Rupa
Rupa is a village in northwest Croatia near its border with Slovenia. It is located in Matulji municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, 17 km from the town of Matulji.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 349 residents
- Description: settlement in the Municipality of Matulji, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia
- Also known as: “Rupa, Croatia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lipa Remembers Memorial Centre and Šapjane station.
Lipa Remembers Memorial Centre
Museum
Photo: Vanagovic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The "Lipa Remembers" Memorial Centre is a museum commemorating the killing of 269 civilians - mostly elderly, women and children - in April 1944 in Lipa, a village near Rijeka, Croatia.
Šapjane station
Railway station
Photo: Stefan Flöper, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Šapjane station is a railway station, which is situated 3 km west of Rupa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lipa and Jelšane.
Lipa
Village
Photo: Goran Moravček, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lipa is a village near Matulji, Croatia. In the 2021 census, it had 109 inhabitants. The Lipa Remembers Memorial Centre is located in the village.
Jelšane
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Jelšane is a village in the Municipality of Ilirska Bistrica in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia, right on the border with Croatia. The Jelšane international border crossing between Slovenia and Croatia is just south of the village. Jelšane is situated 2½ km north of Rupa.
Šapjane
Village
Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Šapjane is a village, which is situated 2½ km west of Rupa.
Rupa
- Categories: settlement in Croatia, border city, and locality
- Location: Municipality of Matulji, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
45.48017° or 45° 28′ 49″ northLongitude
14.28394° or 14° 17′ 2″ eastPopulation
349Elevation
452 metres (1,483 feet)United Nations Location Code
HR RUPOpen location code
8FQPF7JM+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1574489249OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Rupa” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Rupa”
- Croatian: “Rupa”
- Czech: “Rupa”
- Czech: “Ruppa”
- Dutch: “Rupa, Matulji”
- German: “Rupa”
- Hungarian: “Rupa”
- Hungarian: “Ruppa”
- Italian: “Ruppa”
- Polish: “Rupa (Chorwacja)”
- Polish: “Rupa”
- Serbian: “Рупа (Матуљи)”
- Serbian: “Рупа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rupa”
- Slovak: “Rupa”
- Slovenian: “Rupa, Matulji”
- Slovenian: “Rupa”
- Spanish: “Rupa”
- Swedish: “Rupa”
- Ukrainian: “Рупа (Матулі)”
- Ukrainian: “Рупа”
- “Rupa”
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Notable Places Nearby
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