Istria
Istria is the north-westernmost region of Croatia. In a triangular shape, it is bordered in the north by Slovenia, east by the Kvarner region of Croatia and on the south and west by the Adriatic Sea.
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Istria
- Type: County with 195,000 residents
- Description: county in Croatia
- Also known as: “Contae Istria”, “County of Istria”, “HR-18”, “HR036”, “Istria County”, “Istria Crótach”, “Истриа төбәге”, and “イスタルスカ郡”
- Categories: county of Croatia and locality
- Location: Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
45.1855° or 45° 11′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
13.909° or 13° 54′ 33″ east
Population
195,000
Elevation
333 metres (1,093 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Istria” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Zhupania e Istrës”
- Amharic: “ኢስትሪያ”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة إستريا”
- Aragonese: “Condato d’Istria”
- Aragonese: “Condau d’Istria”
- Armenian: “Իստրիա”
- Azerbaijani: “İstriya jupaniyası”
- Azerbaijani: “İstriya”
- Basque: “Istria eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Істрыйская жупанія”
- Bengali: “ইস্ট্রিয়া”
- Bengali: “ইস্ত্রিয়া কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Istarska županija”
- Bulgarian: “Истрийска жупания”
- Catalan: “Comtat d’Ístria”
- Cebuano: “Istarska Županija”
- Chinese: “伊斯特拉县”
- Chinese: “伊斯特拉縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Istri”
- Croatian: “Istarska županija”
- Croatian: “Istarska”
- Croatian: “Istra”
- Czech: “Istrijská župa”
- Danish: “Istria County”
- Danish: “Istria distrikt”
- Dutch: “Istrië”
- Esperanto: “Istrio”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Istrio”
- Estonian: “Istra maakond”
- Finnish: “Istrian piirikunta”
- French: “Comitat d’Istrie”
- French: “Istrie”
- Galician: “Condado de Istria”
- Georgian: “ისტრია”
- German: “Gespanschaft Istrien”
- German: “Istrien”
- Greek: “Ζουπανία της Ίστριας”
- Gujarati: “આઇસ્ટ્રિયા કાઉન્ટી”
- Hausa: “Istria”
- Hindi: “इस्ट्रिया काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Isztria megye”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Istria”
- Interlingua: “Provincia histrian”
- Irish: “an Istria Chrótach”
- Irish: “An Istria Chrótach”
- Italian: “Istria”
- Italian: “regione istriana”
- Italian: “Regione istriana”
- Japanese: “イストラ郡”
- Japanese: “イストリア県”
- Javanese: “Istria”
- Kannada: “ಇಸ್ಟ್ರಿಯಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Kazakh: “Истрия жупаниясы”
- Kazakh: “Истрия”
- Kirghiz: “Истрия”
- Korean: “이스트라 주”
- Korean: “이스트라주”
- Latin: “Histriana”
- Latvian: “Istrijas župānija”
- Lithuanian: “Istrijos apskritis”
- Lombard: “Region istriana”
- Macedonian: “Истарска жупанија”
- Macedonian: “Истарска Жупанија”
- Malay: “Istria County”
- Malay: “Istria”
- Marathi: “इस्रीया काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Istria Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Istrien”
- Northern Sami: “Istria guovlu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Istria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fylket Istria”
- Norwegian: “Istria”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat d’Istria”
- Oromo: “Istria”
- Ossetian: “Истрийы жупани”
- Panjabi: “ਇਸਟ੍ਰੀਆ”
- Persian: “ایستریا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ایستریا”
- Polish: “Żupania istryjska”
- Portuguese: “Condado da Ístria”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Ístria”
- Portuguese: “Ístria”
- Pushto: “ایستریا”
- Romanian: “Cantonul Istria”
- Romanian: “Istria”
- Russian: “Истарска”
- Russian: “Истрийская жупания”
- Russian: “Истрия”
- Serbian: “Истарска жупанија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istarska županija”
- Sinhala: “ඉස්ට්රියා ප්රාන්තය, ක්රොඒෂියාව”
- Sinhala: “ඉස්ට්රියා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Istrijská župa”
- Slovenian: “Istra”
- Slovenian: “Istrska županija”
- Somali: “Istria”
- Spanish: “Condado de Istria”
- Spanish: “Istria”
- Swahili: “Istria”
- Swedish: “Istrien”
- Swedish: “Istriens län”
- Tajik: “Истриё”
- Tajik: “Истрия”
- Tamil: “இஸ்திரியா கவுண்டி”
- Tatar: “Истарска жупаниясе”
- Tatar: “Истрия”
- Telugu: “ఇస్ట్రియా కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลอิสเตรีย”
- Turkish: “Istria”
- Turkish: “İstriya”
- Ukrainian: “Істрійська жупанія”
- Urdu: “استریا کاؤنٹی”
- Urdu: “ایستریا کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Istriya”
- Venetian: “Rejon istriana”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Istria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Istria”
- Welsh: “Sir Istria”
- Western Armenian: “Իսթրիա”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع استریا”
- Wu Chinese: “伊斯特拉县”
- “Istra”
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