Plzeň Region
Plzeň-City District
Plzeň

Pilsen

Pilsen is in , in the in . It is the home and birthplace of the Pilsener beer variety which is derived from the city's name.
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  • Type: City with 186,000 residents
  • Description: city in Czechia
  • Also known as: “Plzeň”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Doosan Arena and Cathedral of St. Bartholomew.

Stadium
Photo: Jakub Valeš, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, previously known as Stadion města Plzně, is a football stadium in Plzeň, . It is located in Štrunc Park, near the confluence of the and rivers.

Church
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The , originally the Church of St. Bartholomew, is a Gothic church located on the Main Square in Plzeň, . It was probably established together with the city around the year 1295.

Synagogue
Photo: Noebu, CC BY 2.5.
The Great Synagogue is a traditional Czech Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Plzeň, in the . The synagogue is the second largest synagogue in and fourth largest in the world.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jižní Předměstí and Východní Předměstí.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Pilsen

Latitude
49.7477° or 49° 44′ 52″ north
Longitude
13.3775° or 13° 22′ 39″ east
Population
186,000
Elevation
316 metres (1,037 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CZ PLZ
Open location code
8FXMP9XH+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32666229
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3068160
Wiki­data ID
Q43453
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pilsen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pilsen”
  • Afrikaans: “Plzeň”
  • Albanian: “Plzeň”
  • Arabic: “بلزن”
  • Arabic: “بيلزن”
  • Aragonese: “Plzeň”
  • Armenian: “Պլզեն”
  • Asturian: “Pilsen”
  • Asturian: “Plzeň”
  • Azerbaijani: “Plsen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Plzen”
  • Bashkir: “Пльзень”
  • Basque: “Pilsen”
  • Basque: “Plzeň”
  • Belarusian: “Плзэнь”
  • Belarusian: “Пльзень”
  • Bengali: “পজেন”
  • Bosnian: “Plzeň”
  • Breton: “Plzen”
  • Breton: “Plzeň”
  • Bulgarian: “Plzeň”
  • Bulgarian: “Пилзен”
  • Catalan: “Pilsen”
  • Catalan: “Plzeň”
  • Cebuano: “Pilsen”
  • Cebuano: “Plzeň”
  • Chechen: “Пльзень”
  • Chinese: “Plzeň”
  • Chinese: “柏辛”
  • Chinese: “比尔森”
  • Chinese: “皮爾森”
  • Croatian: “Plzeň”
  • Czech: “Pilsen”
  • Czech: “Plzeň”
  • Danish: “Pilsen”
  • Danish: “Pilzen”
  • Danish: “Plzen”
  • Danish: “Plzeň”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Plzeň”
  • Dutch: “Pilsen”
  • Dutch: “Pilzen”
  • Dutch: “Plzen”
  • Dutch: “Plzeň”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلزن”
  • Esperanto: “Pilseno”
  • Esperanto: “Pilzeno”
  • Esperanto: “Plzen”
  • Esperanto: “Plzeň”
  • Estonian: “Pilsen”
  • Estonian: “Plzen”
  • Estonian: “Plzeň”
  • Finnish: “Pilsen”
  • Finnish: “Plzen”
  • Finnish: “Plzeň”
  • French: “Pilsen”
  • French: “Plzen”
  • French: “Plzeň”
  • Galician: “Plzeň”
  • Georgian: “პლზენი”
  • German: “Pilsen”
  • German: “Plzeň”
  • Gothic: “𐍀𐌻𐌶𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌾𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Πίλζεν”
  • Greek: “Πίλσεν”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લિસેન”
  • Hebrew: “פילזן”
  • Hebrew: “פלזן”
  • Hindi: “प्लज़ेन”
  • Hungarian: “Pilsen”
  • Hungarian: “Pilzen”
  • Hungarian: “Plzen”
  • Hungarian: “Plzeň”
  • Icelandic: “Pilsen”
  • Icelandic: “Plzeň”
  • Ido: “Plzeň”
  • Indonesian: “Plzeň”
  • Interlingue: “Plzeň”
  • Irish: “Plzeň”
  • Italian: “Pilsen”
  • Italian: “Plzen”
  • Italian: “Plzeň”
  • Japanese: “ピルゼン”
  • Japanese: “プルゼニ”
  • Japanese: “プルゼニュ”
  • Javanese: “Pilzno”
  • Javanese: “Plzeň”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಲ್ಸೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Пльзен”
  • Kazakh: “Пльзень”
  • Kirghiz: “Пльзень”
  • Korean: “플젠”
  • Kurdish: “Pilsen”
  • Kurdish: “Plzeň”
  • Latin: “Pilsena”
  • Latin: “Pilsenum”
  • Latin: “Pilsna”
  • Latin: “Plzeň”
  • Latvian: “Pilsen”
  • Latvian: “Pilzene”
  • Latvian: “Plzeň”
  • Latvian: “Plzeņa”
  • Lithuanian: “Pilzenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Plzen”
  • Lombard: “Plzeň”
  • Low German: “Pilzen”
  • Low German: “Plzen”
  • Low German: “Plzeň”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Plzeň”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pilsen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Plzen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Plzeň”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Pãlzenj”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Plzeň”
  • Macedonian: “П’лзењ”
  • Macedonian: “Плзењ”
  • Malay: “Plzen”
  • Malay: “Plzeň”
  • Maltese: “Pilsen”
  • Maltese: “Plzen”
  • Maltese: “Plzeň”
  • Marathi: “पेलजाईन”
  • Marathi: “प्लझेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Plzeň”
  • Mingrelian: “პლზენი”
  • Moksha: “Плзэнь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plzeň (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plzeň”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pilsen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pilzen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plzen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plzeň”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pilsen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plzen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plzeň”
  • Norwegian: “Plzeň”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Plzeň”
  • Ossetian: “Пльзень”
  • Pampanga: “Plzeň”
  • Persian: “پلزن”
  • Persian: “پیلزن”
  • Picard: “Plzeň”
  • Piemontese: “Plzeň”
  • Polish: “Pilsen”
  • Polish: “Pilzno”
  • Polish: “Plzen”
  • Polish: “Plzeň”
  • Polish: “Powiat grodzki Pilzno”
  • Portuguese: “Pilsen”
  • Portuguese: “Plzen”
  • Portuguese: “Plzeň”
  • Pushto: “پلزن”
  • Pushto: “پلزېن”
  • Quechua: “Plzeň”
  • Romanian: “Pilsen”
  • Romanian: “Plzen”
  • Romanian: “Plzeň”
  • Russian: “Пилсен”
  • Russian: “Плзень”
  • Russian: “Пльзен”
  • Russian: “Пльзень”
  • Rusyn: “Плзень”
  • Scots: “Plzeň”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Plzeň”
  • Serbian: “Plzeň”
  • Serbian: “Плзен”
  • Serbian: “Плзењ-град”
  • Serbian: “Плзењ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Plzeň”
  • Silesian: “Plzeň”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ල්සෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Plzeň”
  • Slovenian: “Plzen”
  • Slovenian: “Plzeň”
  • Spanish: “Pilsen”
  • Spanish: “Plzen”
  • Spanish: “Plzeň”
  • Swahili: “Plzeň”
  • Swedish: “Pilsen”
  • Swedish: “Plzen”
  • Swedish: “Plzeň”
  • Tajik: “Плзен”
  • Tamil: “பலஜன்”
  • Tatar: “Плзен”
  • Tatar: “Пльзень”
  • Telugu: “ప్లెజెన్”
  • Thai: “ปิลเซน”
  • Thai: “เปิลเซน”
  • Thai: “เปิลแซ็ญ”
  • Turkish: “Pilsen”
  • Turkish: “Plzen”
  • Turkish: “Plzeň”
  • Ukrainian: “Плзень”
  • Ukrainian: “Пльзень”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Pilzeń”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Plzeň”
  • Urdu: “پلزین”
  • Uzbek: “Plzen”
  • Uzbek: “Plzeň”
  • Venetian: “Plzeň”
  • Veps: “Pl’zen‘”
  • Veps: “Pl’zen’”
  • Vietnamese: “Pilsen”
  • Vietnamese: “Plzen”
  • Vietnamese: “Plzeň”
  • Volapük: “Plzeň”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pilsen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Plzeň”
  • Welsh: “Pilsen”
  • Welsh: “Plzeň”
  • Western Frisian: “Pilsen”
  • Western Frisian: “Plzeň”
  • Western Panjabi: “پلزین”
  • Wu Chinese: “比尔森”
  • Yiddish: “פילזען”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮爾森”
  • “Plzeň”

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