Piran
Piran is a resort town in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. A bilingual city, with population speaking both Slovene and Italian, Piran is known for its medieval architecture, with narrow streets and compact houses.
- Type: Town with 3,790 residents
- Description: coastal town of Slovenia
- Also known as: “Grad Piran”, “Piran / Pirano”, “Piran Slofenia”, “Pirian”, and “ਪੀਰਾਨੋ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tartini Square and Municipal House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portorož and Lucija.
Lucija
Suburb
Strunjan
Village
Piran
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Coast and Karst, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
45.5285° or 45° 31′ 43″ north
Longitude
13.5684° or 13° 34′ 6″ east
Population
3,790
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SI PIR
Open location code
8FQMGHH9+99
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Piran” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Piran”
- Albanian: “Piran”
- Amharic: “ፒራን”
- Arabic: “بيران”
- Aragonese: “Piran”
- Armenian: “Պիրան”
- Asturian: “Piran”
- Azerbaijani: “Piran”
- Basque: “Piran”
- Belarusian: “Піран”
- Bengali: “পিরান”
- Bosnian: “Piran”
- Bulgarian: “Пиран”
- Catalan: “Piran”
- Cebuano: “Piran (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Piran”
- Chechen: “Пиран”
- Chinese: “皮兰”
- Croatian: “Piran”
- Czech: “Piran”
- Danish: “Piran”
- Dutch: “Piran”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيران”
- Esperanto: “Piran”
- Estonian: “Piran”
- Finnish: “Piran”
- French: “Piran”
- Galician: “Piran”
- Georgian: “პირანი”
- German: “Piran”
- Greek: “Πιράν”
- Gujarati: “પિરાન”
- Hausa: “Piran”
- Hebrew: “פיראן”
- Hindi: “पिरान”
- Hungarian: “Piran”
- Icelandic: “Píran”
- Indonesian: “Piran, Slovenia”
- Indonesian: “Piran”
- Irish: “Piran”
- Italian: “Pirano”
- Japanese: “ピラン”
- Javanese: “Piran”
- Kannada: “ಪಿರಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Пиран”
- Kirghiz: “Пиран”
- Korean: “피란”
- Latin: “Piranum”
- Latin: “Pyrrhanum”
- Latvian: “Pirana”
- Lithuanian: “Piranas”
- Lombard: “Piran”
- Luxembourgish: “Piran”
- Macedonian: “Пиран”
- Malay: “Piran”
- Maltese: “Piran”
- Marathi: “पिरान”
- Moksha: “Пиран”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piran”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piran”
- Norwegian: “Piran”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Piran”
- Oromo: “Piran”
- Panjabi: “ਪਿਰਾਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਪੀਰਾਨ”
- Persian: “پیران”
- Polish: “Piran (miasto)”
- Polish: “Piran”
- Portuguese: “Piran”
- Pushto: “بيران”
- Romanian: “Piran”
- Russian: “Пиран”
- Scots: “Piran”
- Serbian: “Пиран”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Piran”
- Sinhala: “පිරන්”
- Slovak: “Piran”
- Slovenian: “Občina Piran”
- Slovenian: “Piran”
- Somali: “Piran”
- Spanish: “Piran”
- Swahili: “Piran”
- Swedish: “Piran”
- Tajik: “Пиран”
- Tamil: “பிரான்”
- Tatar: “Пиран”
- Telugu: “పిరాన్”
- Thai: “ปิราน”
- Turkish: “Piran”
- Ukrainian: “Пиран”
- Urdu: “پیران”
- Uzbek: “Piran”
- Venetian: “Piràn”
- Vietnamese: “Piran”
- Welsh: “Piran”
- “Piran”
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