Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Sarajevo Region

Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the capital of , and its largest city. Sarajevo is very tourist friendly, especially pedestrian area in the Old Town in the centre of the city.
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  • Type: City with 271,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Also known as: “Bosna-Sarai”, “Bosna-Serai”, “City of Sarajevo”, and “Vrh Bosna”
Photo: simic.dario, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Niegodzisie, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Koševo City Stadium and War childhood museum.

Stadium
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Koševo Stadium, also Koševo Olympic Stadium or Stadium Asim Ferhatović - Hase is a multi-purpose stadium located in the neighborhood of Sarajevo, .

Museum
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The is a historical museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina that opened in January 2017. The museum presents the experiences of children who lived through the war in Bosnia, told through objects, video testimonies, and excerpts from oral histories.

Theater building
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The is the largest theatre in Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the most important cultural institutions in Southeastern Europe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kobilja Glava and Baščaršija.

Village
is a village in municipality, near Sarajevo, , .

Suburb
Photo: Dark Apostrophe, Public domain.
is Sarajevo's old bazaar and the historical and cultural center of the city. was built in the 15th century when Isa-beg Ishaković founded the city.

Town
Photo: Marko Sarajevo, CC BY 3.0 rs.
is an urban neighborhood of the city of Istočno Sarajevo, , . The administrative, business, cultural and sports center of the Istočno Sarajevo.

Sarajevo

Latitude
43.8571° or 43° 51′ 26″ north
Longitude
18.4126° or 18° 24′ 45″ east
Population
271,000
Elevation
509 metres (1,670 feet)
IATA airport code
SJJ
United Nations Location Code
BA SJJ
Open location code
8FMWVC47+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2021709163
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3191281
Wiki­data ID
Q11194
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Sarajevo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sarajevo”
  • Afrikaans: “Sarajevo”
  • Albanian: “Sarajeva”
  • Amharic: “ሳራዬቮ”
  • Arabic: “سراييفو”
  • Aragonese: “Sarajevo”
  • Armenian: “Սարաևո”
  • Arpitan: “Sarajevo”
  • Asturian: “Sarayevo”
  • Asturian: “Sarayevu”
  • Avaric: “Сараево”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sarayevo”
  • Balinese: “Sarajévo”
  • Bashkir: “Сараево”
  • Basque: “Sarajevo”
  • Belarusian: “Сараева”
  • Bengali: “সারায়েভো”
  • Betawi: “Sarayéwo”
  • Bosnian: “Grad Sarajevo”
  • Bosnian: “Sarajevo”
  • Breton: “Sarajevo”
  • Bulgarian: “Сараево”
  • Burmese: “ဆာရာယေဗိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Sarajevo”
  • Cebuano: “Sarajevo (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Sarajevo”
  • Central Bikol: “Sarajevo”
  • Central Kurdish: “سارایێڤۆ”
  • Chechen: “Сараево”
  • Chinese: “Sarajevo”
  • Chinese: “塞拉耶佛”
  • Chinese: “萨拉热窝”
  • Chinese: “薩拉熱窩”
  • Church Slavic: “Сараѥво”
  • Chuvash: “Сараево”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sarayevo”
  • Croatian: “Sarajevo”
  • Czech: “Sarajevo”
  • Danish: “Sarajevo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sarayevo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Serayevo”
  • Dutch: “Sarajevo”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сараево”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساراييفو”
  • Erzya: “Сараево ош”
  • Esperanto: “Sarajevo”
  • Estonian: “Sarajevo”
  • Extremaduran: “Sarajevu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sarajevo”
  • Finnish: “Sarajevo”
  • French: “Sarajevo”
  • Fulah: “Sarayevo”
  • Galician: “Saraxevo”
  • Georgian: “სარაევო”
  • German: “Sarajevo”
  • German: “Sarajewo”
  • German: “Saraybosna”
  • Greek: “Σαράγεβο”
  • Greek: “Σαραγιεβο”
  • Greek: “Σαράγιεβο”
  • Gujarati: “સારાજેવો”
  • Haitian: “Sarayevo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sarajevo”
  • Hausa: “Sarajevo”
  • Hebrew: “סרייבו”
  • Hindi: “सराएवो”
  • Hindi: “साराजेवो”
  • Hindi: “सारायेवो”
  • Hungarian: “Sarajevo”
  • Hungarian: “Szarajevó”
  • Hungarian: “Сарајево”
  • Icelandic: “Sarajevo”
  • Icelandic: “Sarajevó”
  • Ido: “Sarajevo”
  • Iloko: “Sarajevo”
  • Inari Sami: “Sarajevo”
  • Indonesian: “Sarajevo”
  • Interlingua: “Sarajevo”
  • Interlingue: “Sarajevo”
  • Irish: “Sairéavó”
  • Italian: “Saraievo”
  • Italian: “Sarajevo”
  • Japanese: “サライェヴォ”
  • Japanese: “サラエヴォ”
  • Japanese: “サラエボ”
  • Javanese: “Sarajevo”
  • Kabyle: “Sarajevo”
  • Kannada: “ಸರಾಜೆವೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾರಯೇವೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Saraevo”
  • Kazakh: “Сараево”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Sarajevo”
  • Kirghiz: “Сараево”
  • Komering: “Sarajevo”
  • Korean: “사라예보”
  • Kotava: “Sarajevo”
  • Kurdish: “Sarayevo”
  • Ladino: “Sarajevo”
  • Latin: “Saraglium”
  • Latin: “Seraium”
  • Latin: “Vrhbosna”
  • Latvian: “Sarajeva”
  • Ligurian: “Sarajèvo”
  • Ligurian: “Sarajêvo”
  • Limburgan: “Sarajevo”
  • Lingala: “Sarajevo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sarajevo”
  • Lithuanian: “Sarajevas”
  • Livvi: “Sarajevo”
  • Lombard: “Sarajevo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sarajewo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sarajevo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sarajevo”
  • Macedonian: “Сараево”
  • Malagasy: “Sarajevo”
  • Malay: “Sarajevo”
  • Malayalam: “സരയാവോ”
  • Maltese: “Sarajevo”
  • Manx: “Sarajevo”
  • Maori: “Sarajevo”
  • Marathi: “सारायेव्हो”
  • Mazanderani: “سارایوو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sarajevo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sarajevo”
  • Minangkabau: “Sarajevo”
  • Mingrelian: “სარაევო”
  • Moksha: “Сараева”
  • Moksha: “Сараево”
  • Mongolian: “Сараево”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ساراييڤو”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صاراييڤو”
  • Nauru: “Sarajevo”
  • Navajo: “Naatʼáaniikin”
  • Neapolitan: “Sarajevo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sarajevo”
  • Northern Luri: “سارایه وو”
  • Northern Sami: “Sarajevo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sarajevo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sarajevo”
  • Norwegian: “Sarajevo”
  • Novial: “Sarajevo”
  • Nyanja: “Sarajevo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sarajevo”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Saragefo”
  • Oriya: “ସାରାୟେଭୋ”
  • Ossetian: “Сараево”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਰਾਯੇਵੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Sarajevo”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Sarajevo”
  • Persian: “سارایوو”
  • Picard: “Sarajevo”
  • Piemontese: “Sarajevo”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sarajevo”
  • Polish: “Sarajewo”
  • Portuguese: “Saraievo”
  • Portuguese: “Sarajevo”
  • Portuguese: “Serajevo”
  • Pushto: “سارایوو”
  • Quechua: “Sarajevo”
  • Romanian: “Saraievo”
  • Romanian: “Sarajevo”
  • Russian: “Балканский Иерусалим”
  • Russian: “Европейский Иерусалим”
  • Russian: “Сараево”
  • Rusyn: “Сараєво”
  • Samoan: “Sarajevo”
  • Samogitian: “Sarajevs”
  • Sardinian: “Sarajevo”
  • Scots: “Sarajevo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sarajevo”
  • Serbian: “SA”
  • Serbian: “Sarajevo”
  • Serbian: “Рајвоса”
  • Serbian: “Сарајево”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sarajevo”
  • Shona: “Sarajevo”
  • Sicilian: “Sarajevu”
  • Silesian: “Sarajewo”
  • Sindhi: “سرائيوو”
  • Sinhala: “sarajevo”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sarajevo”
  • Slovak: “Sarajevo”
  • Slovenian: “Sarajevo”
  • Somali: “Sarajevo”
  • Spanish: “Sarajevo (Bosnia y Herzegovina)”
  • Spanish: “Sarajevo”
  • Swahili: “Sarayevo”
  • Swedish: “Sarajevo”
  • Swiss German: “Sarajevo”
  • Tagalog: “Sarajevo”
  • Tajik: “Сараево”
  • Talysh: “Sarajevo”
  • Talysh: “Sarayevo”
  • Tamil: “சராஜேவோ”
  • Tamil: “சாரயேவோ”
  • Tatar: “Сараево”
  • Telugu: “సారయోవో”
  • Thai: “ซาราเยโว”
  • Tibetan: “ས་ར་ཇི་བོ།”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Sarajevo”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sarajevo”
  • Tumbuka: “Sarajevo”
  • Turkish: “Saraybosna”
  • Udmurt: “Сараево”
  • Uighur: “Sarayéwo”
  • Uighur: “سارايېۋو”
  • Ukrainian: “Сараєво”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sarajewo”
  • Urdu: “سرائیوو”
  • Uzbek: “Sarayevo”
  • Venetian: “Sarajevo”
  • Veps: “Sarajevo”
  • Vietnamese: “Sarajevo”
  • Vlaams: “Sarajevo”
  • Vlax Romani: “Sarajevo”
  • Volapük: “Sarajevo”
  • Võro: “Sarajevo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sarajevo”
  • Welsh: “Sarajevo”
  • Western Frisian: “Sarajevo”
  • Western Panjabi: “ساراجیوو”
  • Western Panjabi: “سرائیۆو”
  • Wolof: “Saarayego”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨拉热窝”
  • Yakut: “Сараево”
  • Yiddish: “סאראיעווא”
  • Yoruba: “Sarajevo”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩拉熱窩”
  • Zulu: “i-Sarajevo”
  • “ma tomo Salajepo”
  • “Sarajevo”
  • “Sarajevs”
  • “Sarayevo”

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