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Postojna

Postojna is a town in the region of , pronounced in Slovenian as 'Post-oy-nah'.
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  • Type: Town with 9,100 residents
  • Description: city in Slovenia
  • Also known as: “Adelberg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Postojna Cave and Postojna railway station.

Cave
Photo: Lander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 24.34 km long karst system near Postojna, southwestern . It is the second-longest cave system in the country as well as one of its top tourism sites. The caves were created by the Pivka River.

Railway station
Photo: Ajznponar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a significant railway station in Postojna, . It is located on the main railway line between , and , .

Museum
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Veliki Otok and Stara Vas.

Village
Photo: fish tsoi, CC BY 2.0.
is a north of Postojna in the region of . The entrance to lies immediately east of the village.

Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small on the southern outskirts of Postojna in the region of .

Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small northwest of Postojna in the region of .

Postojna

Latitude
45.7753° or 45° 46′ 31″ north
Longitude
14.214° or 14° 12′ 50″ east
Population
9,100
Elevation
548 metres (1,798 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SI POS
Open location code
8FQPQ6G7+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28844011
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3192673
Wiki­data ID
Q15901
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Postojna” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Postojna”
  • Arabic: “بوستوجنا”
  • Arabic: “بوستوينا”
  • Aragonese: “Postojna”
  • Asturian: “Postoina”
  • Basque: “Postojna”
  • Belarusian: “Адэльбэрг”
  • Belarusian: “Постайна”
  • Bosnian: “Postojna”
  • Bulgarian: “Постойна”
  • Catalan: “Postojna”
  • Cebuano: “Postojna”
  • Chechen: “Постойна”
  • Chinese: “波斯托伊納”
  • Chinese: “波斯托伊纳”
  • Croatian: “Postojna”
  • Czech: “Postojna”
  • Danish: “Postojna”
  • Dutch: “Postojna”
  • Esperanto: “Postojna”
  • Estonian: “Postojna”
  • Finnish: “Postojna”
  • French: “Postojna”
  • Galician: “Postojna”
  • German: “Postojna”
  • German: “Postumia”
  • German: “SI-094”
  • German: “Adelsberg” (historical)
  • Greek: “Ποστόινα”
  • Greek: “Ποστόινια”
  • Hebrew: “פוסטוינה”
  • Hungarian: “Postojna”
  • Indonesian: “Postojna”
  • Italian: “Postumia Grotte”
  • Italian: “Postumia”
  • Japanese: “ポストイナ”
  • Korean: “포스토이나”
  • Latin: “Arae Postumae”
  • Latin: “Arae Postumiae”
  • Lithuanian: “Postoina”
  • Macedonian: “Постојна”
  • Moksha: “Постойна”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Postojna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Postojna”
  • Norwegian: “Postojna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Postojna”
  • Persian: “پستینا”
  • Persian: “پوستوینا”
  • Polish: “Postojna”
  • Portuguese: “Postojna”
  • Romanian: “Postojna”
  • Romanian: “Postumia”
  • Russian: “Постойна”
  • Serbian: “Постојна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Postojna”
  • Slovak: “Postojna”
  • Slovenian: “Postojna”
  • Spanish: “Postoina”
  • Spanish: “Postojna”
  • Swedish: “Postojna”
  • Tatar: “Постойна”
  • Thai: “ปอสโตยนา”
  • Turkish: “Postojna”
  • Ukrainian: “Постойна”
  • Urdu: “پوستوینا”
  • Vietnamese: “Postojna”
  • Welsh: “Postojna”

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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 “Postojna”. Photo: Donald Judge, CC BY 2.0.