This is a list of islands of Croatia. There are over a thousand islands in

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, the exact number varying by definitions, and they cover a total area of about . The number and classification of islands in Croatia varies over time and by different measurements, causing some domestic controversy when discrepancies are found.

Largest islands

These are the larger ones, sorted approximately from northwest to southeast:

Northern seacoast

* the

Brijuni The Brijuni () or the Brijuni Islands (also known as the Brionian Islands; same as it, Brioni) are a group of fourteen small islands in the Croatian part of the northern Adriatic Sea, separated from the west coast of the Istrian peninsula by t ...

islands, also a

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Krk Krk (; it, Veglia; ruo, Krk; dlm, label= Vegliot Dalmatian, Vikla; la, Curicta; grc-gre, Κύρικον, Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kot ...

, the largest along with Cres *

Plavnik Plavnik is an unpopulated island in the Adriatic Sea, belonging to Croatia located between the Central Straits and the Kvarner Bay. The Krusija Channel cuts it off from the eastern coast of the island of Cres. This channel is the shortest route fr ...

Cres Cres (; dlm, Crepsa, vec, Cherso, it, Cherso, la, Crepsa, Greek: Χέρσος, ''Chersos'') is an Adriatic island in Croatia. It is one of the northern islands in the Kvarner Gulf and can be reached via ferry from Rijeka, the island Kr ...

, the largest along with Krk *

Lošinj Lošinj (; it, Lussino; vec, Lusin, earlier ''Osero''; german: Lötzing; la, Apsorrus; grc, Ἄψορρος) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, in the Kvarner Gulf. It is almost due south of the city of Rijeka and part of the P ...

Ilovik The islands of Ilovik ( it, Asinello) and '' Sveti Petar'' ( it, San Pietro) are located in Croatia south of the island Lošinj (Lussino), separated by the Strait of Ilovik ( hr, Ilovačka vrata). Geography The only village located on the island ...

Unije Unije (; it, Unie) is an island in Croatia. It is part of the Cres- Lošinj archipelago, which is situated at the northern portion of the Adriatic Sea. Unije is the third largest island of the archipelago. It is in size, with numerous bays and ...

* Susak *

Prvić Prvić (pronounced ; it, Provicchio) is a small island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. It is situated in the Šibenik archipelago, about half a mile from the mainland, in the vicinity of Vodice. The whole island is under protection of ...

* Goli Otok *

Sveti Grgur Sveti Grgur (, it, San Gregorio; lit. ''Saint Gregory'') is an uninhabited island in Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea between Rab and Krk. The island was the site of a women's prison in SFR Yugoslavia, in tandem with nearby Goli Otok which served t ...

Rab Rab �âːb( dlm, Arba, la, Arba, it, Arbe, german: Arbey) is an island in the northern Dalmatia region in Croatia, located just off the northern Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea. The island is long, has an area of and 9,328 inhabitants (2 ...

* Pag *

Olib Olib (; ) is a Croatian island in northern Dalmatia, located northwest of Zadar, southwest of Pag, southeast of Lošinj and just east of Silba with an area of 26.14 km2. History Greek geographer Strabo mentions a settlement named Aloip, ...

Silba Silba (; it, Selve) is an island in Croatia with an area of 15 km2, northern Dalmatia, south-east of Lošinj, between the islands of Premuda and Olib. It has a Mediterranean climate with 2570 hours a year of sunshine. Most summer days ...

Premuda Premuda () is a small island in Croatia, off the northern Adriatic coast. It belongs to the north Dalmatian islands which are situated north-west from the county center Zadar. Premuda is approximately long, up to wide, and has an area of . It ...

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Molat Molat (pronounced ; it, Melada) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. It is situated near Zadar, southeast from Ist, separated by Zapuntel strait. It has area of . The settlements on the island are Molat (population 107), Zapuntel (pop. 42) ...

Northern Dalmatia

Vir Vir (; it, Puntadura, Dalmatian: ''Punta de Ura'') is an island on the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea with an area of 22 km2. It lies in Dalmatia, north of the city of Zadar. It is connected to the mainland via a road bridge. The mai ...

Dugi Otok Dugi Otok (; Croatian for "Long Island", it, Isola Lunga) is the seventh largest island in the Adriatic Sea, part of Croatia. It is located off the Dalmatian coast, west of Zadar. It is the largest and westernmost of the Zadarian Islands, and d ...

Ugljan Ugljan () is a Croatian island and the first in the Zadar Archipelago. It is located northwest of the island of Pašman and southeast of the islands of Rivanj and Sestrunj. Separated from the mainland by the Zadar Channel, it is connected with ...

Iž Iž (pronounced �ːʒ Italian: ''Eso'', German: ''Ese'') is an island in the Zadar Archipelago within the Croatian reaches of the Adriatic Sea. Geography Geology and topology The island is situated between Ugljan on the north-east and ...

Pašman Pašman () is an Adriatic island off the coast of northern Dalmatia in Croatia with an area of 60.11 km2, located to the south of Zadar, surrounded by the islands of Ugljan to the northwest, Iž to the west, and Dugi Otok and Žut to the ...

* the

Kornati The Kornati archipelago (; it, Isole Incoronate) of Croatia, also known as the Stomorski islands, is located in the northern part of Dalmatia, south from Zadar and west from Šibenik, in the Šibenik-Knin County. With length and 89 islands, som ...

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, also a

* Krapanj *

Murter Murter (; it, Mortero; la, Colentum) is an island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. Population The main settlements on the island are Murter, located on the north-western part of the island, and the southern part of Tisno. Other sett ...

Sestrunj Sestrunj ( it, Sestrugno) is an island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. It is situated in Zadar Archipelago, between Ugljan, Rivanj and Dugi Otok. Its area is , and it has population of 48 (). The only settlement is also called Sestrunj ...

Škarda Škarda is an uninhabited Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea located between Premuda and Ist (island) Ist ( it, Isto) is a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. The closest city to Ist is Zadar. The island has an area of 9.65&nbs ...

Zlarin Zlarin is a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia near the mainland city of Šibenik. Administratively, it is part of Šibenik-Knin County. In the winter time, the island has a population of 284, but from March to October its population ...

Central and southern Dalmatia

Čiovo Čiovo (pronounced ; it, Bua) is an island located off the Adriatic coast in Croatia with an area of (length , width up to ), population of 5,908 inhabitants (2011) and its highest peak is 218 m (Rudine). The centre of the island has geograph ...

Drvenik Drvenik may mean: * Drvenik, Split-Dalmatia County, village near Makarska, Croatia * Drvenik, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, village in Konavle, Croatia * Drvenik Veli, island in central Dalmatia, Croatia * Drvenik Veliki, settlement on Drvenik Veli * ...

Šolta Šolta (; it, Solta; la, Solentium) is an island in Croatia. It is situated in the Adriatic Sea in the central Dalmatian archipelago, west of the island of Brač, south of Split (separated by Split Channel) and east of the Drvenik islands, Drve ...

Brač Brač is an island in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia, with an area of , making it the largest island in Dalmatia, and the third largest in the Adriatic. It is separated from the mainland by the Brač Channel, which is wide. The island's talle ...

Hvar Hvar (; Chakavian: ''Hvor'' or ''For'', el, Φάρος, Pharos, la, Pharia, it, Lesina) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, located off the Dalmatian coast, lying between the islands of Brač, Vis and Korčula. Approximately long, wi ...

* Vis * Biševo * Brusnik *

Jabuka Jabuka, meaning ''apple'' in Serbo-Croatian, may refer to: Places * Jabuka (island), a Croatian island * Jabuka, Croatia, a village near Trilj * Jabuka (mountain), a mountain and plateau on the border between Serbia and Montenegro * Jabuka, Pan ...

, closest to

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Svetac Sveti Andrija (, meaning " Saint Andrew"), often called Svetac (, meaning " saint"), is an island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. It is situated from Komiža (a town on the island of Vis). It is uninhabited, although it used to have per ...

Korčula Korčula (, it, Curzola) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. It has an area of , is long and on average wide, and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. Its 15,522 inhabitants (2011) make it the second most populous Adriatic island after K ...

, the most populated one *

Lastovo Lastovo (; it, Lagosta, german: Augusta, la, Augusta Insula, el, Ladestanos, Illyrian: ''Ladest'') is an island municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-governm ...

Mljet Mljet (; la, Melita, it, Meleda) is the southernmost and easternmost of the larger Adriatic islands of the Dalmatia region of Croatia. The National Park includes the western part of the island, Veliko jezero, Malo jezero, Soline Bay and a sea be ...

, includes a national park * the

Elaphiti Islands The Elaphiti Islands or the Elaphites ( hr, Elafitski otoci or ''Elafiti'') is a small archipelago consisting of several islands stretching northwest of Dubrovnik, in the Adriatic Sea.Koločep The island of Koločep (; locally known as Kalamota from it, Calamotta) is one of the three inhabited Elaphiti Islands situated near the city of Dubrovnik with an area of . Koločep is the southernmost inhabited island in Croatia. In the 2011 cen ...

Lopud Lopud () is a small island off the coast of Dalmatia, southern Croatia. Lopud is economically the most developed of the Elaphiti Islands, and can be reached by boat from Dubrovnik, Trsteno, Orašac and Zaton. The island is famous for its sandy ...

Šipan Šipan () also Sipano ( it, Giuppana) is the largest of the Elaphiti Islands, northwest of Dubrovnik, Croatia; separated from the mainland coast by the Koločepski Channel; area ; The island is in length, and up to in width. It is the larges ...

Lokrum Lokrum (, it, Lacroma) is an island in the Adriatic Sea from the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It stretches from northwest to southeast and receives regular ferry service from the Old City port. Austrian archduke (and short-lived Emperor of M ...

Palagruža Palagruža (; it, Pelagosa) is a small Croatian archipelago in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. It is uninhabited, except by lighthouse staff and occasional summer tourists. Geography It consists of one larger island, called ''Vela'' or ''Vel ...

, southernmost one * Žirje *

Žut Žut () is an uninhabited island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea, in central Dalmatia. With an area of it is the 28th largest island in Croatia and the second largest island in the Kornati archipelago, after Kornat. Although most of the ...

Hydrographic Institute definitions

The

Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia The Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia is a government agency responsible for providing Hydrography, hydrographic and marine geospatial data for the Republic of Croatia. The institute is located in Split, Croatia, Split, and cover ...

classifies all landforms surrounded by water in the Adriatic Sea as islands ( hr, otoci), islets (''otočići'') and rocks (''hridi''). The categorization is determined according to their surface area. Rocks are defined as islets smaller than , islets are between and islands proper are bigger than . According to measurements obtained in early 2000s the largest islands in the Adriatic Sea are Cres with an area of , and Krk with an area of (In earlier literature, including atlases, Krk was usually cited as the largest island). The smallest island is Smokvica Vela (Kornati) with an area of . The island with the longest coastline of is Pag, being the fifth according to area value and the island with the shortest coastline length of is Vele Orjule. The biggest islet is Badija with an area of , while the smallest one is Galicija covering .

List of islands

The following table lists the 79 Croatian islands having an area of or more, sorted by their surface area from largest to smallest. The area data is rounded off to the second decimal.

Selected islets

The following is an incomplete list of islets. * Badija *

* Farfarikulac, island in the

Telašćica Nature Park Telašćica () is a bay in the southeastern part of the island of Dugi Otok, Croatia, in the Adriatic Sea. It is a designated nature park, full of wildlife and sea creatures. Geography Telašćica is a 10 km long, 160–1800 m wide, deep i ...

Galešnjak Galešnjak (also called ''Island of Love'', ''Lover's Island'', ''Otok za zaljubljene, Love Island'') is located in the Pašman Canal of the Adriatic, between the islands of Pašman and the town of Turanj on mainland Croatia. It is one of the w ...

Galijula Galijula is an uninhabited isle in the southwestern Adriatic Sea, 3 nautical miles from the island of Palagruža. It belongs to the municipality of Komiža in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. It is the List of extreme points of Croatia, southernmos ...

, southernmost Croatian island. *

* Jaz * Knežak *

Košljun Košljun may refer to: * Košljun (island), located near Krk, Croatia * Košljun, Pag, a village on the island of Pag, Croatia {{geodis ...

* Kozjak * Krapanj *

* Lunga (

Kornat Kornat (pronounced ) is an island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea, in central Dalmatia. With an area of 32.44 km2 it is the 16th largest island in Croatia and the largest island in the eponymous Kornati islands archipelago. It is pa ...

) *

Lupac Lupac (Romanian: ''Lupac''; Croatian: ''Lupak''; hu, Kiskrassó) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, Banat, Romania. In 2002, its population numbered 3,023 people and was mostly made up of Krashovani Croats. It is composed of four villages: C ...

* Male Srakane *

Olipa Olipa is an uninhabited islet in Croatia, part of the Elaphiti Islands archipelago off the coast of southern Dalmatia. It is the westernmost isle in the Elaphites. Olipa is mostly rocky and partially covered in forest. A stone square tower is locat ...

* Ošljak *

Pokonji Dol Pokonji Dol is an islet in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea, which is situated 500 meters south from Hvar. Pokonji Dol is one of the Paklinski islands. The lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structu ...

, easternmost island of the Pakleni otoci archipelago *

Radelj Radelj may refer to: * Prelaz Radelj or Radl Pass, a mountain pass in the Alps * Jure Radelj (born 1977), Slovenian ski jumper * Radelj (Croatia), an island of Croatia See also * Radel (disambiguation) {{disambig ...

* Ruda *

Sveti Andrija (Dubrovnik) Sveti Andrija ( Croatian for "Saint Andrew") is an island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. It is part of the Elaphiti Islands archipelago, Dalmatia and is situated from Dubrovnik, from Koločep, from Lopud and from Šipan. The island ...

, uninhabited island near Dubrovnik *

Sveti Andrija (Rovinj) Crveni Otok (Red Island) is a twinned island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. It is situated near Rovinj and connects the island of Sveti Andrija ( Croatian for "Saint Andrew", Italian: ''Isola di Sant'Andrea'') with neighbouring islet ...

, also known as Crveni otok (English: Red Island), off the coast of Rovinj

Bureau of Statistics definitions

The

Croatian Bureau of Statistics The Croatian Bureau of Statistics ( hr, Državni zavod za statistiku or DZS) is the Croatian national statistics bureau. History The bureau was formed in 1875 in Austria-Hungary as the ''Zemaljski statistički ured'' for the Kingdom of Croati ...

uses data from the Geographical Department of the Faculty of Science of the

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, which classifies a total of 1,185 islands, rocks and reefs: 48 inhabited islands, 670 uninhabited islands ( hr, otoci), 389 rocks (') and 78 reefs ('). The rocks and reefs are defined as the "rocky remains of an islet or a rocky formation destroyed by abrasion", differentiated by whether they are "always above sea level" or "at, under or above sea level (at low tide)", respectively.

Other definitions

Mark Biondich's ''Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture'' puts the number of Croatian islands at 1,246. Of these, there are 718 islands in the conventional sense, 389 cliffs, and 78 reefs.Biondich, Mark (2005). ''Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture'', page 414. ABC-CLIO; .

References

External links

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