Košice
Košice is the second largest city in Slovakia, with a population of almost 240,000. It was the European Capital of Culture in 2013. Despite its relative remoteness, you may likely find Košice a hidden, unknown and approachable gem when seeking for a lesson in less known European history, lively arts scene or for a less spiritual entertainment thanks to its vibrant party scene.Photo: Ville Miettinen, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Steel Aréna
Photo: RickRichards, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Steel Aréna – Košický štadión L. Trojáka is the home arena of the ice hockey club HC Košice.
National Theatre Košice
Photo: Erika Mlejová, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Theatre Košice is situated in the centre of Košice, Slovakia.
Košice railway station
Photo: RickRichards, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Košice railway station serves the city of Košice, seat of the Košice Region, eastern Slovakia.
Localities in the Area
Košice-Západ
Photo: Jagro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Košice-Západ is a borough of Košice, Slovakia. Located in the Košice II district, at an altitude of roughly 243 metres above sea level, it is the most populous borough of the entire city.
Košice-Juh
Photo: Marián Gladiš, Public domain.
Košice-Juh is a borough of the city of Košice, Slovakia.
Košice
- Type: City with 239,000 residents
- Description: city in Slovakia
- Categories: municipality of Slovakia, big city and locality
- Location: Košice Region, Slovakia, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.7172° or 48° 43' 2" northLongitude
21.2497° or 21° 14' 59" eastPopulation
239,000Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)IATA airport code
KSCUnited Nations Location Code
SK KSCOpen Location Code
8GW3P68X+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 530544488OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
724443Wikidata ID
Q25409Košice Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Košice
- Albanian: Koshice
- Arabic: Košice
- Arabic: كوشيتسه
- Aragonese: Košice
- Armenian: Կոշիցե
- Asturian: Košice
- Avaric: Košice
- Azerbaijani: Koşitse
- Azerbaijani: Kоşitsе
- Bashkir: Кошице
- Basque: Košice
- Belarusian: Кошыцы
- Belarusian: Кошыцэ
- Bengali: কসিছে
- Bosnian: Košice
- Breton: Kosice
- Breton: Košice
- Bulgarian: Кашша
- Bulgarian: Кошице
- Catalan: Kosice
- Catalan: Košice
- Cebuano: Košice
- Chechen: Кошици
- Chinese: Košice
- Chinese: 科希策
- Chinese: 高溪樹
- Church Slavic: Кошицє
- Croatian: Kassa
- Croatian: Košice
- Czech: Cassovia
- Czech: Kaschau
- Czech: Košice
- Danish: Cassovia
- Danish: Kaschau
- Danish: Kosice
- Danish: Košice
- Dutch: Kassa
- Dutch: Kosice
- Dutch: Košice
- Egyptian Arabic: كوشيتسه
- English: Kascha
- English: Kaschau
- English: Kassa
- English: Kosice
- Esperanto: Kaschau
- Esperanto: Kassa
- Esperanto: Kosice
- Esperanto: Koŝice
- Esperanto: Košice
- Estonian: Kassa
- Estonian: Košice
- Finnish: Koshice
- Finnish: Kosice
- Finnish: Košice
- French: Cassovie
- French: Kaschau
- French: Kosice
- French: Košice
- Galician: Kosice
- Galician: Košice
- Georgian: კოშიცე
- German (Historic): Kaschau
- German: Kascha
- German: Kaschau
- German: Kassa
- German: Kosice
- German: Košice
- Greek: Κόζιτσε
- Greek: Κόσιτσε
- Gujarati: કોશિસ
- Hebrew: Kosice
- Hebrew: Košice
- Hebrew: קאשוי
- Hebrew: קושיצה
- Hindi: कोसिसे
- Hungarian: Cassoviae
- Hungarian: Kassa
- Hungarian: Košice
- Icelandic: Košice
- Ido: Košice
- Indonesian: Kosice
- Indonesian: Košice
- Interlingue: Košice
- Irish: Košice
- Italian: Cassovia
- Italian: Kaschau
- Italian: Košice
- Japanese: Košice
- Japanese: カッシャ
- Japanese: コシツェ
- Kannada: ಕೊಸ್ಸಿಸ್
- Kirghiz: Кошице
- Korean: 코시체
- Kotava: Košice
- Latin: Cassovia
- Latvian: Kaschau
- Latvian: Kassa
- Latvian: Košice
- Limburgan: Košice
- Lingala: Košice
- Lithuanian: Košice
- Lithuanian: Košicė
- Lombard: Kosice
- Lombard: Košice
- Low German: Košice
- Lower Sorbian: Košice
- Luxembourgish: Kosice
- Macedonian: Кошице
- Malay: Kosice
- Maltese: Kosice
- Maltese: Košice
- Marathi: कोशित्सा
- Min Nan Chinese: Košice
- Moksha: Кошицэ
- Northern Frisian: Košice
- Norwegian: Košice
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cassovia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kaschau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kassa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kašava
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kosice
- Norwegian Bokmål: Koszyce
- Norwegian Bokmål: Košice
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cassovia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kaschau
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kassa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kosice
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Košice
- Occitan (post 1500): Košice
- Ossetian: Кошице
- Persian: کاسسا
- Persian: کوشیتسه
- Polish: Kassa
- Polish: Koszyce
- Polish: Košice
- Portuguese: Kaschau
- Portuguese: Kassa
- Portuguese: Kosice
- Portuguese: Košice
- Pushto: کوشیتسه ښار
- Romanian: Cașovia
- Romanian: Kaschau
- Romanian: Kassa
- Romanian: Kosice
- Romanian: Koszice
- Romanian: Košice
- Russian: Кашау
- Russian: Кашша
- Russian: Кашшо
- Russian: Кошице
- Russian: Кошицы
- Rusyn: Кошіцї
- Scots: Košice
- Serbian: Кошице
- Serbo-Croatian: Košice
- Silesian: Košice
- Sinhala: කොසිකේ
- Slovak: Kaschau
- Slovak: Kassa
- Slovak: Košice
- Slovenian: Košice
- Spanish: Kaschau
- Spanish: Kassa
- Spanish: Kosice
- Spanish: Košice
- Swedish: Cassau
- Swedish: Kaschau
- Swedish: Kosice
- Swedish: Košice
- Tamil: கோசிஸ்
- Tatar: Кошитсе
- Tatar: Кошице
- Telugu: కోసిసె
- Thai: กอชิตเซ
- Turkish: Kaşa
- Turkish: Kaşevar
- Turkish: Košice
- Turkish: Kösice
- Ukrainian: Кошице
- Ukrainian: Кошиці
- Upper Sorbian: Košice
- Urdu: کوشیسہ
- Venetian: Košice
- Veps: Košice
- Vietnamese: Košice
- Volapük: Košice
- Waray (Philippines): Košice
- Western Panjabi: کوشیسے
- Wu Chinese: 科希策
- Yiddish: קאשוי
- Yiddish: קאשיצע
- Yue Chinese: 高溪樹
Other Places Named Košice
In the Area
Popular Destinations in Slovakia
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Košice. Photo: Ville Miettinen, CC BY 2.0.