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Western Transdanubia

Zala County

Zala is an administrative county in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with and and the Hungarian counties , Veszprém and .
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is a city in in the Somogy-Zala hills, lying between the western corner of the and the Croatian and Slovenian border. This pulsing border town, with its 47,000 inhabitants, is the centre of the southwestern Transdanubian region.

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is the administrative centre of Zala County. The city was founded in 12th century, and has about 57,000 inhabitants.

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is a town in Zala County in the valley of Kerka river, near to the border with .

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is a town in Zala County, . The settlement incorporates the suburbs Kisszentgrót, Tüskeszentpéter, Csáford, Zalakoppány, Zalaudvarnok and Aranyod.

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is a town in Zala County, , on the border with . Across the border is the town of . was elevated to town status in 1989.

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is a town in Zala County in the valley of Zala river.

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is a small town in Zala County in the southwest of Hungary. and its surrounding countryside are dotted with old churches and similar landmarks.

Zala County

Latitude of center
46.6713° or 46° 40′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
16.8895° or 16° 53′ 22″ east
Population
271,000
Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2781485833
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
3042613
Wiki­data ID
Q185374
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Zala County” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Zala”
  • Arabic: “زالا”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة زالا”
  • Aragonese: “Condau de Zala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zala”
  • Balinese: “County Zala”
  • Basque: “Zala konderria”
  • Basque: “Zala”
  • Belarusian: “Зала (медзье)”
  • Belarusian: “Зала”
  • Belarusian: “медзье Зала”
  • Bengali: “জালা কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Зала”
  • Catalan: “Zala”
  • Cebuano: “Zala megye”
  • Chinese: “Zala”
  • Chinese: “佐洛州”
  • Chinese: “佐洛縣”
  • Corsican: “Cuntea di Zala”
  • Croatian: “Zala”
  • Croatian: “Zalska županija”
  • Czech: “Zala”
  • Danish: “Zala”
  • Dutch: “Zala”
  • Erzya: “Зала (медье)”
  • Erzya: “Зала”
  • Esperanto: “Zala”
  • Estonian: “Zala komitaat”
  • Finnish: “Zala”
  • French: “Comitat de Zala”
  • French: “Zala”
  • Galician: “Zala”
  • Georgian: “ზალის მედიე”
  • German: “HU-ZA”
  • German: “Komitat Zala”
  • German: “Szala”
  • German: “Zala”
  • Greek: “Ζάλα”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાલા કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hebrew: “זאלה”
  • Hindi: “ज़ला काउंटी”
  • Hungarian: “Zala megye”
  • Hungarian: “Zala vármegye”
  • Indonesian: “Zala”
  • Italian: “Contea di Zala”
  • Italian: “provincia di Zala”
  • Italian: “Zala”
  • Japanese: “ザラ県”
  • Kannada: “ಝಲಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Korean: “절러 주”
  • Korean: “절러주”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Zaladiensis”
  • Latvian: “Zala”
  • Latvian: “Zalas meģe”
  • Lithuanian: “Zala”
  • Lithuanian: “Zalos medė”
  • Lombard: “Contea de Zala”
  • Macedonian: “Зала”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Zala”
  • Malay: “Zala”
  • Marathi: “झला काउंटी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zala”
  • Mongolian: “Зала”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zala fylke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zala”
  • Norwegian: “Zala”
  • Ossetian: “Залæ (медье)”
  • Ossetian: “Залæ”
  • Persian: “زالا”
  • Polish: “Komitat Zala”
  • Portuguese: “Zala”
  • Romanian: “Județul Zala”
  • Romanian: “Zala”
  • Russian: “Зала”
  • Serbian: “Zala megye”
  • Serbian: “Zala”
  • Serbian: “Жупанија Зала”
  • Serbian: “Зала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zala”
  • Sinhala: “සාලා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Zalianska župa”
  • Slovenian: “Zala”
  • Slovenian: “Zalska županija”
  • Slovenian: “Županija Zala”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Zala”
  • Spanish: “Zala”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Zala”
  • Swahili: “Zala”
  • Swedish: “Zala”
  • Swiss German: “Zala”
  • Tajik: “Золо”
  • Tamil: “சாலா கவுண்டி”
  • Telugu: “జాలా కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “เขตปกครองซาล่า”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Zala”
  • Turkish: “Zala ili”
  • Turkish: “Zala”
  • Ukrainian: “Зала”
  • Urdu: “زالا کاؤنٹی”
  • Veps: “Zal”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạt Zala”
  • Võro: “Zala maakund”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Zala”
  • Welsh: “Sir Zala”
  • Western Panjabi: “زالا کاؤنٹی”
  • Wu Chinese: “佐洛州”
  • “Zala maakund”

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