Rakek
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Place details
- Locality
- Rakek
- Region
- Municipality of Cerknica
- Country
- Slovenija
- Population
- 2,152
- Timezone
- Europe/Ljubljana
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Rakek
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rakek1.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Slovenia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Slovenia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Traditional region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Inner Carniola
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Statistical region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Littoral–Inner Carniola
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Cerknica
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 7.01
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 2190
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Slovenia
- Located in
- Municipality of Cerknica
- Population
- 2190
- Area
- 7.01
- Elevation
- 547
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Rakek1.jpg
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- Rakek
- female population
- 1130
- male population
- 1060
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Name
- History
- Church
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Rakek (; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Cerknica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia.
==Name== Rakek was attested in written sources in 1300 as Rachach and in 1498 as Rakeckh. The name is derived from the Rak River. The Italian name Recchio was coined in the 20th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rakek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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