002 A MAP OF CROATIA

About Croatia: Republika Hrvatska #002

Map of Croatia

Sometimes it is useful to be able to refer to a map of a country of interest - just to see where it is in relation to bordering countries, and to identify the relative positions of regions, towns, rivers, mountain ranges, and so on.

This post is motivated by the fact that I realised that I was unable to name correctly all of the countries bordering Croatia.

There are all sorts of maps, each with different information.

Let's start off with a map that shows the shape of Croatia, the countries that surround it, and 50 or 60 of its cities and largest towns.

Testing, testing .....

• Can you find the capital city, Zagreb?
• Can you find Trogir, near Split?
• Can you find the most important island in the world, Hvar?
• Can you find Vodice, where my grandparents were born.
• Can you find the region called Slavonia (Slavonija, in Croatian)?
• Can you find the region called Istria (Istra, in Croatian)?
• Can you find the Velebit mountain range?
• Can you find Dubrovnik?
• Which countries border Croatia. [I think that there are five.]
  
• Can you find Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, famous for its bridge, replacing an ancient bridge destroyed during the war for independence? Is it a long way from Makarska?
• Which country do you come to if you go by ship directly east from Split? Near which city? [Not shown on this map.]
• The source of Kupa River (izvor rijeke Kupe) is near Rijeka, just a short distance from the Adriatic Sea. Why does if flow eastward, away from the Adriatic Sea?
  

Map courtesy of the Centre for Resarch on Globalization, taken from 
www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-pan-slavic-identity-and-unity-the-idea-of-a-greater-croatia-by-17th-century-publicist-pavao-ritter-vitezovic/5653021


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