Nagykanizsa

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Nagykanizsa (Croatian: Velika Kaniža, German: Großkirchen, Großkanizsa, Turkish: Kanije) is a city in Hungary in the center of the Somogy-Zala hills, lying between the western corner of the Lake Balaton and the Croatian and Slovenian border. At the same time, this pulsing border town, with its 55,000 inhabitants, is the center of the southwestern Transdanubian region. It's also the traditional transitplace of trade and tourism, heading for or arriving from the Adriatic and Italian harbours.