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Istria County

Pula

Pula, also known as Pola, its Italian name, is the largest city in , western , and the seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the in western Croatia, with a population of 52,220 in 2021.
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  • Type: City with 52,200 residents
  • Description: city and settlement in Istria County, Croatia
  • Also known as: “Pluj”, “Pola”, and “Pula - Pola”
  • Postal code: 52100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pula Amphitheatre and Stadion Aldo Drosina.

Photo: Jeroen Komen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Amphitheatre in Pula is a Roman amphitheatre located in Pula, . It is the only remaining Roman amphitheatre to have four side towers entirely preserved.

Stadium
Photo: El-Diablo, CC0.
is a multi-use in Pula, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of NK Istra 1961 and formerly NK Istra.

Temple
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a well-preserved Roman temple in the city of Pula, . Dedicated to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, it was probably built during the emperor's lifetime at some point between 27 BC and his death in AD 14.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vintijan and Pješčana Uvala.

Village
is a village in the municipality of , in southern in .

Village
Photo: nikola pu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in the municipality of , in southern in .

Village
is a village in the municipality of , in southern in .

Pula

Latitude
44.8702° or 44° 52′ 13″ north
Longitude
13.8455° or 13° 50′ 44″ east
Population
52,200
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
PUY
United Nations Location Code
HR PUY
Open location code
8FPMVRCW+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1830216906
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3192224
Wiki­data ID
Q4656
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pula” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pula”
  • Albanian: “Pula”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πόλα”
  • Arabic: “بولا”
  • Armenian: “Պուլա”
  • Asturian: “Pula”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pula”
  • Bashkir: “Пула”
  • Basque: “Pula”
  • Belarusian: “Пула”
  • Bengali: “পোলা”
  • Bosnian: “Pula”
  • Breton: “Pula”
  • Bulgarian: “Пула”
  • Catalan: “Pula”
  • Cebuano: “Pula”
  • Central Kurdish: “پولا”
  • Chinese: “Pula”
  • Chinese: “普拉”
  • Croatian: “Pula”
  • Czech: “Pola”
  • Czech: “Pula”
  • Danish: “Pula”
  • Dutch: “Pula (Kroatie)”
  • Dutch: “Pula”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پولا”
  • Esperanto: “Pula”
  • Estonian: “Pula”
  • Finnish: “Polei”
  • Finnish: “Pula”
  • French: “Pula”
  • Galician: “Pula, Croacia”
  • Georgian: “პულა”
  • German: “Pula”
  • Greek: “Πούλα”
  • Gujarati: “પુલા”
  • Hebrew: “פולה”
  • Hindi: “पुला”
  • Hungarian: “Póla” (historical)
  • Hungarian: “Pula”
  • Icelandic: “Pula”
  • Indonesian: “Pula”
  • Irish: “Pula”
  • Istriot: “Puola”
  • Italian: “Pola”
  • Japanese: “プーラ”
  • Kannada: “ಪುಲಾ”
  • Korean: “풀라”
  • Kurdish: “Pula”
  • Latin: “Pietas Iulia”
  • Latin: “Pola”
  • Latvian: “Pula”
  • Lithuanian: “Pola”
  • Lithuanian: “Pula”
  • Lombard: “Pola”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pula”
  • Macedonian: “Пула”
  • Malay: “Pula”
  • Maltese: “Pola”
  • Maltese: “Pula”
  • Marathi: “पुला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pula”
  • Mingrelian: “პულა”
  • Moksha: “Пула”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pula”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pula”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pula”
  • Norwegian: “Pula”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pula”
  • Ossetian: “Пулæ”
  • Persian: “پولا”
  • Piemontese: “Pola”
  • Polish: “Pula”
  • Portuguese: “Pula”
  • Romanian: “Pola”
  • Romanian: “Pula, Croația”
  • Romanian: “Pula”
  • Russian: “Пула”
  • Sardinian: “Pola”
  • Scots: “Pula”
  • Serbian: “Pula”
  • Serbian: “Пула”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pula”
  • Silesian: “Pula”
  • Sinhala: “පුලා”
  • Slovak: “Pula”
  • Slovenian: “Pulj”
  • Southern Sotho: “Pula”
  • Spanish: “Pola”
  • Spanish: “Pula”
  • Swahili: “Pula”
  • Swedish: “Polei”
  • Swedish: “Pula”
  • Tajik: “Пула”
  • Tamil: “பூலா”
  • Tatar: “Пула”
  • Telugu: “పులా”
  • Thai: “ปูลา”
  • Thai: “พูลา”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Polei”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Pula”
  • Turkish: “Pola”
  • Turkish: “Pula”
  • Ukrainian: “Пула”
  • Urdu: “پولا”
  • Uzbek: “Pula (Xorvatiya)”
  • Uzbek: “Pula”
  • Venetian: “Pola”
  • Venetian: “Poła”
  • Veps: “Pul”
  • Vietnamese: “Pula”
  • Volapük: “Pula”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pula, Istria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pula”
  • Welsh: “Pula”
  • Wu Chinese: “普拉”
  • Xhosa: “Pula”
  • Yiddish: “פולא”
  • Yue Chinese: “普拉”
  • “Pula”

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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 Wikipedia page “Pula”. Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 4.0.