Solingen
Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Solingen is world famous for its century old tradition of making knives and swords and you can still get a high quality blade here, but expect to pay good money for good quality.
- Type: City with 164,000 residents
- Description: city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “Klingenstadt”, “Kreisfreie Stadt Solingen”, “Solich (Noordrien-Wesfale)”, “Solich, NRW”, “Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia”, and “Solingen, NRW”
- Postal code: 42645
- Neighbors: Remscheid and Wuppertal
Places of Interest
Highlights: Museum Plagiarius and Solingen Mitte station.
Solingen Mitte station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Solingen-Zentral and Krahenhöhe.
Solingen
Latitude
51.1722° or 51° 10′ 20″ north
Longitude
7.0846° or 7° 5′ 5″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
229 metres (751 feet)
IATA airport code
ZIO
UN/LOCODE
DE SOL
Open location code
9F3953CM+VR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Solingen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Solingen”
- Arabic: “زولينغن”
- Aragonese: “Solingen”
- Armenian: “Զոլինգեն”
- Arpitan: “Solingen”
- Asturian: “Solingen”
- Azerbaijani: “Zolingen”
- Balinese: “Solingen”
- Basque: “Solingen”
- Bavarian: “Solingen”
- Belarusian: “Золінген”
- Bengali: “জোলিংএন”
- Bosnian: “Solingen”
- Breton: “Solingen”
- Bulgarian: “Золинген”
- Catalan: “Solingen”
- Cebuano: “Solingen (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Solingen”
- Central Kurdish: “سۆلینگن”
- Chinese: “索林根”
- Corsican: “Solingen”
- Croatian: “Solingen”
- Czech: “Solingen”
- Danish: “Solingen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Solingen”
- Dutch: “Solingen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زولينجن”
- Esperanto: “Solingen”
- Estonian: “Solingen”
- Finnish: “Solingen”
- French: “Solingen”
- Friulian: “Solingen”
- Galician: “Solingen”
- Georgian: “ზოლინგენი”
- German: “Solingen”
- Greek: “Ζόλινγκεν”
- Gujarati: “સોલિન્ગન”
- Hebrew: “זולינגן”
- Hindi: “ज़ोलिंगन”
- Hungarian: “Solingen”
- Icelandic: “Solingen”
- Ido: “Solingen”
- Indonesian: “Solingen”
- Interlingua: “Solingen”
- Interlingue: “Solingen”
- Irish: “Solingen”
- Italian: “Solingen”
- Japanese: “ゾーリンゲン”
- Jèrriais: “Solingen”
- Kannada: “ಸೋಲಿಂಜೆನ್ ,”
- Kazakh: “Золинген”
- Kirghiz: “Золинген”
- Kongo: “Solingen”
- Korean: “졸링겐”
- Kotava: “Solingen”
- Kurdish: “Solingen”
- Kurdish: “Zolîngin”
- Ladin: “Solingen”
- Latin: “Salingiacum”
- Latvian: “Zolingene”
- Ligurian: “Solingen”
- Limburgan: “Solich”
- Lithuanian: “Zolingenas”
- Low German: “Solingen”
- Lower Sorbian: “Solingen”
- Luxembourgish: “Solingen”
- Macedonian: “Золинген”
- Malagasy: “Solingen”
- Malay: “Solingen”
- Marathi: “सोलिन्गेन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Solingen”
- Minangkabau: “Solingen”
- Neapolitan: “Solingen”
- Northern Frisian: “Solingen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Solingen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Solingen”
- Norwegian: “Solingen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Solingen”
- Ossetian: “Золинген”
- Persian: “زولینگن”
- Picard: “Solingen”
- Piemontese: “Solingen”
- Polish: “Solingen”
- Portuguese: “Solingen”
- Romanian: “Solingen”
- Romansh: “Solingen”
- Russian: “Золинген”
- Sardinian: “Solingen”
- Saterfriesisch: “Solingen”
- Scots: “Solingen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Solingen”
- Serbian: “Solingen”
- Serbian: “Золинген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Solingen”
- Sicilian: “Solingen”
- Silesian: “Solingen”
- Sinhala: “සොලින්ජෙන්”
- Slovak: “Solingen”
- Slovenian: “Solingen”
- South Azerbaijani: “زولینقن”
- Spanish: “Solingen”
- Swahili: “Solingen”
- Swedish: “Solingen”
- Swiss German: “Solingen”
- Tajik: “Зулинген”
- Tamil: “சொலின்ஜென்”
- Tatar: “Золинген”
- Telugu: “సోలింగెన్”
- Thai: “โซลิงเงิน”
- Turkish: “Solingen”
- Ukrainian: “Золінген”
- Ukrainian: “Золінґен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Solingen”
- Urdu: “سولنگن”
- Urdu: “سولینجین”
- Venetian: “Solingen”
- Vietnamese: “Solingen”
- Vlaams: “Solingen”
- Volapük: “Solingen”
- Walloon: “Solingen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Solingen”
- Welsh: “Solingen”
- Western Frisian: “Solingen”
- Western Panjabi: “سولنگن”
- Wolof: “Solingen”
- Wu Chinese: “索林根”
- Yue Chinese: “索林根”
- Zulu: “Solingen”
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