “Koper”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوبر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه كوبر”
  • Esperanto: “Kapodistrio”
  • Esperanto: “Koper”
  • Estonian: “Koper”
  • Finnish: “Koper”
  • French: “Koper”
  • Friulian: “Cjaudistrie”
  • Galician: “Koper”
  • Georgian: “კოპერი”
  • German: “Capodistria”
  • German: “Koper”
  • Greek: “Κόπερ”
  • Gujarati: “કોપર”
  • Hebrew: “קופר”
  • Hindi: “कोपेर”
  • Hungarian: “Koper”
  • Indonesian: “Koper, Slovenia”
  • Indonesian: “Koper”
  • Interlingue: “Koper”
  • Irish: “Koper”
  • Italian: “Capo d’Istria”
  • Italian: “Capodistria”
  • Italian: “Koper”
  • Japanese: “コペル”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಪರ್”
  • Korean: “코페르”
  • Latin: “Caput Histriae”
  • Latin: “Iustinopolis”
  • Latvian: “Kopera”
  • Lithuanian: “Koperis”
  • Macedonian: “Копер”
  • Malay: “Koper”
  • Marathi: “कूपर”
  • Moksha: “Копэр”
  • Northern Frisian: “Koper”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Koper”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Koper”
  • Norwegian: “Koper”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Koper”
  • Ossetian: “Копер”
  • Persian: “کپر، اسلوونی”
  • Persian: “کوپر”
  • Polish: “Capodistria”
  • Polish: “Koper”
  • Portuguese: “Koper”
  • Pushto: “کپر”
  • Romanian: “Koper”
  • Russian: “Копер”
  • Scots: “Koper”
  • Serbian: “Копар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kopar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Koper”
  • Sinhala: “කොපර්”
  • Slovak: “Koper”
  • Slovenian: “Aegida”
  • Slovenian: “Capo d`Istria”
  • Slovenian: “Capodistria”
  • Slovenian: “Caput Histriae”
  • Slovenian: “Insula Capraria”
  • Slovenian: “Justinpolis”
  • Slovenian: “Koper”
  • Spanish: “Capodistria”
  • Spanish: “Koper”
  • Swedish: “Koper”
  • Tajik: “Купер”
  • Tamil: “கொபர்”
  • Tamil: “கொபேர்”
  • Tatar: “Копер”
  • Telugu: “కోపర్”
  • Thai: “กาโปดิสเตรีย”
  • Thai: “โคเปอร์”
  • Turkish: “Koper”
  • Ukrainian: “Копер”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Koper”
  • Urdu: “کوپر”
  • Venetian: “Capodistria”
  • Vietnamese: “Koper”
  • Volapük: “Koper”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Koper”
  • Welsh: “Capodistria”
  • Welsh: “Koper”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوپر”
  • Wu Chinese: “科佩尔”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Koper”. Photo: Grant Bishop, CC BY-SA 4.0.