Bulgarian Shopluk
Sofia-grad
Municipality of the Capital

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of , 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.
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  • Type: City with 1,290,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Serdica”, “Sofija”, “Sredets”, and “Sredez”
  • Postal codes: 1000 and 1000
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and Vasil Levski National Stadium.

Church
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St. is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of . Built in the Neo-Byzantine style, it serves as the cathedral church of the Patriarch of Bulgaria and it is one of the largest Christian church buildings by volume in the world.

Stadium
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, named after national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 43,230 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina.

Library
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The is the national library of , situated in the capital city of Sofia. Founded on 4 April 1878, the library received the status of Bulgarian National Library three years later and the Bulgarian National Revival Archive was merged into it in 1924.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Largo and Ivan Vazov.

Locality
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The is an architectural ensemble of three Socialist Classicism buildings around Independence Square in central Sofia, the capital of . It was designed and built in the 1950s with the intention of becoming the city's new representative centre.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Sofia

Latitude
42.6977° or 42° 41′ 52″ north
Longitude
23.3217° or 23° 19′ 18″ east
Population
1,290,000
Elevation
562 metres (1,844 feet)
IATA airport code
SOF
United Nations Location Code
BG SOF
Open location code
8GJ5M8XC+3M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1700083447
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
727011
Wiki­data ID
Q472
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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: “Sofia”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “Sophie”
  • 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): “Wīsdōmburg”
  • Ossetian: “София”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਫ਼ੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Sofia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Sofia”
  • Persian: “صوفیه”
  • Piemontese: “Sòfia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sofia”
  • Polish: “Sofia”
  • Portuguese: “Sófia”
  • 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”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Sofia”
  • Scots: “Sofia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sofia”
  • Serbian: “Софија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sofija”
  • Shona: “Sofia”
  • Sicilian: “Sofia”
  • Silesian: “Sofijo”
  • Sindhi: “سوفيا”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “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”
  • “Sofia”
  • “Sofiya”
  • “Suofėjė”
  • “София”

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