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Municipality
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Map showing, in red, Cerkno
Country	Slovenia
Traditional regional	Littoral
Statistical region	Goriška
Area
• Total	131.5 km² (50.8 sq mi)
Elevation	355 m (1,165 ft)
Population (2017)
• Total	4,602
• Density	34.996/km² (90.64/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5282
ISO 3166-2	SI-014
Website	Official website: http://cerkno.si/

Cerkno (Italian: Circhina, German: Kirchheim) is a small Slovenian town that is the administrative centre of the Municipality of Cerkno (Slovene: Občina Cerkno). It is an economic and cultural centre of the Cerkno Hills (Slovene: Cerkljansko) region.

The municipality of Cerkno was established on 10 March 1994. Its administrative centre is the town of Cerkno and is well known for its ski resort.

Geography
History
Settlements
Tourism
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Geography

The municipality of Cerkno is in western Slovenia and is part of the Goriška statistical region. The town of Cerkno is at an altitude of 355 m (1,165 ft),

The municipality has an area 131.5 km² (50.8 sq mi), and a population, in 2017, of 4,602: 2,352 men and 2,250 women. Its population density is of 35.0 inhabitants/km².

The municipality of Cerkno is surrounded by the following municipalities: Železniki to the northeast, Gorenja vas-Poljanej to the east, Idrija to the south, Tolmin to the west and northwest.

Tolmin		Železniki
Tolmin		Gorenja vas-Poljanej
	Cerkno

	Idrija

The main river in the municipality is the Idrijca river. The Cerknica is a small river, tributary of the Idrijca, that flows through the town of Cerkno.

History

Historically, the Cerkno Hills region was part of the Tolmin County. In the 16th century, the area came under the rule of the House of Habsburg. After the end of World War I, the area was occupied by the Italian Army, and then officially annexed to Italy in 1920.

Saint Anne's Church

Settlements

There are 30 settlements (Slovene: Naselja) in the municipality; the main is Cerkno, which is the administrative centre of the municipality.

Code	Settlement	Population (2017)
014001	Bukovo	176
014002	Cerkljanski Vrh	57
014003	Cerkno	1493
014004	Čeplez	75
014005	Dolenji Novaki	208
014006	Gorenji Novaki	235
014007	Gorje	79
014008	Jagršče	23
014009	Jazne	112
014010	Jesenica	74
014011	Labinje	89
014012	Lazec	120
014013	Orehek	68
014014	Otalež	133
014015	Planina pri Cerknem	130

Code	Settlement	Population (2017)
014016	Plužnje	110
014017	Poče	90
014018	Podlanišče	152
014019	Podpleče	18
014020	Police	21
014021	Poljane	70
014022	Ravne pri Cerknem	159
014023	Reka	76
014024	Straža	120
014025	Šebrelje	288
014026	Trebenče	89
014027	Zakojca	47
014028	Zakriž	188
014029	Laznica	40
014030	Travnik	62

Tourism

Cerkno is well known for the Laufarija carnival, a festival during spring with carved wooden masks, and also by the Franja Partisan Hospital (Slovene: Partizanska bolnica Franja), a hospital from World War II, that is to northeast of the town of Cerkno and to the west of Dolenji Novaki.