Hvar
Hvar is an island off the coast of Croatia with a population of about 11,000 people. Imposing fortifications hover above the fluid blend of grey stone and orange cascading roofs.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 361 metres (1,184 feet)
- …is also known as “Ostrvo Hvar”
- Description: island of Croatia
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grapčeva Cave and St. Ivan’s (St. John’s) Church.
Grapčeva Cave
Cave
Grapčeva Cave is a Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Municipality of Jelsa and Humac.
Municipality of Jelsa
Village
Jelsa is a town in Croatia, on the island of Hvar, the…
Hvar
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
43.1408° or 43° 8′ 27″ north
Longitude
16.7283° or 16° 43′ 42″ east
Open location code
8FMR4PRH+88
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Hvar” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Hvari”
- Arabic: “هفار”
- Armenian: “Խվար”
- Azerbaijani: “Hvar”
- Basque: “Hvar”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Хвар”
- Belarusian: “Хвар (востраў)”
- Belarusian: “Хвар”
- Bosnian: “Hvar”
- Breton: “Hvar”
- Bulgarian: “Хвар”
- Catalan: “Hvar”
- Cebuano: “Otok Hvar”
- Chinese: “赫瓦尔岛”
- Chinese: “赫瓦爾島”
- Croatian: “Hvar”
- Croatian: “Otok Hvar”
- Czech: “Hvar”
- Danish: “Hvar”
- Dutch: “Hvar”
- Esperanto: “Hvar”
- Esperanto: “Lesina”
- Estonian: “Hvar”
- Finnish: “Hvar”
- French: “Hvar”
- French: “Île de Hvar”
- German: “Hvar”
- Greek: “Χβαρ”
- Hebrew: “האי חוואר”
- Hebrew: “חוואר”
- Hindi: “ह्वार”
- Hungarian: “Hvar”
- Icelandic: “Hvar”
- Indonesian: “Hvar”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Hvar”
- Interlingue: “Hvar”
- Italian: “Hvar”
- Italian: “Isola di Lesina” (historical)
- Italian: “Lesina” (historical)
- Japanese: “フヴァル島”
- Kazakh: “Хвар”
- Korean: “흐바르섬”
- Ladin: “Hvar”
- Latin: “Pharia”
- Latvian: “Hvara (sala)”
- Latvian: “Hvara”
- Lithuanian: “Hvaras”
- Luxembourgish: “Hvar”
- Macedonian: “Хвар”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvar”
- Norwegian: “Hvar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hvar”
- Persian: “خوار”
- Polish: “Hvar”
- Portuguese: “Hvar”
- Romanian: “Hvar”
- Russian: “Хвар”
- Scots: “Hvar”
- Serbian: “Hvar”
- Serbian: “Хвар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hvar”
- Slovak: “Hvar”
- Slovenian: “Hvar”
- Spanish: “Hvar”
- Spanish: “Lesina”
- Swedish: “Hvar”
- Thai: “เกาะควาร์”
- Thai: “เกาะฮวาร์”
- Turkish: “Hvar”
- Ukrainian: “Хвар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hvar”
- Venetian: “Ixoła de Łexina”
- Venetian: “Ìzoła de Łezina”
- Vietnamese: “Hvar”
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