Rakovski
Rakovski is a town in Central South Bulgaria, not far from Plovdiv. It's the largest predominantly Roman Catholic town in Bulgaria and home to several beautiful Catholic churches.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,600 residents
- Description: city in Rakovski municipality, Plovdiv oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “General Nikolaevo”
- Postal code: 4150
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bulgaria Square in Rakovski.
Rakovski
- Categories: municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Rakovski, Plovdiv, Upper Thracian Plain, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.2873° or 42° 17′ 14″ northLongitude
24.966° or 24° 57′ 57″ eastPopulation
15,600Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)United Nations Location Code
BG RAKOpen location code
8GJ67XP8+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 273488846OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Rakovski” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ռակովսկի”
- Bulgarian: “Генерал Николаево”
- Bulgarian: “ГР.РАКОВСКИ”
- Bulgarian: “Калъчлии”
- Bulgarian: “Раковски”
- Catalan: “Rakovski”
- Cebuano: “Rakovski”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕاکۆڤسکی، بولگاریا”
- Chinese: “拉科夫斯基”
- Czech: “Rakovski”
- Dutch: “Rakovski”
- Esperanto: “Rakovski”
- Finnish: “Rakovski”
- French: “Rakovski”
- German: “Rakowski”
- Hebrew: “ראקובסקי”
- Irish: “Rakovski”
- Italian: “Rakovski”
- Japanese: “ラコヴスキ”
- Latvian: “Rakovski”
- Lithuanian: “Rakovskis”
- Macedonian: “Раковски (град)”
- Macedonian: “Раковски”
- Ossetian: “Раковски (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Раковски”
- Persian: “راکوفسکی”
- Polish: “Rakowski”
- Portuguese: “Rakovski”
- Romanian: “Rakovski”
- Russian: “Раковски”
- Serbian: “Раковски”
- South Azerbaijani: “راکوسکی”
- Spanish: “Rakovski”
- Swedish: “Rakovski”
- Tatar: “Раковски”
- Turkish: “Kılıçlı”
- Turkish: “Rakovski”
- Ukrainian: “Раковський”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rakovski”
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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 “Rakovski”. Photo: Isip2 westboro, Public domain.