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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Town Krk and Baška.
Town Krk
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The Town Krk is the administrative and political centre of the island of Krk in Croatia. Old town is inside the town walls built in Roman times and in the middle ages.
Baška
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Baška is situated in the valley of the same name at the very southeast of the island of Krk in Croatia. The bet known feature of the area is its 1800-m-long pebble beach, the longest, and the largest one on part of the Adriatic sea.
Vrbnik
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Vrbnik is a picturesque town on high cliff above the sea. It is a place of good wine "Vrbnička žlahtina".
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Punat and Malinska.
Punat
Punat lies on the eastern coast of the bay of Punat on the island of Krk in Croatia. It is well protected against storm, as well as the whole bay of Punat.
Malinska
Malinska is a little picturesque town on the north-west side of the island of Krk in Croatia. Malinska abounds in vegetation, coves and beaches which are known by the crystally clear adriatic sea.
Njivice
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Njivice is a town in Croatia. It was once a small fishermen's village and is now a famous tourist centre today. They have a long tradition of private accommodation. The vegetation extends all the way to the sea and the entire coast is one large beach.
Krk
- Type: island with 6,820 residents
- Description: island of Croatia
- Also known as: “Krk Island”, “Town of Krk”, and “Veglia”
- Location: Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Kvarner, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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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”
- Armenian: “Կուրիկտա”
- Armenian: “Վելյիա”
- Armenian: “Վիկլա”
- Asturian: “Krk”
- Basque: “Krk”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Крк”
- Belarusian: “Крк”
- Bosnian: “Krk”
- Breton: “Krk”
- Bulgarian: “Крък”
- Catalan: “Krk”
- Catalan: “Veglia”
- Cebuano: “Otok Krk”
- Chinese: “克爾克”
- Chinese: “克爾克島”
- Croatian: “Grad Krk”
- Croatian: “Krk”
- Czech: “Krk”
- Danish: “Krk”
- Dutch: “Krk”
- Dutch: “Veglia”
- Esperanto: “Krk”
- Esperanto: “Veglia”
- Estonian: “Krki saar”
- Finnish: “Krk”
- French: “Krk”
- French: “Veglia”
- Galician: “Krk”
- Georgian: “კრკი”
- German: “Krk”
- German: “Veglia”
- Greek: “Κρκ”
- Greek: “Κύρικον”
- Greek: “Κυρικτική”
- Hebrew: “קרק”
- Hungarian: “Krk”
- Icelandic: “Krk”
- Indonesian: “Krk”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Krk”
- Interlingue: “Krk”
- Italian: “Isola di Curicta”
- Italian: “Isola di Krk”
- Italian: “Isola di Veglia”
- Italian: “Krk”
- Italian: “Vegia”
- Italian: “Veglia”
- Japanese: “クルク島”
- Javanese: “Krk”
- Korean: “크르크섬”
- Latin: “Curicta”
- Latin: “Vegla”
- Latvian: “Krka”
- Lithuanian: “Krk”
- Lithuanian: “Krkas”
- Lithuanian: “Veglia”
- Macedonian: “Крк”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krk”
- Norwegian: “Krk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Krk”
- Ossetian: “Крк”
- Persian: “کرک”
- Polish: “Krk”
- Portuguese: “Krk”
- Portuguese: “Veglia”
- Romanian: “Krk”
- Russian: “Veglia”
- Russian: “Крк”
- Scots: “Krk”
- Serbian: “Крк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krk”
- Slovak: “Krk”
- Slovenian: “Krk”
- Spanish: “Krk”
- Swedish: “Krk”
- Swedish: “Veglia”
- Thai: “เกาะเกิร์ก”
- Turkish: “Krk”
- Ukrainian: “Veglia”
- Ukrainian: “Крк”
- Upper Sorbian: “Krk”
- Venetian: “Vegia”
- Vietnamese: “Krk”
- “Curicum”
- “Krk”
- “Vegia”
- “Veglia”
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