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Varna

Varna

Varna is a large city on the coast in the northeast of . It's the larger of the country's two major sea ports, and a gateway to the seaside resorts on the northern part of the coast.
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  • Type: City with 348,000 residents
  • Description: city in Varna municipality, Varna oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Odesos”, “Stalin”, and “Varna, Bulgaria”
  • Postal code: 9000
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Roman Thermal Bath and ‘Ticha’ Stadium.

Photo: Dina Rogatnykh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Roman Thermae are a complex of Ancient Roman baths in the port city of Varna in northeastern . The Roman Thermae are situated in the southeastern part of the modern city, which under the Roman Empire was known as Odessus.

Stadium
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Stadion Ticha is a multi-purpose stadium in Varna, , located in the Chayka district of the city. Currently, the stadium is used for football matches and is the home ground of Cherno More Varna.

Church
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The Dormition of the Mother of God Cathedral is the largest church building in Varna and the third largest cathedral in . Officially opened on 30 August 1886, it is the residence of the bishopric of Varna and Preslav and one of the symbols of Varna.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Asparuhovo and Centre.

Suburb
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is a district of Varna. It is located in the southern part of the town and has a population of 27 000. In the district are located the Institute of Oceanology and the Bulgarian Ship Hydrodynamics Center, both part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Varna

Latitude
43.2074° or 43° 12′ 27″ north
Longitude
27.9167° or 27° 55′ east
Population
348,000
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
IATA airport code
VAR
United Nations Location Code
BG VAR
Open location code
8GM96W48+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058194
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
726050
Wiki­data ID
Q6506
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Varna” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Warna”
  • Albanian: “Varna”
  • Arabic: “فارنا”
  • Aragonese: “Varna”
  • Armenian: “Ստալին”
  • Armenian: “Վառնա”
  • Armenian: “Վարնա”
  • Asturian: “Varna”
  • Azerbaijani: “Varna”
  • Bashkir: “Варна”
  • Basque: “Varna”
  • Belarusian: “Варна”
  • Bengali: “ভার্না”
  • Breton: “Varna”
  • Bulgarian: “Варна”
  • Bulgarian: “Одесос”
  • Bulgarian: “Сталин”
  • Catalan: “Odessos”
  • Catalan: “Varna”
  • Cebuano: “Varna”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤارنا”
  • Chechen: “Варна”
  • Chinese: “瓦尔纳”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾納”
  • Chinese: “華爾納”
  • Church Slavic: “Варна”
  • Chuvash: “Варна”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Varna”
  • Croatian: “Varna”
  • Czech: “Varna”
  • Danish: “Varna”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Varna”
  • Dutch: “Varna”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤارنا”
  • Erzya: “Варна”
  • Esperanto: “Odesos”
  • Esperanto: “Varna”
  • Esperanto: “Варна”
  • Estonian: “Varna”
  • Finnish: “Odesos”
  • Finnish: “Stalin”
  • Finnish: “Varna”
  • French: “Odessos”
  • French: “Staline”
  • French: “Varna”
  • Gagauz: “Varna”
  • Galician: “Varna”
  • Georgian: “ვარნა”
  • German: “Odessos”
  • German: “Varna”
  • German: “Warna”
  • Greek: “Βάρνα”
  • Gujarati: “વર્ના”
  • Gujarati: “વાર્ના”
  • Hebrew: “וארנה”
  • Hebrew: “ורנה”
  • Hindi: “वर्ना”
  • Hindi: “वारना”
  • Hindi: “वार्ना”
  • Hungarian: “Várna”
  • Icelandic: “Varna”
  • Ido: “Varna”
  • Indonesian: “Varna”
  • Interlingue: “Varna”
  • Irish: “Varna”
  • Italian: “Varna”
  • Japanese: “ヴァルナ”
  • Kannada: “ವರ್ಣ”
  • Kannada: “ವರ್ನ”
  • Kazakh: “Варна”
  • Kirghiz: “Варна”
  • Korean: “바르나”
  • Kurdish: “Varna”
  • Latin: “Odessos”
  • Latin: “Odessus”
  • Latvian: “Varna”
  • Limburgan: “Varna”
  • Lithuanian: “Varna”
  • Lombard: “Varna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Varna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Warna”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Varna”
  • Macedonian: “Варна”
  • Malay: “Varna”
  • Maltese: “Varna”
  • Marathi: “व्हर्ना”
  • Moksha: “Варна”
  • Mongolian: “Варна хот”
  • Mongolian: “Варна”
  • Northern Frisian: “Warna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Varna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Varna”
  • Norwegian: “Varna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Varna”
  • Ossetian: “Варнæ”
  • Persian: “وارنا”
  • Piemontese: “Varna”
  • Polish: “Warna”
  • Portuguese: “Varna”
  • Romanian: “Varna”
  • Russian: “Варна”
  • Russian: “Одессос”
  • Russian: “Сталин”
  • Sardinian: “Varna (Bulgaria)”
  • Sardinian: “Varna”
  • Scots: “Varna”
  • Serbian: “Варна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Varna”
  • Silesian: “Warna”
  • Sinhala: “වර්ණා”
  • Sinhala: “වර්නා, බල්ගේරියාව”
  • Sinhala: “වර්නා”
  • Slovak: “Varna”
  • Slovenian: “Varna, Bolgarija”
  • Slovenian: “Varna”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وارنا”
  • Spanish: “Varna”
  • Swedish: “Odesos”
  • Swedish: “Stalin”
  • Swedish: “Varna”
  • Tamil: “வர்ணா”
  • Tatar: “Варна”
  • Telugu: “వర్నా”
  • Thai: “วาร์นา”
  • Turkish: “Varna”
  • Turkmen: “Warna”
  • Ukrainian: “Варна”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Warna”
  • Urdu: “وارنا”
  • Uzbek: “Varna”
  • Venetian: “Varna”
  • Veps: “Varn”
  • Vietnamese: “Varna”
  • Vlax Romani: “Varna”
  • Volapük: “Varna”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Varna”
  • Welsh: “Varna”
  • Western Armenian: “Վառնա”
  • Western Panjabi: “وارنا”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦尔纳”
  • Yue Chinese: “華爾納”
  • “Varna”
  • “Варна”

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