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Bay of Kotor, Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, Bobotov Kuk and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Montenegro and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Geographic region of Montenegro
Also called the Gulf of Kotor, or just the Boka, a winding bay of the Adriatic in south-western Montenegro, and the region around it; it is also the southernmost part of historical Dalmatia.
Photo: Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kotor Municipality, Montenegro
A World Heritage Site in Montenegro, listed in 1979, covering Kotor's old town, its fortifications and the country around the inner Bay of Kotor.
Photo: User:Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain in Montenegro
A peak in northern Montenegro, 2,523 m (8,278 ft) high, the highest of the Durmitor range and once thought to be Montenegro's highest point.
Photo: Goran.Smith2, CC BY-SA 3.0
Highest mountain of Bosnia and Herzegovina
A mountain of the Dinaric Alps straddling the border of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Photo: Dingoa, CC BY-SA 3.0
Church in Montenegro
Properly the Cathedral of Saint Tryphon, one of Montenegro's two Roman Catholic cathedrals, in Kotor. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kotor, which takes in the whole Bay of Kotor and Budva Municipality.
Photo: Gérard Janot, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Podgorica, Montenegro
An Eastern Orthodox church in Podgorica, Montenegro, the cathedral of the Serbian Orthodox Church's Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, under whose jurisdiction it falls.
Photo: ines lukic, CC BY 3.0
Bridge over the River Morača in Montenegro
A cable-stayed bridge over the Morača in Podgorica, Montenegro.
Photo: ines lukic, CC BY 3.0
Railway bridge in Montenegro
Carrying the Belgrade–Bar railway, a viaduct lying some 20 km north of Podgorica, Montenegro.
Photo: Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bridge in close to Žabljak, Montenegro
Spanning the Tara, in Montenegro's north: an arched bridge built of concrete.
Photo: Daniel Borsos, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Massif in the Dinaric Alps, Montenegro
A mountain of the Dinaric Alps in Montenegro, 2,211-metre-high (7,254 ft), west of Plav and Lake Plav, where the Lim river begins.
Photo: Martin Brož, CC BY 3.0
A Southeast European country on the Balkan Peninsula, whose 25 municipalities hold 633,158 people on 13,883 km². Croatia lies to its west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to its northwest, Serbia to its northeast, Kosovo to its east and Albania to its southeast, and it has an Adriatic coast to the southwest.
Officially Montenegro. Known locally as Crna Gora Црна Гора.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Bay of Kotor, Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, Bobotov Kuk and Maglić (mountain) and others. Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Montenegro that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor. That is not the full count for Montenegro, only the listed sites that made this guide.
Montenegrin. The currency is EUR.
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