Soroca
Soroca is a city and municipality in northern Moldova, situated on the Dniester River about 160 km north of Chișinău. It is the administrative center of the Soroca District.
- Type: City with 37,400 residents
- Description: Moldovan city situated on the Dniester river
- Also known as: “Olihonia”, “Soroca (distriktshuvudort)”, “Soroke”, “Soroky”, “Сороки (город)”, and “סאָראָקע”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Candle of Gratitude.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tsekynivka and Zastînca.
Soroca
- Categories: municipality of Moldova and locality
- Location: Soroca District, Moldova, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
48.1571° or 48° 9′ 26″ north
Longitude
28.2996° or 28° 17′ 59″ east
Population
37,400
Elevation
191 metres (627 feet)
UN/LOCODE
MD SOR
Open location code
8GWC574X+VR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yiddish—“Soroca” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Soroca”
- Amharic: “ሶሮካ”
- Arabic: “سوروكا”
- Arabic: “سوروکا”
- Armenian: “Սորոկի”
- Asturian: “Soroca”
- Azerbaijani: “Soroca”
- Bashkir: “Сороки”
- Basque: “Soroca”
- Belarusian: “Сарока (Малдова)”
- Belarusian: “Сарока”
- Belarusian: “Сарокі”
- Bengali: “সোরোকা”
- Bulgarian: “Сорока”
- Bulgarian: “Сороки”
- Catalan: “Soroca”
- Cebuano: “Soroca (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Soroca”
- Chinese: “索罗卡”
- Chinese: “索羅卡”
- Crimean Tatar: “Soroka”
- Croatian: “Soroca”
- Czech: “Soroca”
- Danish: “Soroca”
- Dutch: “Soroca”
- Esperanto: “Soroca”
- Estonian: “Soroca”
- Finnish: “Soroca”
- French: “Soroca”
- Georgian: “სოროკი”
- German: “Soroca”
- Greek: “Σορόκα”
- Hausa: “Soroca”
- Hebrew: “סורוקה”
- Hindi: “सोरोका”
- Hungarian: “Soroca”
- Indonesian: “Soroka”
- Italian: “Soroca”
- Japanese: “ソロカ”
- Javanese: “Soroka”
- Kazakh: “Сорока”
- Kazakh: “Сороки”
- Kirghiz: “Сорока”
- Korean: “소로카”
- Korean: “소로키”
- Latin: “Soroca”
- Latvian: “Soroka”
- Lithuanian: “Soroka”
- Macedonian: “Сорока”
- Malay: “Soroka”
- Mingrelian: “სოროკა”
- Moksha: “Сорока”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soroca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Soroca”
- Norwegian: “Soroca”
- Oromo: “Soroka”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਰੋਕਾ”
- Persian: “سوروکا”
- Polish: “Soroki”
- Portuguese: “Soroca”
- Pushto: “سوروکا”
- Romanian: “Soroca”
- Russian: “Сорока”
- Russian: “Сороки”
- Serbian: “Сорока”
- Silesian: “Soroca”
- Slovak: “Soroca”
- Slovenian: “Soroca”
- Somali: “Soroka”
- Spanish: “Soroca”
- Swahili: “Soroka”
- Swedish: “Soroca”
- Tajik: “Сорока”
- Tatar: “Сорока”
- Thai: “ซอรอกา”
- Turkish: “Soroca”
- Turkish: “Suryaka”
- Ukrainian: “Сороки”
- Upper Sorbian: “Soroca”
- Urdu: “سوروکا”
- Uzbek: “Soroka”
- Western Panjabi: “سوروکا”
- Yakut: “Сороки”
- Yiddish: “סאראקע”
- “Soroca”
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