Vukovar
Vukovar, The Hero Town, is a city in Slavonia along the Danube River. Although the city has a long cultural history, today it is most noted for its fate during the war in the early 1990s in the former Yugoslavia and often called "The Hero Town".
- Type: Town with 22,300 residents
- Description: city in Vukovar-Srijem County, Croatia
- Also known as: “Vılkovar”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Eltz Manor and Vukovar City Museum.
Church of St. Nicholas
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sajmište and Mitnica.
Vukovar
- Categories: town in Croatia, city, and locality
- Location: Vukovar-Srijem County, Slavonia, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.3444° or 45° 20′ 40″ north
Longitude
19.0024° or 19° 0′ 9″ east
Population
22,300
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
UN/LOCODE
HR VUK
Open location code
8FQX82V2+QX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Vukovar” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vukovar”
- Albanian: “Vukovari”
- Arabic: “فوكوفار”
- Aragonese: “Vukovar”
- Armenian: “Վուկովար”
- Asturian: “Vukovar”
- Azerbaijani: “Vуkоvаr”
- Basque: “Vukovar”
- Belarusian: “Вукавар”
- Bosnian: “Vukovar”
- Breton: “Vukovar”
- Bulgarian: “Вуковар”
- Catalan: “Vukovar”
- Cebuano: “Grad Vukovar”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤوکۆڤار”
- Chechen: “Вуковар”
- Chinese: “武科瓦尔”
- Chinese: “武科瓦爾”
- Croatian: “Vukovar”
- Czech: “Vukovar”
- Danish: “Vukovar”
- Dutch: “Vukovar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوكوفار”
- Esperanto: “Vukovar”
- Estonian: “Vukovar”
- Finnish: “Vukovar”
- French: “Vukovar”
- Galician: “Vukovar”
- Georgian: “ვუკოვარი”
- German: “Vukovar”
- German: “Wukowar” (historical)
- Greek: “Βούκοβαρ”
- Hebrew: “ווקובאר”
- Hebrew: “ווקובר”
- Hindi: “वुकोवार”
- Hungarian: “Vukovár”
- Indonesian: “Vukovar”
- Irish: “Vukovar”
- Italian: “Volco”
- Italian: “Vukovar”
- Japanese: “ヴコヴァル”
- Korean: “부코바르”
- Latin: “Cornacum”
- Latvian: “Vukovara”
- Limburgan: “Vukovar”
- Lithuanian: “Vukovaras”
- Lombard: “Vukovar”
- Macedonian: “Вуковар”
- Malay: “Vukovar”
- Northern Frisian: “Vukovar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vukovar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vukovar”
- Norwegian: “Vukovar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vukovar”
- Ossetian: “Вуковар”
- Persian: “ووکوار”
- Polish: “Vukovar”
- Portuguese: “Vukovar”
- Pushto: “واکو وار”
- Romanian: “Vukovar”
- Russian: “Вуковар”
- Scots: “Vukovar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vukovar”
- Serbian: “Vukovar”
- Serbian: “Вуковар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vukovar”
- Silesian: “Vukovar”
- Sinhala: “වුකෝවර්, ක්රොඒෂියාව”
- Slovak: “Vukovar”
- Slovenian: “Vukovar”
- Southern Sotho: “Vukovar”
- Spanish: “Vukovar”
- Swahili: “Vukovar”
- Swedish: “Vukovar”
- Tatar: “Вуковар”
- Thai: “วูกอวาร์”
- Turkish: “Valkovar”
- Turkish: “Vukovar”
- Ukrainian: “Вуковар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vukovar”
- Urdu: “ووکووار”
- Venetian: “Vukovar”
- Volapük: “Vukovar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vukovar”
- Wu Chinese: “武科瓦尔”
- “Vukovar”
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