Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast.- Type: Region
- Description: geographical region in Europe
- Also known as: “Kosovo proper”, “Kosovo region”, and “region of Kosovo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kosovo National Library ‘Pjetër Bogdani’ and Gračanica Monastery.
Kosovo National Library ‘Pjetër Bogdani’
Library
Photo: Arianselmani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Library of Kosovo is the highest library institution in Kosovo established by the Assembly and is located in Pristina. The mission of the library is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual heritage of Kosovo.
Gračanica Monastery
Monastery
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The Gračanica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo. It was built by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321. The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and on 13 July 2006 it was placed…
Archaeoligocal Park Ulpiana
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Ulpiana was an ancient Roman city located in what is today Kosovo. It was also named Justiniana Secunda. Ulpiana is located in the municipality of Gračanica, 12 km southeast of Pristina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gračanica and Kosovo Polje.
Gračanica
Photo: Laurent Drouet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gračanica is a Serbian community in Kosovo, centered around the Gračanica Monastery and about 10 km from Pristina. Since the end of conflict, this town has functioned as a center for the remaining Serbian community in Kosovo.
Kosovo Polje
Town
Kosovo Polje or Fushë Kosova is a city and municipality located in the District of Pristina in Kosovo. The municipality has an area of 84.09 km2 and in 2024 had 63,949 inhabitants making it the eighth most populous municipality in Kosovo.
Hajvalia
Village
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Hajvalia is a village in the municipality of Pristina, Kosovo. It has a population of 7,702 inhabitants. A small creek begins in the town, while another begins north-east of the town and runs through it.
Kosovo
- Categories: disputed territory and locality
- Location: Pristina, Pristina Districte, Kosovo, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.6202° or 42° 37′ 13″ northLongitude
21.1562° or 21° 9′ 22″ eastOpen location code
8GJ3J5C4+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 4740332986OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q1231
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kosovo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kosowo”
- Albanian: “Amselfeld”
- Albanian: “Kosovë, Kosova”
- Albanian: “Rrafshi i Kosovës”
- Arabic: “كوسوفو”
- Aragonese: “Kosovo”
- Armenian: “Կոսովո և Մետոխիա”
- Arpitan: “Kosovo”
- Asturian: “Kosovu”
- Aymara: “Kusuwu”
- Azerbaijani: “Kosovo”
- Basque: “Kosovo”
- Bavarian: “Kosovo”
- Belarusian: “Косава”
- Bengali: “কসোভো”
- Bosnian: “Kosovo”
- Breton: “Kosovo”
- Bulgarian: “Косово поле”
- Bulgarian: “Косово”
- Burmese: “ကိုဆိုဗိုဒေသ”
- Catalan: “Kosovo”
- Cebuano: “Kosobo”
- Central Bikol: “Kosobo”
- Central Kurdish: “کۆسۆڤۆ”
- Chechen: “Косово”
- Chinese: “科索夫”
- Chinese: “科索沃”
- Chinese: “科索沃地區”
- Cornish: “Kosova”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kosovo”
- Croatian: “Kosovo”
- Czech: “Kosovo”
- Danish: “Kosovo”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kosova”
- Dutch: “Amselfeld”
- Dutch: “Kosovo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوسوفو”
- Esperanto: “Kosovo”
- Estonian: “Kosovo”
- Extremaduran: “Cosovu”
- Faroese: “Kosovo”
- Finnish: “Kosovo”
- French: “Kosovo”
- Gagauz: “Kosovo”
- Galician: “Kosovo”
- Gan Chinese: “科索沃”
- Georgian: “კოსოვო”
- German: “Amselfeld”
- German: “Kosovo”
- Greek: “Κόσοβο”
- Greek: “Κοσσυφοπέδιο”
- Greek: “πεδιάδα του Κοσόβου”
- Guarani: “Kosovo”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khô-sò-vok”
- Hebrew: “קוסובו”
- Hindi: “कोसोवो गणराज्य”
- Hungarian: “Koszovó”
- Icelandic: “Kosóvó”
- Ido: “Kosovo”
- Inari Sami: “Kosovo”
- Indonesian: “Kosovo”
- Interlingua: “Kosovo”
- Interlingue: “Kosovo”
- Irish: “An Chosaiv”
- Italian: “Cossovo”
- Italian: “Kosovo”
- Japanese: “コソヴォ”
- Japanese: “コソボ”
- Javanese: “Kosovo”
- Kabyle: “Kosovo”
- Kalaallisut: “Kosovo”
- Kalmyk: “Косовин Таңһч”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಸೊವೊ”
- Kazakh: “Косово”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kosovo”
- Kölsch: “Kosovo”
- Komi: “Косово”
- Korean: “코소보”
- Kurdish: “Kosova”
- Ladino: “Kosovo”
- Lao: “ປະເທດໂກໂຊໂວ”
- Latin: “Kosovia”
- Latvian: “Kosova”
- Limburgan: “Kosovo”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Cosovo”
- Literary Chinese: “科索沃”
- Lithuanian: “Kosovas”
- Liv: “Kosovo”
- Low German: “Kosovo”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kosowo”
- Luxembourgish: “Kosovo”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Cosova”
- Macedonian: “Косово”
- Malay: “Kosovo”
- Malayalam: “കൊസോവ്”
- Maltese: “Kosovo”
- Manx: “Kosovo”
- Marathi: “कोसोव्हो”
- Mazanderani: “کوزوو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kosovo”
- Mingrelian: “კოსოვო”
- Narom: “Kosovo”
- Nauru: “Kosovo”
- Northern Frisian: “Kosovo”
- Northern Sami: “Kosovo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kosovo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kosovo”
- Norwegian: “Kosovo”
- Novial: “Kosovo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kosova”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kosovo”
- Oriya: “କୋସୋଭୋ”
- Ossetian: “Косово”
- Papiamento: “Kosovo”
- Persian: “کوزوو”
- Piemontese: “Kosovo”
- Polish: “Kosowo”
- Pontic: “Κόσοβο”
- Portuguese: “Kosovo”
- Quechua: “Kusuwu”
- Romanian: “Kosovo”
- Romansh: “Cosovo”
- Russian: “Косово (область)”
- Russian: “Косово (регион)”
- Russian: “Косово поле”
- Russian: “Косово”
- Samoan: “Kosovo”
- Samogitian: “Kuosuovs”
- Sardinian: “Kòssovu”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kosovo”
- Scots: “Kosovo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “sgìre Chosobho”
- Serbian: “Kosovo”
- Serbian: “Косово”
- Serbian: “Косовска област”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kosovo”
- Shona: “Kosovo”
- Sicilian: “Kòssuvu”
- Skolt Sami: “Kosovo”
- Slovak: “Kosovo”
- Slovenian: “Kosovo”
- Slovenian: “Kosovsko polje”
- Somali: “Kosofo”
- Spanish: “Kosovo”
- Sundanese: “Kosovo”
- Swahili: “Kosovo”
- Swedish: “Kosovo”
- Swiss German: “Kosovo”
- Tagalog: “Kosovo”
- Tamil: “கொசோவோ”
- Thai: “ประเทศคอซอวอ”
- Tibetan: “ཁོ་སོ་ཝོ།”
- Turkish: “Kosova”
- Ukrainian: “Косово”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kosowo”
- Urdu: “کوسووہ”
- Uzbek: “Kosovo”
- Venetian: “Kosovo”
- Veps: “Kosov”
- Veps: “Kosovo”
- Vietnamese: “Kosovo”
- Vlaams: “Kosovo”
- Võro: “Kosovo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kosovo”
- Welsh: “Cosofo”
- Western Frisian: “Kosovo”
- Western Panjabi: “کوسوو”
- Wu Chinese: “科索沃”
- Yakut: “Косова”
- Yoruba: “Kósófò”
- Yue Chinese: “科索沃”
- Zeeuws: “Kosovo”
- “Cosovo”
- “ma Kosowo”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as NIC and Lagjja 038.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include STEP Sport Center and Bolnica.
Kosovo: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Prizren, Mitrovica, Peja, and Gjakova.
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