Kvarner
Kvarner and Highlands is a region of Croatia including the seashore and highlands north of Dalmatia and connects Istria with the rest of Croatia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Rijeka and Plitvice Lakes National Park.
Rijeka
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Rijeka is a city in Kvarner Bay, a northern inlet of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. It is the principal seaport of the country. It had about 129,000 inhabitants in 2011, with the greater city area reaching up to 200,000, and is Croatia's third largest city.
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia is one of the most beautiful natural sights in Europe. Due to its beauty and significance, this system of 16 interlinked lakes and a large forest complex around it were set aside as a national park in 1949.
Cres
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Cres is an Adriatic island in west Croatia. It is one of the northern islands in the Kvarner Gulf and can be reached via ferry from Rijeka, Krk island or from the Istrian peninsula.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Krk and Opatija.
Krk
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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.
Opatija
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Opatija is a city in the Istrian Peninsula in western Croatia and is the main tourist city on Liburnia riviera. It is around 13 km southwest of Rijeka, one of Croatia's largest cities.
Pag
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Pag is an island in Kvarner rerion of Croatia with a surface area of 284.56 km2. The island is a popular destination among the tourists who are looking for beautiful sandy beaches.
Senj
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Senj is a town with a population of around 8,000 on the Adriatic coast of Kvarner region of Croatia.
Rab
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Rab is an island in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in Croatia, located just off the northern Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea. The island is 22 km long, has an area of 93.6 km2 and 7,161 inhabitants.
Lošinj
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Lošinj is an island in the Kvarner region of Croatia with a surface area of 128,5 km2 and about 10,000 inhabitants. The island has around 2600 hours of sunshine a year.
Crikvenica
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Crikvenica is a tourist resort in the Kvarner region of Croatia, 40 km south of Rijeka.
Unije
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Unije is an island in Croatia. It is part of the Cres-Lošinj archipelago, which is situated at the northern portion of the Adriatic Sea. Unije is the third largest island of the archipelago.
Kvarner
- Type: Gulf
- Description: bay in Croatia
- Also known as: “Golfo di Quarnaro”, “Gulf of Quarnero”, “Kvarner Gulf”, and “Veliki Kvarner”
- Historically known as: “Great Quarnero Channel”
- Categories: gulf and bay
- Location: Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kvarner” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خليج كفارنير”
- Arabic: “خليج كفرنر”
- Basque: “Kvarneko golkoa”
- Bosnian: “Kvarner”
- Bulgarian: “Кварнер”
- Catalan: “Carnaro”
- Catalan: “Kvarner”
- Cebuano: “Kvarner”
- Chinese: “克瓦內爾灣”
- Chinese: “克瓦内尔”
- Croatian: “Kvarnerski zaljev”
- Czech: “Kvarnerský záliv”
- Danish: “Kvarnerbugten”
- Dutch: “Kvarner”
- Esperanto: “Golfo de Kvarner”
- Estonian: “Kvarneri laht”
- Finnish: “Kvarnerinlahti”
- French: “baie de Kvarner”
- French: “Baie de Kvarner”
- French: “Kvarner”
- Georgian: “კვარნერის უბე”
- German: “Kvarner-Bucht”
- German: “Kvarner”
- Greek: “Κόλπος Κβάρνερ”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ קוורנר”
- Hungarian: “Kvarner-öböl”
- Italian: “Quarnaro”
- Italian: “Quarnero”
- Japanese: “クヴァルネル湾”
- Korean: “크바르네르만”
- Latin: “Quarnarium”
- Latin: “Quarnerum”
- Latin: “Sinus Carnarius”
- Latin: “Sinus Flanaticus”
- Latin: “Sinus Flanonicus”
- Latin: “Sinus Liburnicus”
- Latin: “Sinus Polaticus”
- Lithuanian: “Kvarneris”
- Macedonian: “Кварнерски Залив”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kvarnerbukta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kvarnerbukta”
- Norwegian: “Kvarnerbukta”
- Ossetian: “Кварнер”
- Persian: “خلیج کوارنر”
- Polish: “Kvarner”
- Russian: “Кварнер и Горная Хорватия”
- Russian: “Кварнер”
- Serbian: “Kvarnerski zaliv”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kvarnerski zaljev”
- Slovak: “Kvarnerský záliv”
- Slovenian: “Kvarner”
- Spanish: “Golfo de Carnaro”
- Swedish: “Kvarner (bukt i Kroatien)”
- Swedish: “Kvarnerviken”
- Ukrainian: “Кварнер”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kvarner”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kvarnerski zaliw”
- Venetian: “Golfo del Carnaro”
- Vietnamese: “Vịnh Kvarner”
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