Split-Dalmatia
Split-Dalmatia is a county within Dalmatia in Croatia, with Split itself the attractive main city. It's one of the most popular tourist regions in the country, with a riviera strip of resorts strung along its coast.Photo: Niederkasseler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Split and Trogir.
Split
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Split is a city in Central Dalmatia, Croatia, and the seat of the Split-Dalmatia county. The city was built around the Diocletian palace where the locals sought refuge centuries ago.
Trogir
Photo: Mike Karavanov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trogir is a preserved medieval town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Croatia, with a population of approximately 13,000. The medieval town is a popular day trip from Split, as it is within its metropolitan area.
Makarska
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Makarska is the main city and resort of the Makarska Riviera in Split-Dalmatia, between Split and Dubrovnik on the Adriatic coast of Croatia. It's backed by the rugged Biokovo mountains, a national park, and looks out across a channel to Brač island.
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Brač
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Brač is an island in the Adriatic Sea, in the Split-Dalmatia county of Croatia, near the city of Split. It is the largest island in Dalmatia and has a population of 14,000.
Hvar
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Hvar is an island off the coast of Croatia with a population of about 11,000 people. Imposing fortifications hover above the fluid blend of grey stone and orange cascading roofs.
Vis
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Vis is a historic and beautiful island, further from the mainland than other more famous islands such as Hvar, whilst still easy to reach. Its main town is also called Vis.
Omiš
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Omiš is a town and port in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and a municipality in the Split-Dalmatia County. The town is approximately 25 kilometres south-east of Croatia's second largest city, Split, where the Cetina River meets the Adriatic Sea.
Solta
Photo: Luboš Holič, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Solta is an island in the Split-Dalmatia county of Croatia, just to the west of the much larger island of Brac. Both are near the city of Split on the mainland.
Baska Voda
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Baška Voda is a village and a municipality in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County. It is located on the Adriatic coastline of Dalmatia, 10 kilometres northwest of Makarska.
Drvenik
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Drvenik is a coastal town of 420 people on the Makarska coast between Split and Dubrovnik, 24 km south-east from Makarska. Drvenik consists of two settlements, Gornja and Donja Vala, about a kilometre apart.
Promajna
Photo: Mario Žamić, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Promajna is a village on the Makarska Riviera in Split-Dalmatia, Croatia. It lies along a beautiful beach; the settlement provides very good opportunities for peaceful vacations and pleasant walks. The coastal promenade leads to the nearby Baska Voda.
Maslinica
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Maslinica is a village situated on the west coast of the island of Solta. It's characterized by beautiful scenery, making it the picturesque cove and pinewood in the southern side and the immediate surroundings with deep, well-protected cove Šešulom and archipelago of seven islands.
Vinisce
Photo: János Tamás, CC BY 2.0.
Vinisce is a small city in Dalmatia, Croatia. Situated in a beautiful cove between Primosten and Trogir. Most of the inhabitants are occupied with agriculture, fishing and tourism.
Bratuš
Photo: Mario Žamić, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bratus is a village in Split-Dalmatia, Croatia, close to the city of Makarska. It's a small fishing and tourist village with less than 50 inhabitants outside the holiday season.
Split-Dalmatia
- Type: County with 423,000 residents
- Description: county in Croatia
- Also known as: “County of Split and Dalmatia”, “County of Split-Dalmatia”, “HR035”, and “Split-Dalmatia County”
- Neighbors: Dubrovnik-Neretva
- Categories: county of Croatia and locality
- Location: Dalmatia, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
43.5003° or 43° 30′ 1″ northLongitude of center
16.8156° or 16° 48′ 56″ eastPopulation
423,000Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 10735255607OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Split-Dalmatia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Zhupania e Splitit dhe e Dalmacisë”
- Amharic: “ስፕሊት-ዳልማሺያ”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة أسبالطو-دلماسية”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة سبليت-دالماسيا”
- Aragonese: “Condau de Split-Dalmacia”
- Armenian: “Սպլիտսկո Դալմատինսկա”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Split-Dalmacia”
- Azerbaijani: “Split Dalmatiya”
- Azerbaijani: “Split-Dalmatiya jupaniyası”
- Azerbaijani: “Split-Dalmatiya”
- Basque: “Split-Dalmazia eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Спліцка-Далмацінская жупанія”
- Bengali: “স্প্লিট-ডালম্যাটিয়া”
- Bengali: “স্প্লিত-দাল্মেশিয়া কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Splitsko-dalmatinska županija”
- Bulgarian: “Сплитско-далматинска жупания”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Split-Dalmàcia”
- Catalan: “Split-Dalmàcia”
- Cebuano: “Splitsko-Dalmatinska Županija”
- Chinese: “Split-Dalmatia Kūn”
- Chinese: “斯普利特-达尔马提亚县”
- Chinese: “斯普利特-達爾馬提亞縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Split-Dalmati”
- Croatian: “SDŽ”
- Croatian: “Splitsko-dalmatinska županija”
- Croatian: “Splitsko-dalmatinska”
- Croatian: “Županija splitsko-dalmatinska”
- Czech: “Splitsko-dalmatská župa”
- Danish: “Split-Dalmatia County”
- Danish: “Split-Dalmatia distrikt”
- Dutch: “Split-Dalmatië”
- Esperanto: “Split-Dalmatio”
- Estonian: “Spliti-Dalmaatsia maakond”
- Finnish: “Split-Dalmatia”
- French: “Comitat de Split-Dalmatie”
- French: “Split-Dalmatie”
- German: “Gespanschaft Split-Dalmatien”
- German: “Split-Dalmatien”
- Greek: “Ζουπανία του Σπλιτ-Δαλματίας”
- Gujarati: “સ્પ્લિટ-ડલ્માટિયા કાઉન્ટી”
- Hausa: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Hindi: “स्प्लिट-डालमेशिया काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Split-Dalmácia megye”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Split-Dalmatia”
- Interlingue: “Comtia Split-Dalmatia”
- Irish: “Contae Split-Dalmatia”
- Irish: “Contae Split-na Dalmáite”
- Italian: “regione spalatino-dalmata”
- Italian: “Regione spalatino-dalmata”
- Italian: “Spalatino-dalmata”
- Japanese: “スプリット=ダルマチア県”
- Japanese: “スプリト=ダルマチア郡”
- Javanese: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಪ್ಲಿಟ್-ಡಾಲ್ಮಾಟಿಯಾ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Kazakh: “Сплит-Далматија”
- Kazakh: “Сплит-Далмация жупаниясы”
- Kirghiz: “Сплітт-Далматія”
- Korean: “스플리트달마티아 주”
- Korean: “스플리트달마티아주”
- Latin: “Spalatensis - Dalmatica”
- Latin: “Spalatensis-Dalmatica”
- Latvian: “Splitas-Dalmācijas župānija”
- Lithuanian: “Splito-Dalmatijos apskritis”
- Lithuanian: “Splito–Dalmatijos apskritis”
- Lombard: “Region spalatin-dalmata”
- Macedonian: “Сплитско-далматинска жупанија”
- Malay: “Split-Dalmatia County”
- Malay: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Maltese: “Kontea ta‘ Split-Dalmazja”
- Marathi: “स्प्लिट-डल्मॅटिया काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Split-Dalmatia Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Split-Dalmaatien”
- Northern Frisian: “Splitsko-dalmatinska županija”
- Northern Sami: “Split-Dalmatia guovlu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Norwegian: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Split-Dalmàcia”
- Oromo: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Ossetian: “Сплит-Далмацийы жупани”
- Panjabi: “ਸਪਲਿਟ-ਡਾਲਮੇਸ਼ੀਆ”
- Persian: “اسپلیت-دالماتیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان اسپلیت-دالماسی”
- Polish: “Żupania splicko-dalmatyńska”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Split-Dalmácia”
- Portuguese: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Pushto: “اسپلیت-دالماتیا”
- Romanian: “Cantonul Split-Dalmația”
- Russian: “Сплитско-Далматинска”
- Russian: “Сплитско-Далматинская жупания”
- Scots: “Split-Dalmatie Coonty”
- Scots: “Split-Dalmatie”
- Serbian: “Сплитско-далматинска жупанија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Splitsko-dalmatinska županija”
- Sinhala: “ස්ප්ලිට් ඩල්මටියා ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “ස්ප්ලිට්-ඩල්මටියා ප්රාන්තය, ක්රොඒෂියාව”
- Slovak: “Splitsko-dalmatínska župa”
- Slovenian: “Splitsko-dalmatinska županija”
- Somali: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Spanish: “Condado de Split-Dalmacia”
- Spanish: “Split-Dalmacia”
- Spanish: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Swahili: “Split-Dalmatia”
- Swedish: “Split-Dalmatien”
- Swedish: “Split-Dalmatiens län”
- Tajik: “жупанияи Сплит-Далматия”
- Tajik: “Сплит-Далматија”
- Tamil: “ஸ்ப்ளிட் -டால்மதிஆ கவுண்டி”
- Tatar: “Сплит-Далматія”
- Telugu: “స్ప్లిట్-డాల్మాటియా కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลสปลิต-แดลเมเชีย”
- Turkish: “Split-Dalmaçya”
- Ukrainian: “Сплітсько-Далматинська жупанія”
- Urdu: “سپلیت-دالماتیا کاؤنٹی”
- Uzbek: “Split-Dalmatiya”
- Venetian: “Rejon spalatin-dàlmata”
- Venetian: “Rejon spałatin-dalmata”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Split-Dalmatia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Split-Dalmatia”
- Welsh: “Sir Split-Dalmatia”
- Western Armenian: “Սփլիթ- Տալմաթիա”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سپلت دالماتیا”
- “Split-Dalmacija”
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