Krk
Krk is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. Krk is tied with Cres as the largest Adriatic island, depending on the methodology used to measure the coastline.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Town Krk and Baška.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Punat and Malinska.
Malinska
Malinska is a little picturesque town on the north-west side of the island of Krk in Croatia.
Krk
- Type: island with 6,820 residents
- Description: island of Croatia
- Also known as: “Curicum”, “Isola di Curicta”, “Isola di Krk”, “Isola di Veglia”, “Krk Island”, “Town of Krk”, “Κύρικον”, “Κυρικτική”, “Կուրիկտա”, “Վելյիա”, and “Վիկլա”
- Category: Natura 2000 site
- Location: Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Kvarner, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
45.0283° or 45° 1′ 42″ north
Longitude of center
14.5723° or 14° 34′ 20″ east
Population
6,820
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Krk” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Krk”
- Arabic: “جزيرة كرك”
- Armenian: “Կըրկ”
- Asturian: “Krk”
- Basque: “Krk”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Крк”
- Belarusian: “Крк”
- Bosnian: “Krk”
- Breton: “Krk”
- Bulgarian: “Крък”
- Catalan: “Krk”
- Cebuano: “Otok Krk”
- Chinese: “克爾克”
- Chinese: “克爾克島”
- Croatian: “Grad Krk”
- Croatian: “Krk”
- Czech: “Krk”
- Danish: “Krk”
- Dutch: “Krk”
- Esperanto: “Krk”
- Estonian: “Krki saar”
- Finnish: “Krk”
- French: “Krk”
- Galician: “Krk”
- Georgian: “კრკი”
- German: “Krk”
- Greek: “Κρκ”
- Hebrew: “קרק”
- Hungarian: “Krk”
- Icelandic: “Krk”
- Indonesian: “Krk”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Krk”
- Interlingue: “Krk”
- Italian: “Veglia”
- Japanese: “クルク島”
- Javanese: “Krk”
- Korean: “크르크섬”
- Latin: “Curicta”
- Latin: “Vegla”
- Latvian: “Krka”
- Lithuanian: “Krkas”
- Macedonian: “Крк”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krk”
- Norwegian: “Krk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Krk”
- Ossetian: “Крк”
- Persian: “کرک”
- Polish: “Krk”
- Portuguese: “Krk”
- Romanian: “Krk”
- Romanian: “Otok Krk”
- Russian: “Крк”
- Scots: “Krk”
- Serbian: “Крк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krk”
- Slovak: “Krk”
- Slovenian: “Krk”
- Spanish: “Krk”
- Swedish: “Krk”
- Thai: “เกาะเกิร์ก”
- Turkish: “Krk”
- Ukrainian: “Крк”
- Upper Sorbian: “Krk”
- Venetian: “Vegia”
- Vietnamese: “Krk”
- “Krk”
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