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Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica is a town in on the Italian border. The neighbouring town of is in Italy and is approximately 5 minutes walk from the centre of Nova Gorica.
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  • Type: Town with 13,500 residents
  • Description: city in Western Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Gorica”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Urban Municipality of Nova Gorica and Solkan Bridge.

Town hall
The is a municipality in the traditional region of the Slovene Littoral in western . The seat of the municipality is the city of Nova Gorica. Nova Gorica became a municipality in 1994. It borders .

Bridge
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The is a 219.7-meter arch bridge over the near Nova Gorica in western . With an arch span of 85 meters, it is the world's longest stone arch railroad bridge.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose sports venue in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of ND Gorica. The stadium was built in 1964 and has a capacity of 3,100 seats.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gorizia and Soča Valley.

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is a town and municipality in the autonomous region of of northeast . It is located at the foot of the , bordering .

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Soča or Isonzo is a 138-kilometre long river that flows through western and northeastern . An river in character, its source lies in the Trenta Valley in the in northwestern Slovenia, at an elevation of 876 metres.

Town
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is a town and the administrative seat of the Municipality of Šempeter-Vrtojba in the Slovene Littoral region of . There is a border crossing into the Italian town of .

Nova Gorica

Latitude
45.9581° or 45° 57′ 29″ north
Longitude
13.6475° or 13° 38′ 51″ east
Population
13,500
Elevation
103 metres (338 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SI NOG
Open location code
8FQMXJ5W+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44870243
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3194452
Wiki­data ID
Q1018
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Nova Gorica” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Arabic: “نوفا جوريتسا”
  • Armenian: “Նովա Գորիցա”
  • Asturian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Basque: “Nova Gorica”
  • Belarusian: “Нова Горыца”
  • Belarusian: “Нова-Горыца”
  • Bosnian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Bulgarian: “Нова Горица”
  • Catalan: “Nova Gorica”
  • Cebuano: “Nova Gorica (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Nova Gorica”
  • Central Kurdish: “نۆڤا گۆریتسا”
  • Chechen: “Нова Гориця”
  • Chinese: “新戈里察”
  • Croatian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Czech: “Nova Gorica”
  • Danish: “Nova Gorica”
  • Dutch: “Nova Gorica”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نوفا جوريتسا”
  • Esperanto: “Nov-Gorico”
  • Esperanto: “Nova Gorica”
  • Estonian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Finnish: “Nova Gorica”
  • French: “la Nouvelle Gorizia”
  • French: “Nova Gorica”
  • Friulian: “Gnove Gurize”
  • Georgian: “ნოვა-გორიცა”
  • German: “Neu-Görz”
  • German: “Neugörz”
  • German: “Nova Gorica”
  • Greek: “Νόβα Γκορίτσα”
  • Greek: “Νόβα Γκόριτσα”
  • Hebrew: “נובה גוריצה”
  • Hungarian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Indonesian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Italian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Italian: “Nuova Gorizia”
  • Japanese: “ノヴァ・ゴリツァ”
  • Korean: “노바고리차”
  • Latin: “Goritia Nova”
  • Lithuanian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Macedonian: “Нова Горица”
  • Moksha: “Нова Горица”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nova Gorica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nova Gorica”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nova Gorica”
  • Ossetian: “Новæ-Горицæ”
  • Persian: “نوا گریتسا”
  • Persian: “نووا گوریتسا”
  • Polish: “Nova Gorica”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Gorica”
  • Romanian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Russian: “Нова-Горица”
  • Scots: “Nova Gorica”
  • Serbian: “Нова Горица”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Slovak: “Nova Gorica”
  • Slovenian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Spanish: “Nova Gorica”
  • Swedish: “Nova Gorica”
  • Tamil: “நொவா கோரிகா”
  • Tatar: “Нова Гориця”
  • Tatar: “Нова-Горитса”
  • Thai: “นอวากอรีตซา”
  • Turkish: “Nova Gorica”
  • Ukrainian: “Нова Гориця”
  • Urdu: “نووا گوریتسا”
  • Venetian: “Nova Gorica (comun)”
  • Venetian: “Nova Gorica”
  • Vietnamese: “Nova Gorica”
  • Volapük: “Nova Gorica”
  • Western Panjabi: “نووا گوریکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “新戈里察”
  • “Nova Gorica”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nova Gorica”. Photo: Viator slovenicus, CC BY-SA 3.0.