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Nova Gorica

Southern Europe

Nova Gorica is a town in the Slovenian Littoral region of western Slovenia, on the border with Italy, and serves as the seat of the Gorizia statistical region. It had a population of 13,021 in 2023 across just 3.49 square kilometers, making it one of the most compact towns in Slovenia by area. Nova Gorica was built as a planned town starting in 1948 and formally established as an urban municipality in 1952, after the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty redrew the border between Yugoslavia and Italy and separated the region from the older town of Gorizia across the frontier. It was designated European Capital of Culture for 2025 jointly with neighboring Gorizia in Italy, described by the BBC as the first borderless Capital of Culture in Europe.

Facts
Population
13,031 1
Founding Year
1952 2
Founding Year
1952 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 4
Sources
1. Nova Gorica (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
Quote, P1082 (population)
population 13,031 (2020)
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2. Nova Gorica (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Nova Gorica (pronounced [ˈnɔ̀ːʋa ɡɔˈɾìːtsa] ) is a town in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy.
  • Infobox: elevation_m
    93.4
  • History section
    The city was formally established as an urban municipality in 1952, incorporating the older settlements of Solkan, Kromberk and Rožna Dolina, which thus became, somewhat reluctantly, suburbs of Nova Gorica.
  • In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 45.75, 13.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 45.75, 13.75
45.75 13.75 Cfb
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4. GeoNames: Nova Gorica - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3194452, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 3194452, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
45.95604 13.64837 P PPLA SI 84 13031 103 Europe/Ljubljana
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