Sopron

Sopron is a city in , close to the border, with a population of about 62,000. The town is officially bilingual, and its historical German language name is Ödenburg.
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  • Type: Town with 61,600 residents
  • Description: city in Hungary
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Firewatch Tower and Old Synagogue (Sopron).

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Museum
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is a museum.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harka and Fertőrákos.

Village
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is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron County, . is situated 5 km south of Sopron.

Village
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is a village in the county of Győr-Moson-Sopron in . In 2025 it had a population of 2,473. It is located at, about 10 km from Sopron, near Lake Fertő and the border. is situated 6 km northeast of Sopron.

Suburb
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, also known as Bánfalva, is a former that is part of the city of Sopron, Hungary, since 1950. It is also called Kertváros or Sopron-Kertváros. is situated 3½ km west of Sopron.

Sopron

Latitude
47.6803° or 47° 40′ 49″ north
Longitude
16.5983° or 16° 35′ 54″ east
Population
61,600
Elevation
217 metres (712 feet)
United Nations Location Code
HU SOP
Open location code
8FVRMHJX+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25913119
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3045190
Wiki­data ID
Q168648
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Sopron” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sopron”
  • Arabic: “شوبرون”
  • Aragonese: “Sopron”
  • Armenian: “Շոպրոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şopron”
  • Balinese: “Sopron”
  • Basque: “Sopron”
  • Bavarian: “Ödenburg”
  • Belarusian: “Шопран”
  • Breton: “Sopron”
  • Breton: “Šopron”
  • Bulgarian: “Шопрон”
  • Catalan: “Odenburg”
  • Catalan: “Scarabantia”
  • Catalan: “Scarbantia”
  • Catalan: “Sopron”
  • Cebuano: “Sopron”
  • Chinese: “Sopron”
  • Chinese: “索普朗”
  • Chinese: “肖普朗”
  • Croatian: “Šopron”
  • Czech: “Sopron”
  • Czech: “Šopron”
  • Czech: “Šoproň”
  • Czech: “Soprontum”
  • Danish: “Sopron”
  • Dutch: “Odenburg”
  • Dutch: “Sopron”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شوبرون”
  • Esperanto: “Sopron”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝoprono”
  • Estonian: “Scarbantia”
  • Estonian: “Sopron”
  • Finnish: “Sopron”
  • French: “Sopron”
  • Galician: “Sopron”
  • Georgian: “შოპრონი”
  • German: “HU-SN”
  • German: “Ödenburg”
  • German: “Oedenburg”
  • German: “Scarabantia”
  • German: “Sopron”
  • Greek: “Σόπρον”
  • Hausa: “Sopron”
  • Hebrew: “אדנבורג”
  • Hebrew: “אודנבורג”
  • Hebrew: “עדינבורג”
  • Hebrew: “עדנבורג”
  • Hebrew: “עדענבורג”
  • Hebrew: “שאפראן”
  • Hebrew: “שופרון”
  • Hindi: “ओडनबर्ग”
  • Hindi: “शोप्रोन”
  • Hindi: “सोपरोन”
  • Hungarian: “Sopron”
  • Inari Sami: “Sopron”
  • Indonesian: “Sopron”
  • Interlingue: “Sopron”
  • Irish: “Sopron”
  • Italian: “Odenburgo”
  • Italian: “Scarbantia”
  • Italian: “Sopron”
  • Japanese: “エーデンブルク”
  • Japanese: “エーデンブルグ”
  • Japanese: “ショプロン”
  • Kazakh: “Шопрон”
  • Korean: “쇼프론”
  • Latin: “Scarabantia” (historical)
  • Latin: “Scarbantia” (historical)
  • Latin: “Sopronii”
  • Latin: “Sopronium”
  • Latvian: “Šoprona”
  • Lithuanian: “Šopronas”
  • Lombard: “Sopron”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sopron”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sopron”
  • Macedonian: “Шопрон”
  • Malagasy: “Sopron”
  • Malay: “Sopron”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sopron”
  • Mingrelian: “შოპრონი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sopron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Šapron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sopron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Šopron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Šopruonj”
  • Norwegian: “Sopron”
  • Ossetian: “Шопрон”
  • Persian: “شپرن”
  • Persian: “شوپرون”
  • Piemontese: “Sopron”
  • Polish: “Sopron”
  • Portuguese: “Sopron”
  • Quechua: “Sopron”
  • Romanian: “Sopron”
  • Russian: “Оденбург”
  • Russian: “Шопрон”
  • Russian: “Эденбург”
  • Rusyn: “Шопрон”
  • Scots: “Sopron”
  • Serbian: “Šopron”
  • Serbian: “Шопрон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sopron”
  • Silesian: “Sopron”
  • Slovak: “Šopron”
  • Slovenian: “HU-SN”
  • Slovenian: “Scarabantia”
  • Slovenian: “Sopron”
  • Slovenian: “Šopron”
  • Slovenian: “Šopronj”
  • Spanish: “Odenburg”
  • Spanish: “Sopron”
  • Swedish: “Oedenburg”
  • Swedish: “Sopron”
  • Tatar: “Шопрон”
  • Turkish: “Sopron”
  • Ukrainian: “Шопрон”
  • Urdu: “سوپرون”
  • Vietnamese: “Sopron”
  • Volapük: “Sopron”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sopron”
  • Welsh: “Sopron”
  • Western Panjabi: “سوپرون”
  • Wu Chinese: “肖普朗”
  • Yiddish: “שאפראן”
  • “Ödenburg”
  • “Sopron”

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