Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria, with about 2 million citizens. It is a dynamic European capital, distinguished by its unique combination of European and communist-style architecture as well as many beautiful Orthodox churches, including the grand Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the medieval frescos of Boyana Church.
- City with 1,290,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 562 metres (1,844 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code SOF
- Description: capital city of Bulgaria
- Postal code: 1000
- Also known as“Serdica”“Sofija”“Sredets”“Sredez”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and Vasil Levski National Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Largo and Ivan Vazov.
Sofia
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Latitude
42.6977° or 42° 41′ 52″ north
Longitude
23.3217° or 23° 19′ 18″ east
UN/LOCODE
BG SOF
Open location code
8GJ5M8XC+3M
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Sofia” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Sofia”
- Adyghe: “Софие”
- Afrikaans: “Sofia”
- Albanian: “Sofja”
- Amharic: “ሶፊያ”
- Arabic: “صوفيا”
- Aragonese: “Sofiya”
- Armenian: “Սոֆիա”
- Arpitan: “Sofia”
- Asturian: “Sofía”
- Avaric: “София”
- Azerbaijani: “Sofiya”
- Balinese: “Sofia”
- Bashkir: “София”
- Basque: “Sofia”
- Bavarian: “Sofia”
- Belarusian: “Сафія”
- Bengali: “সফিয়া”
- Bengali: “সোফিয়া”
- Betawi: “Sopiah”
- Bosnian: “Sofija”
- Breton: “Sofia”
- Bulgarian: “Сердика”
- Bulgarian: “София”
- Bulgarian: “Средец”
- Bulgarian: “Срѣдецъ”
- Bulgarian: “Столицата на България”
- Catalan: “Sofia”
- Catalan: “Sòfia”
- Cebuano: “Sofia (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Sofia”
- Cebuano: “Sofiya-Grad”
- Central Bikol: “Sofia”
- Central Kurdish: “سۆفیا”
- Chechen: “Софи”
- Chinese: “索菲亚”
- Chinese: “索菲亞”
- Chinese: “索非亚”
- Chinese: “索非亞”
- Church Slavic: “Софїꙗ”
- Chuvash: “Софи”
- Chuvash: “София”
- Cornish: “Sofia”
- Corsican: “Sofia”
- Crimean Tatar: “Sofiya”
- Croatian: “Sofija”
- Czech: “Sofia”
- Czech: “Sofie”
- Danish: “Sofia”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sofya”
- Dutch: “Sofia”
- Eastern Mari: “Софий”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صوفيا”
- Erzya: “София ош”
- Esperanto: “Sofio”
- Estonian: “Sofia”
- Extremaduran: “Sofia”
- Faroese: “Sofia”
- Fiji Hindi: “Sofia”
- Finnish: “Sofia”
- Finnish: “Sofija”
- French: “Sofia”
- Fulah: “Sofia”
- Gagauz: “Sofiya”
- Galician: “Sofía, Bulgaria”
- Galician: “Sofía”
- Georgian: “სოფია”
- German: “Serdica”
- German: “Sofia”
- German: “Sredez”
- Gothic: “𐍃𐍉𐍆𐌹𐌰”
- Greek: “Σόφια”
- Gujarati: “સોફિયા”
- Haitian: “Sofia”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sofia”
- Hausa: “Sofiya”
- Hawaiian: “Sofia”
- Hebrew: “סופיה”
- Hindi: “सोफिया”
- Hungarian: “Szeredőc”
- Hungarian: “Szófia”
- Icelandic: “Sófía”
- Ido: “Sofiya”
- Iloko: “Sofia”
- Inari Sami: “Sofia”
- Indonesian: “Sofia”
- Interlingua: “Sofia”
- Interlingue: “Sofia”
- Irish: “Sóifia”
- Italian: “Sofia”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Sofiya, Bulgieria”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Sofiya”
- Japanese: “スレデツ”
- Japanese: “セルディカ”
- Japanese: “ソフィア”
- Japanese: “トリアディツァ”
- Javanese: “Sofia”
- Jèrriais: “Sophie”
- Kabyle: “Sofia”
- Kalaallisut: “Sofia”
- Kannada: “ಸೋಫಿಯಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Sofiya”
- Kazakh: “Сердец”
- Kazakh: “Сердика”
- Kazakh: “София”
- Kazakh: “Триадица”
- Kinyarwanda: “Sofiya”
- Kirghiz: “София”
- Komering: “Sofia”
- Komi: “София”
- Korean: “소피아”
- Kotava: “Sofiya”
- Kurdish: “Sofia”
- Kurdish: “Sofya”
- Ladino: “Sofia”
- Latin: “Serdica”
- Latin: “Ulpia Serdica”
- Latvian: “Sofija”
- Lezghian: “София”
- Ligurian: “Sòfia”
- Limburgan: “Sofia”
- Lingala: “Sofia”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Sofia”
- Literary Chinese: “索菲亞”
- Lithuanian: “Sofija”
- Livvi: “Sofija”
- Lombard: “Sofia”
- Low German: “Sofia”
- Lower Sorbian: “Sofija”
- Luxembourgish: “Sofia”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Sofia”
- Macedonian: “Софија”
- Malagasy: “Sofia”
- Malay: “Sofia”
- Malayalam: “സോഫിയ”
- Maltese: “Serdica”
- Maltese: “Sofija”
- Maltese: “Sredets”
- Maltese: “Sredez”
- Manx: “Sofia”
- Maori: “Sofia”
- Marathi: “सोफिया”
- Mazanderani: “صوفیا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sofia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sofia”
- Minangkabau: “Sofia”
- Mingrelian: “სოფია”
- Moksha: “София”
- Mongolian: “Софи”
- Moroccan Arabic: “صوفيا”
- Nauru: “Sofia”
- Nepali: “सोफिया”
- Northern Frisian: “Sofia”
- Northern Luri: “صوفیه”
- Northern Luri: “صوٙفیە”
- Northern Sami: “Sofia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sofia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sofia”
- Norwegian: “Sofia”
- Novial: “Sofia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sòfia”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Serdica”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sofiburh”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wīsdōmburg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wisdomburh”
- Ossetian: “София”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਫ਼ੀਆ”
- Papiamento: “Sofia”
- Pennsylvania German: “Sofia”
- Persian: “صوفیه”
- Piemontese: “Sòfia”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sofia”
- Polish: “Sofia”
- Portuguese: “Sófia”
- Pushto: “صوفیه”
- Quechua: “Sofiya”
- Romanian: “Sofia”
- Romanian: “София”
- Romansh: “Sofia”
- Russia Buriat: “Софи”
- Russia Buriat: “София”
- Russian: “София”
- Russian: “Средец”
- Rusyn: “Софія”
- Sakizaya: “Suhuyya”
- Samoan: “Sofia”
- Samogitian: “Suofėjė”
- Santali: “ᱥᱳᱯᱷᱤᱭᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Sofia”
- Sardinian: “Sòfia”
- Saterfriesisch: “Sofia”
- Scots: “Sofia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sofia”
- Serbian: “Софија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sofija”
- Shona: “Sofia”
- Sicilian: “Sofia”
- Silesian: “Sofijo”
- Sindhi: “سوفيا”
- Sindhi: “صوفيا”
- Sinhala: “සොෆියා”
- Skolt Sami: “Sofia”
- Slovak: “Sofia”
- Slovenian: “Sofija”
- Somali: “Sofiya”
- South Azerbaijani: “صوفیه”
- Spanish: “Sofia”
- Spanish: “Sofía”
- Swahili: “Sofia”
- Swedish: “Sofia”
- Swedish: “Sofija”
- Swiss German: “Sofia”
- Tagalog: “Sofia”
- Tajik: “София”
- Talysh: “Sofija”
- Talysh: “Sofiya”
- Tamil: “சோஃபியா”
- Tamil: “சோஃவியா”
- Tamil: “சோபியா”
- Tamil: “ஸோஃபையா”
- Tatar: “Sofiä”
- Tatar: “София”
- Telugu: “సోఫియా”
- Thai: “โซเฟีย”
- Tibetan: “སོ་ཧྥི་ཡ།”
- Tok Pisin: “Sofia”
- Tumbuka: “Sofia”
- Turkish: “Sofya”
- Turkmen: “Sofiýa”
- Twi: “Sofia”
- Udmurt: “София”
- Uighur: “سوفىيە”
- Ukrainian: “Софія”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sofija”
- Urdu: “صوفیہ”
- Uzbek: “Sofiya”
- Venetian: “Sofia”
- Venetian: “Sòfia”
- Veps: “Sofii”
- Vietnamese: “Sofia”
- Vlaams: “Sofia”
- Vlax Romani: “Sofiya”
- Volapük: “Sofia”
- Volapük: “Sofiya”
- Võro: “Sofia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sofia”
- Welsh: “Sofia”
- Western Armenian: “Սոֆիա”
- Western Frisian: “Sofia”
- Western Panjabi: “صوفیہ”
- Wolof: “Sofiya”
- Wu Chinese: “索非亚”
- Yakut: “София”
- Yiddish: “סאפיע”
- Yoruba: “Sofia”
- Yue Chinese: “索菲亞”
- Zeeuws: “Sofia”
- Zulu: “i-Sofia”
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