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Kranj

Kranj is the fourth-largest city in and the largest urban center of the traditional region of and the Slovene . It is located approximately 20 kilometres northwest of the national capital , acting as the seat of the City Municipality of Kranj.
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  • Type: City with 36,800 residents
  • Description: city in Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Cragni”
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Photo: Žiga, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle Khislstein and Kranj railway station.

Castle
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Kieselstein Castle, also known as Khislstein, is a 13th-century castle in the city of Kranj, in the region of . The castle stands at what was once a defensible point, guarding the city pier and crossing over the river , and was predated on the site by a round 11th-century keep.

Railway station
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is the railway station in Kranj, the third largest municipality and fourth largest city in . The station is located on the railway line between , the capital city of , and , .

Manor estate
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The is a manor in , a neighborhood of the town of Kranj in northwestern Slovenia. It was built or owned in the 16th century by the Schrott family.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Britof and Naklo.

Village
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is a settlement just northeast of the town of Kranj in the region of .

Village
Photo: Žiga, Public domain.
is the largest town and the seat of the Municipality of in . In addition to the main settlement, formerly known as Veliko , it includes the hamlets of Malo , Pivka, and Podreber.

Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
is a settlement just north of Kranj in the region of . The , built slightly north of the main settlement centre, is dedicated to Saint Laurence.

Kranj

Latitude
46.2433° or 46° 14′ 36″ north
Longitude
14.3549° or 14° 21′ 18″ east
Population
36,800
Elevation
387 metres (1,270 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SI KRJ
Open location code
8FRP69V3+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29098951
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3197378
Wiki­data ID
Q1021
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Kranj” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kranj”
  • Arabic: “كراني”
  • Armenian: “Կրան”
  • Asturian: “Kranj”
  • Basque: “Kranj”
  • Belarusian: “Крань”
  • Bosnian: “Kranj”
  • Bulgarian: “Кран”
  • Catalan: “Krainburg”
  • Catalan: “Kranj”
  • Cebuano: “Kranj”
  • Central Kurdish: “کرانی”
  • Chechen: “Крань”
  • Chinese: “克拉尼”
  • Croatian: “Kranj”
  • Czech: “Kranj”
  • Danish: “Kranj”
  • Dutch: “Kranj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كرانى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه كرانى”
  • Esperanto: “Kranj”
  • Esperanto: “Kranjo”
  • Estonian: “Kranj”
  • Faroese: “Kranj”
  • Finnish: “Kranj”
  • French: “Kranj”
  • Friulian: “Kranj”
  • Georgian: “კრანი”
  • German: “Krainburg”
  • German: “Kranj”
  • Greek: “Κραν”
  • Hebrew: “קראן”
  • Hungarian: “Kranj”
  • Indonesian: “Kranj”
  • Interlingue: “Kranj”
  • Irish: “Kranj”
  • Italian: “Craimburgo”
  • Italian: “Kranj”
  • Japanese: “クラーニ”
  • Korean: “크란”
  • Latin: “Carnioburgum”
  • Latvian: “Kraņa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kranis”
  • Macedonian: “Крањ”
  • Moksha: “Крань”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kranj”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kranj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kranj”
  • Norwegian: “Kranj”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kranj”
  • Ossetian: “Крань”
  • Persian: “کرانی”
  • Polish: “Kranj”
  • Portuguese: “Kranj”
  • Pushto: “کراني”
  • Romanian: “Kranj”
  • Russian: “Крань”
  • Scots: “Kranj”
  • Serbian: “Крањ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kranj”
  • Silesian: “Kranj”
  • Slovak: “Kranj”
  • Slovenian: “Carnium”
  • Slovenian: “Creina”
  • Slovenian: “Karnij”
  • Slovenian: “Krainburg”
  • Slovenian: “Kranj”
  • Slovenian: “Kransterdam”
  • Southern Sotho: “Kranj”
  • Spanish: “Kranj”
  • Swedish: “Kranj”
  • Tamil: “கிரஞ்ச்”
  • Tatar: “Крань”
  • Thai: “คราน”
  • Turkish: “Kranj”
  • Ukrainian: “Крань”
  • Urdu: “کران”
  • Vietnamese: “Kranj”
  • Volapük: “Kranj”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kranj”
  • Welsh: “Kranj”
  • Western Panjabi: “کرانج”
  • Wu Chinese: “克拉尼”
  • “Kranj”

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