Kranj
Kranj is the fourth-largest city in Slovenia and the largest urban center of the traditional region of Upper Carniola and the Slovene Alps. It is located approximately 20 kilometres northwest of the national capital Ljubljana, acting as the seat of the City Municipality of Kranj.
- Type: City with 36,800 residents
- Description: city in Slovenia
- Also known as: “Carnium”, “Cragni”, “Creina”, “Karnij”, and “Kransterdam”
Photo: Žiga, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Castle Khislstein and Kranj railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kokrica and Rakovica.
Kokrica
Village
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Zgornje Bitnje
Village
Kranj
- Category: locality
- Location: Urban Municipality of Kranj, Central Slovenia, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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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)
UN/LOCODE
SI KRJ
Open location code
8FRP69V3+8X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Kranj” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kranj”
- Amharic: “ክራንጅ”
- Arabic: “كرانج”
- Arabic: “كراني”
- Armenian: “Կրան”
- Asturian: “Kranj”
- Azerbaijani: “Kran”
- Azerbaijani: “Kranj”
- Balinese: “Kranj”
- Basque: “Kranj”
- Belarusian: “Крань”
- Bengali: “ক্রঞ্জ”
- Bosnian: “Kranj”
- Bulgarian: “Кран”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Kranj”
- Hebrew: “קראן”
- Hindi: “क्रांज”
- Hindi: “क्रान”
- Hungarian: “Kranj”
- Indonesian: “Kranj”
- Interlingue: “Kranj”
- Irish: “Kranj”
- Italian: “Craimburgo”
- Italian: “Kranj”
- Japanese: “クラーニ”
- Japanese: “クランj”
- Javanese: “Kranj”
- Kazakh: “Крань”
- Kirghiz: “Крань”
- Korean: “크란”
- Latin: “Carnioburgum”
- Latvian: “Kraņa”
- Lithuanian: “Kranis”
- Luxembourgish: “Kranj”
- Macedonian: “Крањ”
- Malay: “Kranj”
- Moksha: “Крань”
- Northern Frisian: “Kranj”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kranj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kranj”
- Norwegian: “Kranj”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kranj”
- Oromo: “Kranj”
- Ossetian: “Крань”
- Panjabi: “ਕ੍ਰਾਂਜ”
- Persian: “کرانج”
- Persian: “کرانی”
- Polish: “Kranj”
- Portuguese: “Kranj”
- Pushto: “کرانج”
- Pushto: “کراني”
- Romanian: “Kranj”
- Russian: “Крань”
- Scots: “Kranj”
- Serbian: “Крањ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kranj”
- Silesian: “Kranj”
- Slovak: “Kranj”
- Slovenian: “Kranj”
- Somali: “Kranj”
- Southern Sotho: “Kranj”
- Spanish: “Kranj”
- Swahili: “Kranj”
- Swedish: “Kranj”
- Tajik: “Крань”
- Tamil: “கிரஞ்ச்”
- Tatar: “Крань”
- Thai: “คราน”
- Turkish: “Kranj”
- Ukrainian: “Крань”
- Urdu: “کران”
- Urdu: “کرانج”
- Uzbek: “Kranj”
- Veps: “Kran‘”
- Vietnamese: “Kranj”
- Volapük: “Kranj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kranj”
- Welsh: “Kranj”
- Western Panjabi: “کرانج”
- Wu Chinese: “克拉尼”
- “Kranj”
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