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Primorje-Gorski Kotar County

Rijeka

Rijeka is a city in Bay, a northern inlet of the Adriatic Sea in . 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 's third largest city.
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  • Type: City with 108,000 residents
  • Description: city and settlement in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia
  • Also known as: “Fiume” and “Pflaum”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ivan Zajc Croatian National Theatre and Palace Modello.

Theater building
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The Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka, commonly referred to as HNK Zajc, is a theatre, opera and ballet house located in Rijeka.

Manor estate
Photo: RijekaPhotos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was built in 1885 in Rijeka, Croatia, on the place of the destroyed and demolished Adamichev theater. The palace was designed by the Viennese buro Fellner & Helmer led by Ferdinand Fellner and Herman Helmer.

Church
Photo: Roberta F., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St. Vitus Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Rijeka, . In the Middle Ages, the Church of St. Vitus was a small and one-sided, Romanesque church dedicated to the patron saint and protector of Rijeka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kozala and Trsat.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is part of the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with a in a strategic location and several historic churches, in one of which the Croatian noble Prince Vuk Krsto Frankopan is buried.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Rijeka

Latitude
45.3268° or 45° 19′ 37″ north
Longitude
14.4422° or 14° 26′ 32″ east
Population
108,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
RJK
United Nations Location Code
HR RJK
Open location code
8FQP8CGR+PV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29098860
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3191648
Wiki­data ID
Q1647
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Rijeka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rijeka”
  • Albanian: “Rieka”
  • Albanian: “Rijeka”
  • Arabic: “رييكا”
  • Armenian: “Ռիեկա”
  • Asturian: “Rijeka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Riyeka”
  • Basque: “Rijeka”
  • Belarusian: “Рыека”
  • Bengali: “রিজেকা”
  • Bosnian: “Rijeka”
  • Breton: “Rijeka”
  • Bulgarian: “Риека”
  • Catalan: “Rijeka”
  • Cebuano: “Grad Rijeka”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕیێکا”
  • Chechen: “Риека”
  • Chinese: “里耶卡”
  • Chuvash: “Риека”
  • Croatian: “Fiume”
  • Croatian: “Rijeka”
  • Czech: “Rijeka”
  • Danish: “Rijeka”
  • Dutch: “Rijeka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رييكا”
  • Esperanto: “Rijeko”
  • Estonian: “Rijeka”
  • Finnish: “Rijeka”
  • French: “Fiume”
  • French: “Rijeka”
  • Galician: “Fiume”
  • Galician: “Rijeka”
  • Georgian: “რიეკა”
  • German: “Fiume”
  • German: “Rijeka”
  • German: “Sankt Veith am Flaum”
  • German: “Sankt Veith am Pflaum”
  • German: “Sankt Veit am Flaum” (historical)
  • German: “Sankt Veit am Pflaum” (historical)
  • Greek: “Πφλάουμ”
  • Greek: “Ριέκα”
  • Greek: “Φιούμε”
  • Gujarati: “રિયેકા”
  • Hausa: “Rijeka”
  • Hebrew: “רייקה”
  • Hindi: “रिजेका”
  • Hungarian: “Fiume”
  • Hungarian: “Flumen”
  • Hungarian: “Rijeka”
  • Hungarian: “Sankt Veit am Flaum”
  • Hungarian: “Vitopolis”
  • Icelandic: “Rijeka”
  • Ido: “Rijeka”
  • Indonesian: “Rijeka”
  • Interlingue: “Rijeka”
  • Irish: “Rijeka”
  • Italian: “Fiume”
  • Italian: “Rijeka”
  • Japanese: “リイェカ”
  • Japanese: “リエカ”
  • Javanese: “Rijeka”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಜೆಕ”
  • Korean: “리예카”
  • Latin: “Fanum Sancti Viti Fluminiensis”
  • Latin: “Fanum Sancti Viti”
  • Latin: “Flumen Sancti Viti”
  • Latin: “Flumen”
  • Latin: “Tarsatica”
  • Latin: “Tarsaticum”
  • Latin: “Tharsatica”
  • Latin: “Tharsaticum”
  • Latin: “Vitipolis”
  • Latin: “Vitopolis”
  • Latvian: “Rijeka”
  • Ligurian: “Rijeka”
  • Ligurian: “Sciumme”
  • Lithuanian: “Rijeka”
  • Lombard: “Fiüm (Cruazia)”
  • Lombard: “Fium”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Rijeka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rijeka”
  • Macedonian: “Риека”
  • Malay: “Rijeka”
  • Maltese: “Fiume”
  • Maltese: “Rijeka”
  • Marathi: “रियेका”
  • Mingrelian: “რიეკა”
  • Moksha: “Риека”
  • Nauru: “Rijeka”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rijeka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rijeka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rijeka”
  • Norwegian: “Rijeka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rijeka”
  • Ossetian: “Риекæ”
  • Persian: “رییکا”
  • Polish: “Rijeka”
  • Portuguese: “Fiume”
  • Portuguese: “Riéca”
  • Portuguese: “Rijeka”
  • Romanian: “Rijeka”
  • Russian: “Река”
  • Russian: “Ржека”
  • Russian: “Риека”
  • Russian: “Фиуме”
  • Russian: “Флаум”
  • Rusyn: “Риека”
  • Sardinian: “Rijeka”
  • Scots: “Rijeka”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rijeka”
  • Serbian: “Rijeka”
  • Serbian: “Ријека”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rijeka”
  • Silesian: “Rijeka”
  • Sinhala: “රිජේකා, ක්‍රොඒෂියාව”
  • Sinhala: “රිජේකා”
  • Slovak: “Rijeka”
  • Slovenian: “Fiume”
  • Slovenian: “Reka, Hrvaška”
  • Slovenian: “Reka”
  • Slovenian: “Rijeka”
  • Southern Sotho: “Rijeka”
  • Spanish: “Rijeka”
  • Swahili: “Rijeka”
  • Swedish: “Rijeka”
  • Tamil: “ரிஜெகா”
  • Tatar: “Риека”
  • Telugu: “రిజెక”
  • Thai: “ริเยกา”
  • Thai: “รีเยกา”
  • Turkish: “Feyomi”
  • Turkish: “Fiume”
  • Turkish: “Rijeka”
  • Turkish: “Sankt Veit am Flaum”
  • Turkish: “Sankt Veit am Pflaum”
  • Ukrainian: “Рієка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rijeka”
  • Urdu: “ریئکا”
  • Uzbek: “Riyeka”
  • Venetian: “Fiume”
  • Veps: “Rijek”
  • Vietnamese: “Rijeka”
  • Volapük: “Rijeka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rijeka”
  • Welsh: “Rijeka”
  • Wu Chinese: “里耶卡”
  • Yue Chinese: “里耶卡”
  • “Fiume”
  • “Rijeka”
  • “Риєка”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Rijeka”. Photo: Грищук ЮН, CC BY-SA 3.0.