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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of Croatia
- Also known as: “Isola Lissa”, “Lissa”, and “Ostrvo Vis”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tito’s Cave and Mount Hum.
Mount Hum
Peak
Photo: Ex13, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Hum is a mountain located on the island of Vis, Croatia. It is the highest elevation point of Vis with its 587 metres. A military radar station is located on the top and the peak is not accessible to civilians.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vis and Komiža.
Vis
Town
Photo: Minestrone, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vis is a town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. Its population was 1,934 as of 2011. The town is the seat of the eponymous Vis municipality, one of the island's two municipalities.
Komiža
Town
Photo: ModriDirkac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Komiža is a Croatian coastal town lying on the western coast of the island of Vis in the central part of the Adriatic Sea. Komiža is located at the foot of the Hum hill.
Podšpilje
Village
Podšpilje is a village in Croatia on the island of Vis. It is connected by the D117 highway.
Vis
- Categories: polis and landform
- Location: Split-Dalmatia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Vis from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Bulgarian: “Иса”
- Catalan: “Illa de Lissa”
- Catalan: “Issa (illa)”
- Catalan: “Lissa”
- Catalan: “Vis”
- Cebuano: “Otok Vis”
- Chinese: “維斯島”
- Chinese: “维斯岛”
- Croatian: “Vis”
- Czech: “Vis”
- Danish: “Vis”
- Dutch: “Lissa”
- Dutch: “Vis”
- Esperanto: “Lissa”
- Esperanto: “Vis”
- Finnish: “Vis”
- French: “Île de Vis”
- French: “Lissa”
- French: “Lisse”
- French: “Vis”
- French: “Vis/Lisse”
- German: “Lissa”
- German: “Vis”
- Greek: “Βις”
- Hebrew: “ויס (אי)”
- Hebrew: “ויס”
- Hungarian: “Vis”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Vis”
- Indonesian: “Vis”
- Italian: “Isola di Lissa”
- Italian: “Lissa”
- Italian: “Vis”
- Japanese: “ヴィス島”
- Japanese: “ヴィズ島”
- Japanese: “リッサ島”
- Korean: “비스섬”
- Latin: “Issa”
- Latvian: “Visa”
- Lithuanian: “Lissa”
- Lithuanian: “Vis”
- Lithuanian: “Visa”
- Lombard: “Lissa”
- Macedonian: “Вис”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øya Vis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Issa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lissa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Vis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vis”
- Norwegian: “Vis”
- Persian: “ویس”
- Polish: “Vis”
- Portuguese: “Lissa”
- Portuguese: “Vis”
- Romanian: “Vis”
- Russian: “Вис”
- Russian: “Лисса”
- Scots: “Vis”
- Serbian: “Vis”
- Serbian: “Вис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vis”
- Slovak: “Vis”
- Slovenian: “Vis”
- Spanish: “Lissa”
- Spanish: “Vis”
- Swedish: “Lissa”
- Swedish: “Vis”
- Turkish: “Vis”
- Ukrainian: “Вис”
- Ukrainian: “Віс”
- Ukrainian: “Лисса”
- Upper Sorbian: “Lissa”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vis”
- “Lissa”
- “Vis”
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