Košice

Košice is the second largest city in , with a population of almost 240,000. It was the European Capital of Culture in 2013. Despite its relative remoteness, you may likely find Košice a hidden, unknown and approachable gem when seeking for a lesson in less known European history, lively arts scene or for a less spiritual entertainment thanks to its vibrant party scene.
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Ville Miettinen, CC BY 2.0.
  • City with about 222,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 210 metres (680 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code KSC
  • …was formerly known as “Kassa”
  • Description: city in Slovakia

Places of Interest

Highlights include Steel Arena and National Theatre Košice.
RickRichards, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stadium
– Ladislav Troják Stadium in Košice is the home arena of the ice hockey club HC Košice.
Erika Mlejová, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Theater building
The is situated in the centre of Košice, .
Maros, CC BY 2.5.
Church
The Cathedral of St. Elizabeth, also called Saint…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Košice-Západ and Košice-Juh.
Jagro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Suburb
is a borough of Košice, .
Marián Gladiš, Public domain.
Suburb
is a borough of the city of Košice, .
Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Suburb
Košice Staré Mesto is a borough of Košice, .

Košice

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Latitude
48.7172° or 48° 43′ 2″ north
Longitude
21.2497° or 21° 14′ 59″ east
UN/LOCODE
SK KSC
Open location code
8GW3P68X+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 530544488
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
724443
Wiki­data ID
Q25409

Satellite Map

Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Košice” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Košice”
  • Albanian: “Koshice”
  • Amharic: “ኮሺቸ”
  • Arabic: “كوشيتسه”
  • Aragonese: “Košice”
  • Armenian: “Կոշիցե”
  • Asturian: “Košice”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koşitse”
  • Bashkir: “Кошице”
  • Basque: “Košice”
  • Bavarian: “Košice”
  • Belarusian: “Кошыцы”
  • Belarusian: “Кошыцэ”
  • Bengali: “কসিছে”
  • Bengali: “কোশিৎসে”
  • Bosnian: “Košice”
  • Breton: “Košice”
  • Bulgarian: “Кашша”
  • Bulgarian: “Кошице”
  • Catalan: “Košice”
  • Cebuano: “Košice”
  • Chechen: “Кошици”
  • Chinese: “科希策”
  • Chinese: “考绍”
  • Chinese: “高溪樹”
  • Church Slavic: “Кошицє”
  • Croatian: “Košice”
  • Czech: “Cassovia”
  • Czech: “Košice”
  • Danish: “Cassovia”
  • Danish: “Košice”
  • Dutch: “Košice”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوشيتسه”
  • Esperanto: “Košice”
  • Estonian: “Košice”
  • Finnish: “Koshice”
  • Finnish: “Košice”
  • French: “Cassovie”
  • French: “Košice”
  • Galician: “Košice”
  • Georgian: “კოშიცე”
  • German: “Košice”
  • German: “Kaschau” (historical)
  • Greek: “Κόζιτσε”
  • Greek: “Κόσιτσε”
  • Gujarati: “કોશિસ”
  • Hausa: “Kosice”
  • Hebrew: “קאשוי”
  • Hebrew: “קושיצה”
  • Hindi: “कोशिचे”
  • Hindi: “कोशित्से”
  • Hungarian: “Cassoviae”
  • Hungarian: “Kassa”
  • Icelandic: “Košice”
  • Ido: “Košice”
  • Indonesian: “Košice”
  • Interlingue: “Košice”
  • Italian: “Cassovia”
  • Italian: “Košice”
  • Japanese: “カッシャ”
  • Japanese: “コシツェ”
  • Javanese: “Kosice”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಶೀಟ್ಸೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಸ್ಸಿಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кошице”
  • Kirghiz: “Кошице”
  • Korean: “커셔”
  • Korean: “코시체”
  • Kotava: “Košice”
  • Latin: “Cassovia”
  • Latvian: “Košice”
  • Limburgan: “Košice”
  • Lingala: “Košice”
  • Lithuanian: “Košicė”
  • Lombard: “Košice”
  • Low German: “Košice”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Košice”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kosice”
  • Macedonian: “Кошице”
  • Malay: “Kosice”
  • Maltese: “Košice”
  • Marathi: “कोशित्सा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Košice”
  • Moksha: “Кошицэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Košice”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cassovia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kašava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Košice”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Koszyce”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cassovia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Košice”
  • Norwegian: “Košice”
  • Oromo: “Kosice”
  • Ossetian: “Кошице”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਸ਼ਿਚੇ”
  • Persian: “کاسسا”
  • Persian: “کوشیتسه”
  • Polish: “Koszyce”
  • Portuguese: “Košice”
  • Pushto: “کوشیتسه ښار”
  • Pushto: “کوشیچه”
  • Romanian: “Cașovia”
  • Romanian: “Košice”
  • Romanian: “Koszice”
  • Russian: “Кашау”
  • Russian: “Кашша”
  • Russian: “Кашшо”
  • Russian: “Кошице”
  • Russian: “Кошицы”
  • Rusyn: “Кошіцї”
  • Scots: “Košice”
  • Serbian: “Кошице”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Košice”
  • Silesian: “Košice”
  • Sinhala: “කොසිකේ”
  • Slovak: “Košice”
  • Slovenian: “Košice”
  • Somali: “Kosice”
  • Spanish: “Košice”
  • Swahili: “Kosice”
  • Swedish: “Cassau”
  • Swedish: “Košice”
  • Tajik: “Кошице”
  • Tamil: “கோசிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Кошитсе”
  • Tatar: “Кошице”
  • Telugu: “కోసిసె”
  • Thai: “กอชิตเซ”
  • Turkish: “Kaşa”
  • Turkish: “Kaşevar”
  • Turkish: “Košice”
  • Ukrainian: “Кошице”
  • Ukrainian: “Кошиці”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Košice”
  • Urdu: “کوشیسہ”
  • Uzbek: “Koshitse”
  • Uzbek: “Košice”
  • Venetian: “Košice”
  • Veps: “Košice”
  • Vietnamese: “Košice”
  • Volapük: “Košice”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Košice”
  • Welsh: “Košice”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوشیسے”
  • Wu Chinese: “科希策”
  • Yiddish: “קאשוי”
  • Yiddish: “קאשיצע”
  • Yue Chinese: “高溪樹”
  • “Kascha”

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