Vratsa
Vratsa is a city of in North Bulgaria. Built at the foot of a branch of the Balkan Mountains, it has one of the most scenic skylines in Bulgaria, and it's also the starting point for numerous natural features, most notably the Ledenika Cave, the Skaklya Waterfall and the Vrattsata Pass.
- Type: City with 60,900 residents
- Description: city in Vratsa municipality, Vratsa oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “İvrace”, “Vraça”, “Vraţa”, “Vratca”, “Vrattsa”, “Вратца”, “ГР.ВРАЦА”, and “ורצה”
- Postal code: 3000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tower of Kurt Pasha and Vratsa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zgorigrad.
Vratsa
- Categories: municipality seat, oblast seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Vratsa, North Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
43.2028° or 43° 12′ 10″ north
Longitude
23.548° or 23° 32′ 53″ east
Population
60,900
Elevation
352 metres (1,155 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Vratsa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vraca”
- Amharic: “ቭራትሳ”
- Arabic: “فراتسا”
- Armenian: “Վրացա”
- Asturian: “Vratsa”
- Azerbaijani: “Vratsa”
- Belarusian: “Враца”
- Belarusian: “Ураца”
- Bengali: “ভ্রাৎসা”
- Bengali: “ভ্রাসা”
- Bulgarian: “Враца”
- Catalan: “Vratsa”
- Cebuano: “Vratsa (kapital sa rehiyon sa Bulgaria)”
- Cebuano: “Vratsa”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤراتسا”
- Chechen: “Враца”
- Chinese: “弗拉察”
- Church Slavic: “Враца”
- Croatian: “Vraca”
- Czech: “Vraca”
- Danish: “Vratsa”
- Dutch: “Vratsa”
- Esperanto: “Vraca”
- Estonian: “Vraca”
- Finnish: “Vratsa”
- French: “Vratsa”
- Galician: “Vratsa”
- German: “Vratza”
- German: “Wraza”
- Greek: “Βράτσα”
- Gujarati: “વ્રાત્સા”
- Hausa: “Vratsa”
- Hebrew: “וראצה”
- Hindi: “व्रातसा”
- Hindi: “व्रात्सा”
- Hungarian: “Vraca”
- Indonesian: “Vratsa”
- Irish: “Vratsa”
- Italian: “Vraca”
- Japanese: “ヴラツァ”
- Javanese: “Vratsa”
- Kannada: “ವ್ರತ್ಸ”
- Kazakh: “Vraca”
- Kazakh: “Враца”
- Kazakh: “ۆراتسا”
- Kirghiz: “Враца”
- Korean: “브라차”
- Latvian: “Vraca”
- Lithuanian: “Vraca”
- Lombard: “Vraca”
- Macedonian: “Враца”
- Malay: “Vratsa”
- Marathi: “व्र्यास्टा”
- Moksha: “Враца”
- Northern Frisian: “Wratsa (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Wratsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vratsa”
- Oromo: “Vratsa”
- Ossetian: “Врацæ”
- Panjabi: “ਵ੍ਰਾਤਸਾ”
- Persian: “وراتسا”
- Polish: “Wraca”
- Portuguese: “Vratsa”
- Pushto: “وراتسا”
- Romanian: “Vrața”
- Russian: “Враца”
- Scots: “Vratsa”
- Serbian: “Vraca”
- Serbian: “Враца”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vraca”
- Silesian: “Wraca”
- Sinhala: “ව්රස්ටා, බල්ගේරියාව”
- Sinhala: “ව්රස්ටා”
- Slovak: “Vraca”
- Slovenian: “Vraca”
- Somali: “Vratsa”
- South Azerbaijani: “وراتسا”
- Spanish: “Vratsa”
- Swahili: “Vratsa”
- Swedish: “Vratsa”
- Tajik: “Враца”
- Tamil: “விராட்சா”
- Tatar: “Вратса”
- Tatar: “Враца”
- Telugu: “వ్రాట్సా”
- Thai: “วรัทซา”
- Turkish: “İvraca”
- Ukrainian: “Враца”
- Urdu: “وراتسا”
- Uzbek: “Vratsa”
- Vietnamese: “Vratsa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vratsa”
- Western Panjabi: “وراتسا”
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