Vis
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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island of Croatia
- Also known as: “Île de Vis”, “Illa de Lissa”, “Isola di Lissa”, “Isola Lissa”, “Issa (illa)”, “Lisse”, “Mint of Issa”, “Ostrvo Vis”, “Vis/Lisse”, “Иса”, “Лисса”, “ヴィズ島”, and “リッサ島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tito’s Cave and Mount Hum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vis and Komiža.
Vis
- Categories: polis and landform
- Location: Split-Dalmatia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.045° or 43° 2′ 42″ north
Longitude
16.1517° or 16° 9′ 6″ east
Elevation
332 metres (1,089 feet)
Open location code
8FMR25W2+2M
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Upper Sorbian—“Vis” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Visi”
- Arabic: “فيس”
- Bashkir: “Вис (утрау)”
- Bashkir: “Вис”
- Belarusian: “Віс”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Віс”
- Bosnian: “Vis”
- Breton: “Vis”
- Bulgarian: “Вис”
- Catalan: “Lissa”
- Catalan: “Vis”
- Cebuano: “Otok Vis”
- Chinese: “維斯島”
- Chinese: “维斯岛”
- Croatian: “Vis”
- Czech: “Vis”
- Danish: “Vis”
- Dutch: “Vis”
- Esperanto: “Vis”
- Finnish: “Vis”
- French: “Vis”
- German: “Vis”
- Greek: “Βις”
- Hebrew: “ויס (אי)”
- Hebrew: “ויס”
- Hungarian: “Vis”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Vis”
- Indonesian: “Vis”
- Italian: “Lissa”
- Japanese: “ヴィス島”
- Korean: “비스섬”
- Latin: “Issa”
- Latvian: “Visa”
- Lithuanian: “Visa”
- Lombard: “Lissa”
- Macedonian: “Вис”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Vis”
- Norwegian: “Vis”
- Persian: “ویس”
- Polish: “Vis”
- Portuguese: “Vis”
- Romanian: “Vis”
- Russian: “Вис”
- Scots: “Vis”
- Serbian: “Vis”
- Serbian: “Вис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vis”
- Slovak: “Vis”
- Slovenian: “Vis”
- Spanish: “Vis”
- Swedish: “Vis”
- Turkish: “Vis”
- Ukrainian: “Вис”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vis”
- “Vis”
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