Nagykanizsa
Nagykanizsa is a city in Hungary in the Somogy-Zala hills, lying between the western corner of the Lake Balaton and the Croatian and Slovenian border. This pulsing border town, with its 47,000 inhabitants, is the centre of the southwestern Transdanubian region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Civertan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 42,500 residents
- Description: city in Zala county, Hungary
- Also known as: “Bagola”, “Bagolasánc”, “Bajcsa”, “Gross Kanischa”, “Grosz Kanischa”, “Korpavár”, “Miklósfa”, “Nagy-Kanizsa”, and “Somogyszentmiklós”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nagykanizsa railway station and Inkey Kápolna.
17 Longitude Monument (Nagykanizsa)
Memorial
Photo: Sbalint, Public domain.
17 Longitude Monument (Nagykanizsa) is a memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bagola.
Bagola
Suburb
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bagola is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Nagykanizsa.
Nagykanizsa
- Categories: town in Hungary, city with county rights, and locality
- Location: Zala County, Western Transdanubia, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.4548° or 46° 27′ 17″ northLongitude
16.9924° or 16° 59′ 33″ eastPopulation
42,500Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)United Nations Location Code
HU NGYOpen location code
8FRRFX3R+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 286101602OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Nagykanizsa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ناجيكانيزسا”
- Aragonese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Armenian: “Նադկանիժա”
- Arpitan: “Nagykanizsa”
- Asturian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Azerbaijani: “Nadkanija”
- Basque: “Nagykanizsa”
- Belarusian: “Надзьканіжа”
- Bislama: “Nagykanizsa”
- Breton: “Nagykanizsa”
- Bulgarian: “Надканижа”
- Catalan: “Nagykanizsa”
- Cebuano: “Nagykanizsa”
- Chinese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Chinese: “瑙吉考尼饶”
- Chinese: “瑙吉考尼饒”
- Choctaw: “Nagykanizsa”
- Cornish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Corsican: “Nagykanizsa”
- Creek: “Nagykanizsa”
- Croatian: “Velika Kaniža”
- Czech: “Nagykanizsa”
- Czech: “Velká Kaniža”
- Danish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Dutch: “Nagykanizsa”
- Esperanto: “Nagykanizsa”
- Estonian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Faroese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Fijian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Finnish: “Nagykanizsa”
- French: “Kanizsa”
- French: “Nagykanizsa”
- Friulian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Galician: “Nagykanizsa”
- Georgian: “ნადკანიჟა”
- German: “Groß-Kanischa”
- German: “Groß-Kanizsa”
- German: “Großkirchen”
- German: “HU-NK”
- German: “Kanischa”
- German: “Kaniza”
- German: “Kaniža”
- German: “Nagykanizsa”
- Hebrew: “נג’קניז’ה”
- Hungarian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Hunsrik: “Nagykanizsa”
- Icelandic: “Nagykanizsa”
- Ido: “Nagykanizsa”
- Indonesian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Interlingua: “Nagykanizsa”
- Interlingue: “Nagykanizsa”
- Irish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Italian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Japanese: “ナジカニジャ”
- Javanese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Jutish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Kabuverdianu: “Nagykanizsa”
- Korean: “너지커니저”
- Kotava: “Nagykanizsa”
- Ladin: “Nagykanizsa”
- Ladino: “Nagykanizsa”
- Latvian: “Naģkaniža”
- Latvian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Ligurian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Limburgan: “Nagykanizsa”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Nagykanizsa”
- Lithuanian: “Nadkaniža”
- Lombard: “Nagykanizsa”
- Lower Silesian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Lower Sorbian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Lule Sami: “Nagykanizsa”
- Luxembourgish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Macedonian: “Велика Канижа”
- Macedonian: “Наѓканижа”
- Mainfränkisch: “Nagykanizsa”
- Malay: “Nagykanizsa”
- Manx: “Nagykanizsa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Mingrelian: “ნადკანიჟა”
- Mirandese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Narom: “Nagykanizsa”
- Nauru: “Nagykanizsa”
- Neapolitan: “Nagykanizsa”
- Niuean: “Nagykanizsa”
- Northern Frisian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Northern Sami: “Nagykanizsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nagykanizsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nagykanizsa”
- Novial: “Nagykanizsa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nagykanizsa”
- Ossetian: “Надьканижæ”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “قنیژه”
- Pennsylvania German: “Nagykanizsa”
- Persian: “نادکانیژا”
- Persian: “نادیکانیژا”
- Picard: “Nagykanizsa”
- Piemontese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nagykanizsa”
- Pite Sami: “Nagykanizsa”
- Plautdietsch: “Nagykanizsa”
- Polish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Portuguese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Quechua: “Nagykanizsa”
- Romanian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Romansh: “Nagykanizsa”
- Russian: “Надьканижа”
- Sardinian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Saterfriesisch: “Nagykanizsa”
- Scots: “Nagykanizsa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nagykanizsa”
- Serbian: “Velika Kanjiža”
- Serbian: “Велика Канижа”
- Serbian: “Велика Кањижа”
- Serbian: “Канижа”
- Serbian: “Нађкањижа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velika Kaniža”
- Sicilian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Slovak: “Nagykanizsa”
- Slovak: “Veľká Kaniža”
- Slovenian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Slovenian: “Velika Kaniža”
- Southern Sami: “Nagykanizsa”
- Spanish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Swedish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Tatar: “Наҗканижа”
- Turkish: “Kanije”
- Turkish: “Nagykanizsa”
- Ukrainian: “Надьканіжа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Venetian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Veps: “Nad’kaniž”
- Veps: “Sur‘ Kaniž”
- Vietnamese: “Nagykanizsa”
- Vlaams: “Nagykanizsa”
- Volapük: “Nagykanizsa”
- Walloon: “Nagykanizsa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nagykanizsa”
- Welsh: “Nagykanizsa”
- Western Frisian: “Nagykanizsa”
- Western Panjabi: “نادکانیزسا”
- Zeeuws: “Nagykanizsa”
- “Nagykanizsa”
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