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Šoštanj

city in Slovenia
Place Human Settlement Q2766344
Šoštanj
Vekoslav Kramarič · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

11 properties

Designation

Instance of
human settlement, cultural heritage site in Slovenia[4]
Heritage designation
registered immobile cultural heritage of Slovenia[9]

Location

Country
Slovenia[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.380°, 15.048°, 🗺️ 46.380°, 15.049°[5][6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Municipality of Šoštanj[2]
More facts +6
Capital of
Municipality of Šoštanj[8]
Area
+3.7[13]
Elevation above sea level
+361[12]
Female population
+1556[10]
Male population
+1362[11]
Population
+2918[7]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 2,918 GeoNames 2,880 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
🏷️ Also known as
en Šoštanj ar شوشتانج el Σόσταν fa ششتانی ru Шоштань th โชชตัน zh 紹什塔尼
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
145867784
Library of Congress Authorities ID
nr98009914
GND ID
1211391981
Freebase ID
/m/0bnjzd
GNS Unique Feature ID
-96423
GeoNames ID
3190311
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1064881
J9U entity ID
987007535881005171
NL CR AUT ID
ge869030
National Library of Israel ID (old)
001050981
Quora topic ID
Sostanj
Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID
4252
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Topic's main category
Category:Šoštanj
Who's on First ID
85678193
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Ljubljana 2026-09-26 P/PPLA · SI GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People born here 2
Karel Destovnik, Josip Vošnjak
Capital of 1
Municipality of Šoštanj
Country 1
Slovenia
Instance of 1
human settlement
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Municipality of Šoštanj
← Contains settlement 1
Municipality of Šoštanj
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Summary

Šoštanj is a human settlement[1].

Related Entities

Slovenia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . pxweb.stat.si. Retrieved . pxweb.stat.si. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . pxweb.stat.si. Retrieved . pxweb.stat.si. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . pxweb.stat.si. Retrieved . pxweb.stat.si. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Municipality of Šoštanj
    GND ID → 1211391981
    Area → 3.7 square kilometre
    Instance of → human settlement, cultural heritage site in Slovenia
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
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