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Zadar County

Zadar

Zadar is the biggest city, cultural, economic and transit center of and the oldest continuously inhabited city in . Zadar is today one of the most popular Croatian tourist destinations, named "entertainment center of the Adriatic" by The Times and "Croatia's new capital of cool" by The Guardian in 2017.
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  • Type: City with 67,300 residents
  • Description: city and settlement in Zadar County, Croatia
  • Historically known as: “Zara”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St. Donatus and Zadar Cathedral.

Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Catholic church located in Zadar, . Its name refers to Donatus of Zadar, who began construction on this church in the 9th century and ended it on the northeastern part of the Roman forum.

Church
Photo: Palauenc05, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of St. Anastasia is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Zadar, , seat of the Archdiocese of Zadar, and the largest church in all of .

Museum
Photo: AnatolyPm, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gaženica.

Quarter
is a suburb of Zadar, , located about 3 miles southeast from the city center, by the Adriatic Sea. It is connected by the D424 highway.

Zadar

Latitude
44.1169° or 44° 7′ 1″ north
Longitude
15.2353° or 15° 14′ 7″ east
Population
67,300
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
IATA airport code
ZAD
United Nations Location Code
HR ZAD
Open location code
8FPQ468P+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1832917478
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3186952
Wiki­data ID
Q3370
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Zadar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Zara”
  • Amharic: “ዛዳር”
  • Arabic: “زادار”
  • Aragonese: “Chadra”
  • Armenian: “Զադար”
  • Asturian: “Zadar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zadar”
  • Basque: “Zadar”
  • Belarusian: “Дзара”
  • Belarusian: “Задар”
  • Belarusian: “Зара”
  • Bengali: “জাদার”
  • Bosnian: “Zadar”
  • Breton: “Zadar”
  • Bulgarian: “Задар”
  • Catalan: “Zadar”
  • Cebuano: “Zadar (kapital sa lalawigan sa Krowasya)”
  • Cebuano: “Zadar”
  • Central Kurdish: “زادار”
  • Chechen: “Задар”
  • Chinese: “扎拉”
  • Chinese: “扎拉港”
  • Chinese: “扎达尔”
  • Chinese: “扎達爾”
  • Chinese: “札達爾”
  • Church Slavic: “Ꙁадъръ”
  • Croatian: “Zadar”
  • Czech: “Zadar”
  • Dalmatian: “Jadera”
  • Danish: “Zadar”
  • Dutch: “Zadar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زادار”
  • Esperanto: “Zadar”
  • Estonian: “Zadar”
  • Finnish: “Zadar”
  • French: “Zadar”
  • Galician: “Zadar”
  • Georgian: “ზადარი”
  • German: “Zadar”
  • German: “Jadera” (historical)
  • Greek: “Ζαντάρ”
  • Greek: “Ζάνταρ”
  • Gujarati: “ઝદર”
  • Hausa: “Zadar, Croatia”
  • Hebrew: “זאדאר”
  • Hindi: “ज़दर”
  • Hungarian: “Zadar”
  • Hungarian: “Zára” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Zadar”
  • Indonesian: “Zadar”
  • Interlingue: “Zadar”
  • Irish: “Zadar”
  • Italian: “Zara”
  • Japanese: “ザダル”
  • Kannada: “ಝದರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Задар”
  • Komering: “Zadar”
  • Korean: “자다르”
  • Latin: “Iader”
  • Latin: “Iadera”
  • Latvian: “Zadara”
  • Lithuanian: “Zadaras”
  • Lombard: “Zara”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Zadar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zadar”
  • Macedonian: “Задар”
  • Malay: “Zadar”
  • Marathi: “झदर”
  • Mingrelian: “ზადარი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zadar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zadar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zadar”
  • Norwegian: “Zadar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zadar”
  • Ossetian: “Задар”
  • Persian: “زادار”
  • Polish: “Zadar”
  • Portuguese: “Zadar”
  • Romanian: “Zadar”
  • Russian: “Задар”
  • Russian: “Зара”
  • Sardinian: “Zadar”
  • Scots: “Zadar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Zadar”
  • Serbian: “Zadar”
  • Serbian: “Задар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zadar”
  • Sicilian: “Zara”
  • Silesian: “Zadar”
  • Sinhala: “සාඩර්, ක්‍රොඒෂියාව”
  • Sinhala: “සාඩර්”
  • Slovak: “Zadar”
  • Slovenian: “Zadar”
  • Southern Sotho: “Zadar”
  • Spanish: “Zadar”
  • Swahili: “Zadar”
  • Swedish: “Zadar”
  • Tamil: “சடார்”
  • Tatar: “Задар”
  • Telugu: “జాదర్”
  • Thai: “ซาดาร์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Zadar”
  • Turkish: “Cara”
  • Turkish: “Zadar”
  • Turkish: “Zadire”
  • Turkish: “Zadra”
  • Ukrainian: “Задар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zadar”
  • Urdu: “زدار”
  • Uzbek: “Zadar”
  • Venetian: “Zara”
  • Vietnamese: “Zadar”
  • Volapük: “Zadar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zadar”
  • Welsh: “Zadar”
  • Wu Chinese: “扎达尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “扎達爾”
  • “Zadar”

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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 “Zadar”. Photo: Böhringer, CC BY-SA 2.5.