Pernik

Pernik is an industrial city in , close to the capital . It's of interest to travellers mainly for the underground Museum of Mining and the annual International Festival of Masquerade Games, a showcase of mummer-like folk traditions from Bulgaria and abroad.
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  • Type: City with 78,300 residents
  • Description: city in Pernik municipality, Pernik oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Dimitrovo”, “Pernici”, “ГР.ПЕРНИК”, “Димитрово”, and “페르닉”
  • Postal code: 2300

Places of Interest

Highlights: Underground Mining Museum and History museum, Pernik.

Museum
Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Museum
Photo: Spiritia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pernik

Latitude
42.6092° or 42° 36′ 33″ north
Longitude
23.0309° or 23° 1′ 51″ east
Population
78,300
Elevation
751 metres (2,464 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BG PNZ
Open location code
8GJ5J25J+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058182
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
728330
Wiki­data ID
Q185289
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Pernik” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፐርኒክ”
  • Arabic: “برنيك”
  • Armenian: “Պեռնիկ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pernik”
  • Basque: “Pernik”
  • Belarusian: “Пернік”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрнік”
  • Bengali: “পের্নিক”
  • Bulgarian: “Перник”
  • Catalan: “Pernik”
  • Catalan: “Pèrnik”
  • Cebuano: “Pernik”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێرنیک”
  • Chechen: “Перник”
  • Chinese: “佩尔尼克”
  • Chinese: “佩爾尼克”
  • Church Slavic: “Пєрьникъ”
  • Croatian: “Pernik”
  • Czech: “Pernik”
  • Danish: “Pernik”
  • Dutch: “Pernik”
  • Esperanto: “Pernik”
  • Estonian: “Pernik”
  • Finnish: “Pernik”
  • French: “Pernik”
  • Galician: “Pernik”
  • German: “Pernik”
  • Greek: “Πέρνικ”
  • Hausa: “Pernik”
  • Hebrew: “פרניק”
  • Hindi: “पर्निक”
  • Hungarian: “Pernik”
  • Indonesian: “Pernik, Bulgaria”
  • Indonesian: “Pernik”
  • Interlingue: “Pernik”
  • Irish: “Pernik”
  • Italian: “Pernik”
  • Japanese: “ペルニク”
  • Javanese: “Pernik”
  • Kazakh: “Pernïk”
  • Kazakh: “Перник”
  • Kazakh: “پەرنىيك”
  • Kirghiz: “Перник”
  • Korean: “페르니크”
  • Lithuanian: “Pernikas”
  • Lombard: “Pernik”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pernik”
  • Macedonian: “Перник”
  • Malay: “Pernik”
  • Maltese: “Pernik”
  • Moksha: “Пэрник”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pernik (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pernik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pernik”
  • Oromo: “Pernik”
  • Ossetian: “Перник”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਰਨਿਕ”
  • Persian: “پرنیک”
  • Polish: “Pernik”
  • Portuguese: “Pernik”
  • Pushto: “پرنک”
  • Romanian: “Pernik”
  • Russian: “Перник”
  • Scots: “Pernik”
  • Serbian: “Pernik”
  • Serbian: “Перник”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pernik”
  • Silesian: “Pernik”
  • Sinhala: “පර්නික්, බල්ගේරියාව”
  • Slovak: “Pernik”
  • Slovenian: “Pernik”
  • Somali: “Pernik”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرنیک”
  • Spanish: “Pernik”
  • Swahili: “Pernik”
  • Swedish: “Pernik”
  • Tajik: “Перник”
  • Tatar: “Перник”
  • Thai: “เปร์นิก”
  • Turkish: “Pernik”
  • Ukrainian: “Перник”
  • Urdu: “پیرنک”
  • Uzbek: “Pernik”
  • Vietnamese: “Pernik”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pernik”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیرنک”
  • “Pernik”

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