Kras
limestone plateau region in south of Europe
Facts
12 propertiesDesignation
- Instance of
- mountain range, karst plateau, geomorphological unit[6][7]
- Heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site (2015–present)[14]
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 45.667°, 13.900°[9]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Slovenian Littoral[2]
More facts +7
- Located in
- Slovenian Littoral
- Subclass of
- geomorphological unit[8]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 45.667°, 13.900°
- Described by source
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[10][11][12][13]
- Elevation above sea level
- 1272.0
- Mountain range
- Dinaric Alps
- World Heritage criteria
- (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
🏷️ Also known as
en Dinaric Karst
en Karst
en Karst Plateau
en Karst region
en Kras
ar هضبة كارست
es Meseta de Kras
es Carso
es Karst
es Kras
fa فلات کارست
fr Haut plateau karstique
fr Karst
fr Plateau du Carso
fr plateau du Karst
fr Plateau karstique
fr Préalpes du Karst
he קראס
id Dataran Karst
it Altopiano Carsico
🔖 Identifiers · 19
- VIAF cluster ID
- 243010956
- GND ID
- 4097690-7
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Karst italy limestone.jpg ↗
- BBC Things ID
- 6d122b8a-c839-4c9a-95a2-e7c8f2628c12
- De Agostini ID
- Carso
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Karst-region-Europe
- Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID
- ca6e
- Freebase ID
- /m/03f_bl
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- kras
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0035972
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Carso
- Istrapedia ID
- 1479
Show all 19 identifiers +7
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge456209
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 9855893239
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- carso
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- carso, carso_res-68c1bcf3-87e5-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51
- World Heritage Tentative List ID
- 6072
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJfRD4vy8y3yFYjGQD7JXd
- Yale LUX ID
- place/26738c24-f069-4b8e-a17d-6bb51ae733b8
🔗 Connections
Described by source 2
Heritage designation 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Mountain range 1
People who died here 1
← FactGrid item ID 1
← Geomorphological unit 1
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Summary
Kras is a mountain range[1].
Body
Geography
Country listings include Slovenia[3], a sovereign state[15], in Slovenia[16], founded in 1991[17], headquartered in Gregorčičeva ulica, Ljubljana[18]; Italy[4], a country[19], in Italy[20], founded in 1946[21]; and Croatia[5], a sovereign state[22], in Croatia[23], founded in 1991[24].
Physical Characteristics
Kras's elevation above sea level is recorded as 1272 m[25].