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Western Transdanubia

Vas County

Vas is an administrative county of . It was also one of the counties of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It is part of the Centrope Project.
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is a historical town in Vas county, in . Another beautiful town beside , it is often referred to as the "jewellery box of the country". Like Sopron, it is very close to the Austrian border.

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is the 10th largest city in . It is the administrative centre of Vas County in the west of the country, located near the border with .

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is a town in Vas County, Western .

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is the westernmost town of . It is situated on the River near the border.

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is the fifth largest town in Vas County, Hungary. Parts of the Eragon movie were filmed here. The town with 11,000 inhabitants can be found in the centre of Kemenesalja Hills.

Vas County

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
node 2781485828
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
3043047
Wiki­data ID
Q187677
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Vas County” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فاس”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة فاس”
  • 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: “Vas”
  • Chinese: “沃什州”
  • Chinese: “沃什縣”
  • 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: “HU-VA”
  • German: “Komitat Vas”
  • German: “Vas”
  • Greek: “Βας”
  • Gujarati: “વાસ કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hebrew: “ואש”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ואש”
  • Hindi: “वास काउंटी”
  • Hungarian: “Vas megye”
  • Hungarian: “Vas vármegye”
  • Indonesian: “Vas, Hungaria”
  • Indonesian: “Vas”
  • Italian: “Contea di Vas”
  • Italian: “provincia di Vas”
  • Italian: “Vas”
  • Japanese: “ヴァシュ県”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಸ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Korean: “바스 주”
  • Korean: “버시 주”
  • Korean: “버시주”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Castraferrei”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Castriferrei”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Castriferreus”
  • Latvian: “Vaša”
  • Latvian: “Vašas meģe”
  • Lithuanian: “Vašas”
  • Lombard: “Contea de 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”
  • Ossetian: “Ваш (медье)”
  • Ossetian: “Ваш”
  • Persian: “شهرستان واس”
  • Persian: “واش”
  • Polish: “Komitat Vas”
  • Portuguese: “Vas”
  • Romanian: “Județul Vas”
  • Romanian: “Vas”
  • Russian: “Ваш”
  • Serbian: “Vas megye”
  • Serbian: “Vaš”
  • Serbian: “Ваш”
  • Serbian: “Жупанија Ваш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vas”
  • Sinhala: “වාස් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Vašská župa”
  • Slovenian: “Vas”
  • Slovenian: “Železna županija”
  • Slovenian: “Železna”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Vas”
  • Spanish: “Vas”
  • Swahili: “Vas”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Vas”
  • Swedish: “Vas”
  • Swiss German: “Vas”
  • Tamil: “வாஸ் கவுண்டி”
  • Telugu: “వాస్ కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “เขตปกครองแวส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Vas”
  • Turkish: “Vas ili”
  • Turkish: “Vas”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваш”
  • Urdu: “واش کاؤنٹی”
  • 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”
  • “Vasi maakund”

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