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The majority of the Adriatic Sea islands are located in the northeastern Adriatic, near the Croatian coast. There are more than 1,200 islands in the Adriatic Sea , 69 of which are inhabited. A study in 2000 by the Institute of Oceanography in Split shows that there are 1,246 islands: 79 large islands, 525 islets, and 642 ridges and rocks.
Port cities and towns in Slovenia (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Port cities and towns of the Adriatic Sea" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Cities are ordered by their position on the Mediterranean, from west to east. They can be reordered by name (alphabetically), country, subdivision of the Mediterranean, population size, or main language spoken in the city.
In December 1992 there were 70 cities and towns and 419 municipalities in Croatia organized into 20 counties (plus the city of Zagreb which is both a city and a county). [5] In 2001 there were 122 cities and towns (excluding Zagreb) and 423 municipalities. This was the territorial division used for the 2001 census. [5]
This is a list of islands of Croatia. There are over a thousand islands in Croatia , the exact number varying by definitions, and they cover a total area of about 3,300 km 2 (1,300 sq mi). [ 1 ] The number and classification of islands in Croatia varies over time and by different measurements, causing some domestic controversy when ...
Map of the Croatian islands in the Adriatic Sea. In the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea, there are 718 islands, 389 islets and 78 reefs, [1] making the Croatian archipelago the largest in the Adriatic Sea and the second largest in the Mediterranean Sea, after the Greek archipelago. [2]
Croatia's Adriatic Sea mainland coast is 1,777.3 kilometres (1,104.4 mi) long, while its 1,246 islands and islets have a further 4,058 kilometres (2,522 mi) of coastline. The distance between the extreme points of Croatia's coastline is 526 kilometres (327 mi). [ 35 ]
The Adriatic Sea is a semi-enclosed sea, [8] bordered in the southwest by the Apennine or Italian Peninsula, in the northwest by the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and in the northeast by Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania—the Balkan peninsula.