Pristina

Pristina, the capital and largest city of : it is messy, with centuries-old Ottoman heritage competing with communist designs and post-communist architectural buildings.
  • City with about 227,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 650 metres (2,130 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code PRN
  • Description: capital and the largest city of Kosovo
  • Also known as
    “Prishtina”
    “Prishtinë”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kosovo National Library ‘Pjetër Bogdani’ and Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The National Library of Kosovo is the highest library…
Public building
The Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts is the national academy of .
The is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Pristina, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bregu i Diellit and Matiçan.
Cradel, Public domain.
Suburb
also informally known as Kodra…
is a village in Pristina municipality.
is a suburb.
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Latitude
42.6639° or 42° 39′ 50″ north
Longitude
21.1641° or 21° 9′ 51″ east
UN/LOCODE
RS PRN
Open location code
8GJ3M577+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pristina” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pristina”
  • Albanian: “Prishtina”
  • Albanian: “Prishtinë”
  • Amharic: “ፕርሽቲና”
  • Arabic: “برشتين”
  • Arabic: “برشتينا”
  • Arabic: “برشتينة”
  • Arabic: “بريشتينا”
  • Aragonese: “Pristina”
  • Armenian: “Պրիշտինա”
  • Asturian: “Prishtina”
  • Asturian: “Prishtinë”
  • Asturian: “Priština”
  • Asturian: “Prixtina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Priştina”
  • Bashkir: “Приштина”
  • Basque: “Prishtina”
  • Basque: “Prishtinë”
  • Basque: “Priština”
  • Belarusian: “Прышціна”
  • Belarusian: “Сталіца Косава”
  • Bengali: “প্রিস্টিনা”
  • Betawi: “Pristinah”
  • Bosnian: “Priština”
  • Breton: “Prishtina”
  • Breton: “Priština”
  • Bulgarian: “Прищина”
  • Bulgarian: “Прищинско”
  • Catalan: “Prishtina”
  • Catalan: “Priština”
  • Cebuano: “Pristina”
  • Central Bikol: “Pristina”
  • Central Kurdish: “پرشتینا”
  • Chechen: “Приштина”
  • Chinese: “普里什蒂納”
  • Chinese: “普里什蒂纳 / 普里斯提納”
  • Chinese: “普里什蒂纳”
  • Chinese: “普里斯提納”
  • Church Slavic: “Прищина”
  • Cornish: “Prishtina”
  • Croatian: “Prishtinë”
  • Croatian: “Priština”
  • Czech: “Prishtina”
  • Czech: “Prishtinë”
  • Czech: “Priština”
  • Danish: “Prishtina”
  • Danish: “Prishtinë”
  • Danish: “Priština”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Priştina”
  • Dutch: “Prishtina”
  • Dutch: “Prishtinë”
  • Dutch: “Prisjtina”
  • Dutch: “Priština”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريشتينا”
  • Esperanto: “Priština”
  • Esperanto: “Priŝtino”
  • Estonian: “Prishtina”
  • Estonian: “Priština”
  • Finnish: “Prishtina”
  • Finnish: “Priština”
  • French: “Prishtina”
  • French: “Prishtinë”
  • French: “Priština”
  • French: “Quartier de Dardania”
  • Galician: “Priština”
  • Georgian: “პრიშტინა”
  • German: “Prischtina”
  • German: “Prishtina”
  • German: “Prishtinë”
  • German: “Pristina”
  • Greek: “Πρίστινα”
  • Hebrew: “פרישטינה”
  • Hindi: “प्रिस्टिना”
  • Hungarian: “Prishtina”
  • Hungarian: “Prishtinë”
  • Hungarian: “Priština”
  • Icelandic: “Pristína”
  • Ido: “Prishtina”
  • Indonesian: “Priština”
  • Interlingua: “Pristina”
  • Interlingue: “Priština”
  • Irish: “Prishtina”
  • Irish: “Prishtinë”
  • Irish: “Pristine”
  • Italian: “Prishtina”
  • Italian: “Prishtinë”
  • Italian: “Priština”
  • Japanese: “プリシュティナ”
  • Javanese: “Priština”
  • Kabyle: “Pristina”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರಿಸ್ಟೀನೆ”
  • Karekare: “Pristina”
  • Kazakh: “Приштина”
  • Komering: “Pristina”
  • Korean: “프리슈티나”
  • Korean: “프리슈티너”
  • Korean: “프리스티나”
  • Kotava: “Prishtina”
  • Kurdish: “Priştîna”
  • Latin: “Pristina”
  • Latvian: “Priština”
  • Limburgan: “Pristina”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pristina”
  • Lithuanian: “Priština”
  • Low German: “Priština”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Priština”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pristina”
  • Macedonian: “Приштина”
  • Malagasy: “Pristina”
  • Malay: “Priština”
  • Malayalam: “പ്രിസ്റ്റിന”
  • Maltese: “Prixtina”
  • Manx: “Prishtina”
  • Manx: “Priština”
  • Marathi: “प्रिस्टिना”
  • Mazanderani: “پریشتینا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Priština”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Prishtinë”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Priština”
  • Minangkabau: “Pristina”
  • Mongolian: “Приштина”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پريستينا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پريشتينا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Priština”
  • Northern Luri: “پریشتینا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prishtina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prishtinë”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Priština”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Priştine”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prishtina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prishtinë”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Priština”
  • Norwegian: “Prishtina”
  • Norwegian: “Priština”
  • Novial: “Pristina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prishtina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prishtinë”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Priština”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pristford”
  • Ossetian: “Приштинæ”
  • Ossetian: “Приштина”
  • Panjabi: “ਪ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਤੀਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Pristina”
  • Persian: “پرشتینه”
  • Persian: “پریشتینا”
  • Piemontese: “Prìstina”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Prishtina”
  • Polish: “Priština”
  • Polish: “Prisztina”
  • Portuguese: “Prishtinë”
  • Portuguese: “Priština”
  • Pushto: “پریشتینا”
  • Romanian: “Priština”
  • Russian: “Приштина (город)”
  • Russian: “Приштина”
  • Russian: “столица Косова”
  • Samoan: “Pristina”
  • Samogitian: “Prėštėna”
  • Sardinian: “Pristina”
  • Scots: “Pristina”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Prishtina”
  • Serbian: “Prishtina”
  • Serbian: “Prishtinë”
  • Serbian: “Priština”
  • Serbian: “Приштина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prishtinë”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Priština”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Приштина”
  • Shona: “Pristina”
  • Sicilian: “Pristina”
  • Silesian: “Prisztina”
  • Sindhi: “پرسٽينا”
  • Slovak: “Prishtinë”
  • Slovak: “Priština”
  • Slovenian: “Prishtina”
  • Slovenian: “Prishtinë”
  • Slovenian: “Priština”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پریشتینا”
  • Spanish: “Prishtina”
  • Spanish: “Prishtinë”
  • Spanish: “Priština”
  • Swahili: “Prishtina”
  • Swedish: “Prischtina”
  • Swedish: “Prishtina”
  • Swedish: “Prishtinë”
  • Swedish: “Prisjtina”
  • Swedish: “Priština”
  • Swiss German: “Pristina”
  • Talysh: “Priština”
  • Tamil: “பிரிஸ்டினா”
  • Tatar: “Приштина”
  • Thai: “Pristina”
  • Thai: “พริชตีนา”
  • Thai: “พริสตีนา”
  • Tibetan: “པི་རི་སི་ཊི་ན།”
  • Tumbuka: “Pristina”
  • Turkish: “Pazar-ı Priştine”
  • Turkish: “Piriştina”
  • Turkish: “Prishtina”
  • Turkish: “Priština”
  • Turkish: “Priştine”
  • Udmurt: “Приштина”
  • Ukrainian: “Приштина”
  • Ukrainian: “Пріштіна”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Priština”
  • Urdu: “Pristina”
  • Urdu: “پرشتینہ”
  • Urdu: “پریشتینا”
  • Uzbek: “Prishtina”
  • Venetian: “Pristina”
  • Veps: “Prištin”
  • Vietnamese: “Prishtina”
  • Vietnamese: “Priština”
  • Vlaams: “Pristina”
  • Vlax Romani: “Pristina”
  • Volapük: “Prijtina”
  • Volapük: “Priština”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Priština”
  • Welsh: “Prishtina”
  • Welsh: “Priština”
  • Western Armenian: “Փրիշթինա”
  • Western Frisian: “Pristina”
  • Western Panjabi: “پرسٹینا”
  • Western Panjabi: “پریسٹینا”
  • Western Panjabi: “پریسٹینہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “普里什蒂纳”
  • Yakut: “Приштина”
  • Yoruba: “Pristina”
  • Yue Chinese: “普里什蒂納”
  • Zulu: “i-Pristina”

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