Kosovo
Kosovo is a largely mountainous country in the Balkan region of Europe. Its attractions for travelers include its archaeological and religious heritage, natural beauty, hiking and skiing.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Pristina
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Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo, is not beautiful: it is messy, with centuries-old Ottoman heritage competing with communist designs and post-communist architectural monstrosities.
Prizren
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Prizren, in Kosovo, is a charming city of mosques and monasteries dating back to the 14th century.
Mitrovica
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Mitrovica or Mitrovicë is a city in northern Kosovo, split between a southern ethnic-Albanian section and a northern ethnic-Serbian section.
Destinations
Peja
Peja, is a city in northwestern Kosovo. Peja has a rich cultural and historical inheritance being host to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, access to another one and surrounding by stunning nature.Gjakova
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Gjakova/Gjakovë Đakovica is a city in western Kosovo with about 101,000 inhabitants.
Gjilani
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Gjilan is a town in Kosovo, in the southeast linked with the highway of Pristina, Serbian Border and North Macedonian Border.
Ferizaj
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Ferizaj is a town in Kosovo, just west of the main highway linking the national capital, Pristina, with the Macedonian border.
Podujeva
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Podujevo or Besianë is a city and municipality in Pristina District in Kosovo.
Vushtrri
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Vushtrri is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo.
Kaçanik
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Kaçanik/Kačanik, or Kaçaniku, in Kosovo, is a city of peace and quiet, its houses with pointed red roofs being scattered along the verdant mountain slopes.
Rahovec
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Rahovec is a largely rural region in Kosovo centered around the town of Rahovec.
Istog
Istog is a town and municipality in the north-western part of Kosovo, in the Dukagjini Plain, with an altitude of up to 2155 m.Gračanica
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Gračanica is a Serbian community in Kosovo, centered around the Gračanica Monastery and about 10 km from Pristina.
Kamenica
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Kamenica or Dardana, or Kosovska Kamenica, is a town and municipality located in the Gjilan District of Kosovo.
Viti
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Viti or Vitina is a town and municipality located in the District of Gjilan in Kosovo.
Brezovica
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Brezovica is a settlement in the Štrpce municipality in Kosovo, known for its Brezovica ski resort.
Novo Brdo
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Novo Brdo or Novobërda and Artanë, is a town and municipality located in the Prishtina district of Kosovo.
Brod
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Brod is a village in the municipality of Dragash in southern Kosovo.
Rugova Mountains
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The Rugova Mountains are in the north-western part of Kosovo.
Kosovo
- Type: Country with 1,810,000 residents
- Description: not fully recognized country in southeastern Europe
- Languages: Albanian and Serbian
- Neighbors: Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia
- Categories: unitary state, landlocked country, state with limited recognition and locality
- Location: Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
42.6° or 42° 36' northLongitude of center
20.85° or 20° 51' eastPopulation
1,810,000Area
10,908 km² (4,212 miles²)Elevation
600 metres (1,969 feet)Capital
PristinaCurrency
Euro (EUR)OpenStreetMap ID
node 4366234392OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
831053Wikidata ID
Q1246Kosovo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kosovo
- Abkhazian: Косово
- Achinese: Kosovô
- Afar: Kosovo
- Afrikaans: Kosovo
- Afrikaans: Kosowo
- Akan: Kosovo
- Albanian: KOS
- Albanian: KS
- Albanian: Kosova
- Albanian: Kosovë
- Albanian: RKS
- Albanian: Republika e Kosovës
- Albanian: XK
- Albanian: XKX
- Amharic: Kosovo
- Amharic: ኮሶቮ
- Amis: Kosovo
- Angika: कोसोवो
- Arabic: Kosovo
- Arabic: جمهورية كوسوفو
- Arabic: قوصوة
- Arabic: كوسوفا
- Arabic: كوسوفو
- Aragonese: Kosovo
- Armenian: Կոսովո
- Armenian: Քոսովո
- Arpitan: Cosovo
- Arpitan: Kosovo
- Assamese: কচ’ভ’
- Asturian: Kosovu
- Atayal: Kosovo
- Avaric: Kosovoa
- Aymara: Kusuwu
- Azerbaijani: Kosovo
- Balinese: Kosovo
- Bashkir: Косово
- Bashkir: Косово Республикаһы
- Basque: Kosovo
- Bavarian: Kosovo
- Belarusian: Косава
- Belarusian: Республіка Косава
- Belarusian: Рэспубліка Косава
- Bengali: কসোভো
- Bosnian: Kosovo
- Breton: Kosovo
- Bulgarian: Косово
- Burmese: ကိုဆိုဗို
- Burmese: ကိုဆိုဗိုနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Kosovo
- Catalan: República de Kosovo
- Cebuano: Kosobo
- Central Bikol: Kosobo
- Central Kurdish: کۆسۆڤۆ
- Chavacano: Kosovo
- Chechen: Косово
- Chechen: Косово Республика
- Chechen: Республика Косово
- Cherokee: ᎪᏗᏉ
- Chinese: Kosovo
- Chinese: 科索沃
- Chuvash: Косово Республики
- Cornish: Kosova
- Crimean Tatar: Kosovo
- Croatian: Kosovo
- Czech: Kosovo
- Czech: Kosovská republika
- Dagbani: Kosovo
- Danish: Kosovo
- Dimli (individual language): Kosova
- Dutch: Kosovo
- Dutch: Republiek Kosovo
- Dutch: XK
- Dutch: XKX
- Egyptian Arabic: كوسوفو
- English: KOS
- English: KV
- English: Kosova
- English: Republic of Kosovo
- English: XK
- English: XKX
- Erzya: Косово Мастор
- Esperanto: Kosovo
- Esperanto: Respubliko Kosovo
- Estonian: Kosovo
- Extremaduran: Cosovu
- Faroese: Kosovo
- Fiji Hindi: Kosovo
- Finnish: Kosovo
- French: Kosovo
- French: Kossovo
- French: XK
- French: la République du Kosovo
- Friulian: Cossovo
- Friulian: Kosovo
- Gagauz: Kosova
- Gagauz: Kosovo hem Metohiya
- Galician: Kosovo
- Galician: República de Kosovo
- Gan Chinese: 科索沃
- Georgian: კოსოვო
- German: Kosovo
- German: Republik Kosovo
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Kosovo
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍉𐌱𐍉
- Greek: Κοσσυφοπέδιο
- Greek: Κόσοβο
- Guarani: Kosovo
- Guianese Creole French: Kosovo
- Gujarati: કોસોવો
- Haitian: Kosovo
- Hakka Chinese: Khô-sò-vok
- Hausa: Kasar Kosovo
- Hausa: Kosovo
- Hebrew: הרפובליקה של קוסובו
- Hebrew: קוסובו
- Hindi: कोसोवो
- Hindi: कोसोवो गणराज्य
- Hungarian: Koszovó
- Hungarian: Koszovói Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Kosóvó
- Icelandic: Kósóvó
- Ido: Kosovo
- Igbo: Kosovo
- Inari Sami: Kosovo
- Indonesian: Kosovo
- Indonesian: Republik Kosovo
- Interlingua: Kosovo
- Interlingue: Kosovo
- Irish: An Chosaiv
- Irish: an Chosaiv
- Italian: Cossovo
- Italian: Kosovo
- Japanese: コソボ
- Japanese: コソボ共和国
- Javanese: Kosovo
- Kabardian: Косово
- Kabyle: Kosovo
- Kalaallisut: Kosovo
- Kalmyk: Косовин Таңһч
- Kannada: ಕೊಸವೋ
- Kannada: ಕೊಸೊವೊ
- Kara-Kalpak: Kosovo
- Kashubian: Kòsowò
- Kazakh: Косово
- Khmer: កូសូវ៉ូ
- Kinyarwanda: Kosovo
- Kirghiz: Косово
- Komi: Косово
- Korean: 코소보
- Korean: 코소보 공화국
- Kotava: Kosovoa
- Kurdish: Kosova
- Kurdish: Kosovo
- Kölsch: Kosovo
- Ladin: Kosovo
- Ladino: Kosovo
- Lak: Косова
- Lao: ປະເທດໂກໂຊໂວ
- Lao: ປະເທດໂຄໂຊໂວ
- Lao: ໂຄໂຊໂວ
- Latin: Kosovia
- Latvian: Kosova
- Latvian: Kosovas Republika
- Ligurian: Kosovo
- Limburgan: Kosovo
- Lingua Franca Nova: Cosovo
- Literary Chinese: 科索沃
- Lithuanian: Kosovas
- Lombard: Kosovo
- Low German: Kosovo
- Lower Sorbian: Kosowo
- Luxembourgish: Kosovo
- Macedo-Romanian: Cosova
- Macedonian: Косово
- Macedonian: Република Косово
- Madurese: Kosovo
- Malagasy: Kôsôvô
- Malay: Kosovo
- Malayalam: കൊസോവൊ
- Malayalam: കൊസോവോ
- Malayalam: കൊസോവ്
- Maltese: Kosovo
- Maltese: il-Kosovo
- Manipuri: ꯀꯣꯁꯣꯚꯣ
- Manx: Kosovo
- Marathi: कोसोव्हो
- Mazanderani: کوزوو
- Min Dong Chinese: Kosovo
- Min Nan Chinese: Kosovo
- Mingrelian: კოსოვო
- Mirandese: Kosobo
- Mongolian: Косово
- Mongolian: ꯀꯣꯁꯣꯚꯣ
- Moroccan Arabic: كوسوڤو
- Moroccan Arabic: كوصوڤو
- Narom: Kosovo
- Nauru: Kosovo
- Nepali: कोसोभो
- Northern Frisian: Kosovo
- Northern Frisian: Kosowo
- Northern Luri: کوزوڤو
- Northern Sami: Kosovo
- Norwegian: Kosovo
- Norwegian Bokmål: KOS
- Norwegian Bokmål: KV
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kosova
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kosovo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kosovë
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Kosovo
- Norwegian Bokmål: XK
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kosovo
- Novial: Kosovo
- Occitan (post 1500): Kosova
- Occitan (post 1500): Republica de Kosova
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Kosovo
- Oriya: କୋସୋଭୋ
- Oromo: Kosoovoo
- Ossetian: Косово
- Panjabi: ਕੋਸੋਵੋ
- Panjabi: ਕੋਸੋਵੋ ਗਣਰਾਜ
- Papiamento: Kosovo
- Persian: کوزوو
- Persian: کوزووو
- Picard: Kosovo
- Piemontese: Kosovo
- Polish: Kosowo
- Polish: Republika Kosowa
- Pontic: Κόσοβο
- Portuguese: KOS
- Portuguese: KV
- Portuguese: Kosovo
- Portuguese: República do Kosovo
- Portuguese: XK
- Portuguese: XKX
- Pushto: کوزوو
- Pushto: کوسوو
- Quechua: Kosovo
- Quechua: Kusuwu
- Romanian: Kosovo
- Romansh: Cosovo
- Russia Buriat: Косово
- Russian: Косово (государство)
- Russian: Косово (республика)
- Russian: Косово (частично-признанное государство)
- Russian: Косово
- Russian: Республика Косово
- Rusyn: Косово
- Sakizaya: Kosovo
- Samoan: Kosovo
- Samogitian: Kuosuovs
- Santali: ᱠᱳᱥᱳᱵᱷᱳ
- Sardinian: Kòssovu
- Saterfriesisch: Kosovo
- Scots: Kosovo
- Scottish Gaelic: A’ Chosobho
- Scottish Gaelic: Cosobho
- Serbian: Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija
- Serbian: KOS
- Serbian: KV
- Serbian: Kosovo
- Serbian: Kosovo i Metohija
- Serbian: Republika Kosova
- Serbian: Republika Kosovo
- Serbian: Socijalistička Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo
- Serbian: XK
- Serbian: XKX
- Serbian: Косово
- Serbian: Косово и Метохија
- Serbian: Република Косова
- Serbian: Република Косово
- Serbo-Croatian: Kosovo
- Serbo-Croatian: Republika Kosovo
- Shan: ၵူဝ်ႇသူဝ်ႇဝူဝ်ႇ
- Shona: Kosovo
- Sicilian: Kòssuvu
- Silesian: Kosowo
- Sindhi: ڪوسووو
- Sinhala: කොසෝවො
- Sinhala: කොසෝවෝ
- Skolt Sami: Kosovo
- Slovak: Kosovo
- Slovenian: Kosovo
- Somali: Koosofo
- Somali: Kosofo
- South Azerbaijani: کوزووو
- Spanish: Kosovo
- Spanish: Republica de Kosovo
- Spanish: República de Kosovo
- Spanish: XK
- Sranan Tongo: Kosovokondre
- Sundanese: Kosovo
- Swahili: Kosovo
- Swedish: Kosovo
- Swedish: Republiken Kosovo
- Swiss German: Kosovo
- Tagalog: Kosovo
- Tajik: Косово
- Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Косово
- Talysh: Kosovo
- Tamil: கொசோவோ
- Tatar: Косово
- Tatar: Косово Җөмһүрияте
- Telugu: కొసావో
- Telugu: కొసోవో
- Thai: คอซอวอ
- Thai: ประเทศคอซอวอ
- Thai: โคโซโว
- Tibetan: ཁོ་སོ་ཝོ།
- Tigrinya: ኮሶቮ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Kōsovo
- Tosk Albanian: Kosovo
- Tsonga: Kosovo
- Tunisian Arabic: كوسوڥو
- Turkish: Kosova
- Turkmen: Kosowo
- Uighur: كوسوۋو
- Ukrainian: Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/99)
- Ukrainian: Косово
- Ukrainian: Республіка Косово
- Upper Sorbian: Kosowo
- Upper Sorbian: Republika Kosowo
- Urdu: کوسووو
- Urdu: کوسووہ
- Uzbek: Kosovo
- Venetian: Kosovo
- Vietnamese: Kosovo
- Vlaams: Kosovo
- Vlax Romani: Kosovo
- Volapük: Kosovän
- Võro: Kosovo
- Walloon: Cossovo
- Walloon: Republike di Cossovo
- Waray (Philippines): Kosovo
- Welsh: Cosofo
- Welsh: Kosovo
- Western Armenian: Քոսովօ
- Western Frisian: Kosovo
- Western Panjabi: کوسووو
- Western Panjabi: کوسوۆو
- Wolof: Kosowo
- Wu Chinese: 科索沃
- Yakut: Косова
- Yakut: Косово Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ
- Yiddish: קאסאווא
- Yoruba: Kòsófò
- Yoruba: Kósófò
- Yue Chinese: 科索沃
- Yue Chinese: 科索沃共和國
- Zeeuws: Kosovo
- Zhuang: Kosovo
- Zulu: i-Kosovo
- Dardania
- Kosovë / Kosovo
- Kósovó
- ma Kosowa
- Республикэ Косово
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