Pernik
Pernik is an industrial city in Central Western Bulgaria, close to the capital Sofia. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 78,300 residents
- Description: city in Pernik municipality, Pernik oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Dimitrovo”
- Postal code: 2300
Places of Interest
Highlights include History museum, Pernik.
Pernik
- Categories: municipality seat, oblast seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Pernik, Bulgarian Shopluk, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.6092° or 42° 36′ 33″ northLongitude
23.0309° or 23° 1′ 51″ eastPopulation
78,300Elevation
751 metres (2,464 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG PNZOpen location code
8GJ5J25J+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 31058182OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Pernik” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برنيك”
- Armenian: “Պեռնիկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Pernik”
- Basque: “Pernik”
- Belarusian: “Пернік”
- Belarusian: “Пэрнік”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.ПЕРНИК”
- Bulgarian: “Димитрово”
- 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”
- German: “Pernik”
- Greek: “Πέρνικ”
- Hebrew: “פרניק”
- Hungarian: “Pernik”
- Indonesian: “Pernik, Bulgaria”
- Indonesian: “Pernik”
- Interlingue: “Pernik”
- Irish: “Pernik”
- Italian: “Pernik”
- Japanese: “ペルニク”
- Kazakh: “Pernïk”
- Kazakh: “Перник”
- Kazakh: “پەرنىيك”
- Korean: “페르니크”
- Korean: “페르닉”
- Lithuanian: “Pernik”
- Lithuanian: “Pernikas”
- Lombard: “Pernik”
- Macedonian: “Перник”
- Maltese: “Pernik”
- Moksha: “Пэрник”
- Northern Frisian: “Pernik (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Pernik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pernik”
- Ossetian: “Перник”
- Persian: “پرنیک”
- Polish: “Pernik”
- Portuguese: “Pernik”
- Romanian: “Pernici”
- Romanian: “Pernik”
- Russian: “Димитрово”
- Russian: “Перник”
- Scots: “Pernik”
- Serbian: “Pernik”
- Serbian: “Перник”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pernik”
- Slovak: “Pernik”
- Slovenian: “Pernik”
- South Azerbaijani: “پرنیک”
- Spanish: “Pernik”
- Swedish: “Pernik”
- Tatar: “Перник”
- Thai: “Pernik”
- Thai: “เปร์นิก”
- Turkish: “Pernik”
- Ukrainian: “Перник”
- Ukrainian: “Пернік”
- Urdu: “پیرنک”
- Vietnamese: “Pernik”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pernik”
- Western Panjabi: “پیرنک”
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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 “Pernik”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.