Balkans
Croatia
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County

Risnjak

Risnjak is a mountain in the , in , . It belongs to the Dinaric Alps mountain range. The name of the massif probably comes from ris, the Croatian word for lynx.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,528 metres
  • Description: mountain in Croatia
  • Also known as: “Veliki Risnjak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Snježnik.

Peak
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is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bela Vodica and Zelin Crnoluški.

Village
is a settlement in the City of in . In 2021, its population was 28.

Hamlet
is a settlement in the City of in . In 2021, its population was 0.

Village
is a settlement in the City of in . In 2021, its population was 40.

Risnjak

Latitude
45.43153° or 45° 25′ 54″ north
Longitude
14.62139° or 14° 37′ 17″ east
Elevation
1,528 metres (5,013 feet)
Open location code
8FQPCJJC+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1285510635
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3188003
Wiki­data ID
Q1519978
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Risnjak” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل ريسنجاك”
  • Bosnian: “Risnjak”
  • Cebuano: “Veliki Risnjak”
  • Chinese: “里斯尼亚克”
  • Croatian: “Risnjak”
  • Czech: “Risnjak”
  • Dutch: “Risnjak”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ريسنجاك”
  • French: “Risnjak”
  • German: “Risnjak”
  • German: “Veliki Risnjak”
  • Greek: “Ρίσνιακ”
  • Hungarian: “Risnjak”
  • Italian: “Risnjak”
  • Japanese: “リスニャク山”
  • Ladin: “Risnjak”
  • Persian: “ریسنجک”
  • Polish: “Risnjak”
  • Russian: “Рисняк”
  • Serbian: “Рисњак”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Risnjak”
  • Slovenian: “Risnjak”
  • Swedish: “Risnjak”
  • Swedish: “Veliki Risnjak”
  • Venetian: “Risnjak”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Risnjak”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.