Istria
Istria is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea. Located at the top of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Kvarner Gulf, the peninsula is shared by three countries: Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy, 90% of its area being part of Croatia.
Photo: Orlovic, Public domain.- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula on the Adriatic Sea
- Also known as: “Histerreich”, “Histrien”, “Istria (halvö)”, “Mark Istrien”, “Markgrafschaft Istrien”, and “شبه جزيرة إستريا”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belavići and Bratulići.
Istria
- Category: landform
- Location: Croatia, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45° north
Longitude
14° east
Elevation
197 metres (646 feet)
Open location code
8FQP2222+22
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Istria” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Istria”
- Arabic: “إستريا”
- Aragonese: “Peninsula d’Istria”
- Armenian: “Իստրիա”
- Azerbaijani: “İstriya”
- Basque: “Istria”
- Belarusian: “Істрыя”
- Bosnian: “Istra”
- Breton: “Istria”
- Bulgarian: “Истрия”
- Catalan: “Regió d’Ístria”
- Cebuano: “Istria (lawis)”
- Cebuano: “Istria”
- Chinese: “伊斯特拉半島”
- Chinese: “伊斯特里亞半島”
- Croatian: “Istra”
- Czech: “Istrie”
- Danish: “Istrien”
- Dutch: “Istrië”
- Esperanto: “Istrio”
- Estonian: “Istria”
- Finnish: “Istria”
- French: “Istrie”
- Friulian: “Istrie”
- Galician: “Istria”
- Georgian: “ისტრია”
- German: “Istrien”
- Greek: “Ίστρια”
- Hebrew: “איסטריה”
- Hindi: “इस्ट्रिया”
- Hungarian: “Isztriai-félsziget”
- Icelandic: “Istría”
- Indonesian: “Istria”
- Irish: “Istria”
- Italian: “Istria”
- Japanese: “イストリア半島”
- Kazakh: “Истрия”
- Kirghiz: “Истрия”
- Korean: “이스트라반도”
- Latin: “Histria”
- Latvian: “Istras pussala”
- Lithuanian: “Istrija”
- Lombard: “Istria”
- Luxembourgish: “Istrien”
- Macedonian: “Истра”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Istria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Istria”
- Norwegian: “Istria”
- Ossetian: “Истри”
- Persian: “ایستریا”
- Polish: “Istria”
- Portuguese: “Ístria”
- Romanian: “Istria”
- Romanian: “Peninsula Istria”
- Russian: “Истрия”
- Sardinian: “Ìstria”
- Serbian: “Истра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istra”
- Silesian: “Istryjo”
- Slovak: “Istria”
- Slovenian: “Istra”
- Spanish: “Istria”
- Swedish: “Istrien”
- Thai: “อิสเตรีย”
- Turkish: “İstirya”
- Ukrainian: “Істрія”
- Urdu: “ایستریا”
- Venetian: “Istria”
- Vietnamese: “Istria”
- Welsh: “Istria”
- Wu Chinese: “伊斯特拉半岛”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kujići and Prodol.
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