Vas County
Vas is an administrative county of Hungary. It was also one of the counties of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It is part of the Centrope Project.
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Vas County
- Type: County with 253,000 residents
- Description: county of Hungary
- Also known as: “Comitatus Castraferrei”, “Comitatus Castriferrei”, “HU-VA”, “HU222”, “Vas vármegye”, “Wilaya ya Vas”, “Železna”, “Жупанија Ваш”, “فاس”, “바스 주”, and “沃什縣”
- Neighbors: Burgenland, Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Veszprém County, and Zala County
- Categories: county of Hungary and locality
- Location: Western Transdanubia, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
47.1372° or 47° 8′ 14″ north
Longitude of center
16.7809° or 16° 46′ 51″ east
Population
253,000
Elevation
180 metres (591 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Vas County” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቫስ ሪክብ”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة فاس”
- Aragonese: “Condau de Vas”
- Armenian: “Վաս”
- Azerbaijani: “Vaş medyesi”
- Azerbaijani: “Vaş”
- Balinese: “County Vas”
- Basque: “Vas konderria”
- Basque: “Vas”
- Belarusian: “Ваш”
- Belarusian: “медзье Ваш”
- Bengali: “ভাস কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Ваш”
- Catalan: “Vas”
- Cebuano: “Vas megye”
- Chinese: “沃什州”
- Corsican: “Cuntea di Vas”
- Croatian: “Željezna županija”
- Czech: “Vas”
- Danish: “Vas”
- Dutch: “Vas”
- Erzya: “Ваш (медье)”
- Erzya: “Ваш”
- Esperanto: “Vas”
- Estonian: “Vasi komitaat”
- Finnish: “Vas”
- French: “Vas”
- Galician: “Vas”
- Georgian: “ვაშის მედიე”
- German: “Komitat Vas”
- German: “Vas”
- Greek: “Βας”
- Gujarati: “વાસ કાઉન્ટી”
- Hausa: “Vas County”
- Hebrew: “ואש”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ואש”
- Hindi: “वाश प्रांत”
- Hindi: “वास काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Vas megye”
- Indonesian: “Vas, Hungaria”
- Indonesian: “Vas”
- Italian: “Contea di Vas”
- Italian: “provincia di Vas”
- Japanese: “ヴァシュ県”
- Javanese: “Vas County”
- Kannada: “ವಾಸ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Kazakh: “Ваш Аудандығы”
- Kirghiz: “Ваш Чилтеси”
- Korean: “버시 주”
- Korean: “버시주”
- Latin: “Comitatus Castriferreus”
- Latvian: “Vaša”
- Latvian: “Vašas meģe”
- Lithuanian: “Vašas”
- Lombard: “Contea de Vas”
- Luxembourgish: “Vas”
- Macedonian: “Ваш”
- Malay: “Vas”
- Malay: “Wilayah Vas”
- Marathi: “वास काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vas”
- Mongolian: “Ваш”
- Northern Frisian: “Vas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vas”
- Norwegian: “Vas”
- Oromo: “Vas County”
- Ossetian: “Ваш (медье)”
- Ossetian: “Ваш”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਸ ਕاਊਂਟੀ”
- Persian: “شهرستان واس”
- Persian: “واش”
- Polish: “Komitat Vas”
- Portuguese: “Vas”
- Pushto: “واس کونټی”
- Romanian: “Județul Vas”
- Romanian: “Vas”
- Russian: “Ваш”
- Serbian: “Vaš”
- Serbian: “Ваш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vas”
- Sinhala: “වාස් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Vašská župa”
- Slovenian: “Železna županija”
- Somali: “Vas County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Vas”
- Spanish: “Vas”
- Swahili: “Vas”
- Swedish: “Vas”
- Swiss German: “Vas”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Ваш”
- Tamil: “வாஸ் கவுண்டி”
- Tatar: “Ваш Районы”
- Telugu: “వాస్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เขตปกครองแวส”
- Turkish: “Vas ili”
- Turkish: “Vas”
- Ukrainian: “Ваш”
- Urdu: “واش کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Vas County”
- Veps: “Vaš”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Vas”
- Võro: “Vasi maakund”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Vas”
- Welsh: “Sir Vas”
- Western Panjabi: “واس کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “沃什州”
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