Ivanec

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Ivanec

Total population

4,997

Elevation227 m

Land area8.5 km²

Coordinates46.22°, 16.12°

Demographic figures from Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Ivanec is a town in northern Croatia, located southwest of Varaždin, east of Lepoglava and north of the mountain Ivanščica.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Adam Patachich

Croatian priest (1717–1784)

Albert Dovecar

French member of OAS (1937–1962)

Franjo Gregurić

Croatian politician

Josip Kraš

Yugoslav partisan (1900-1941)

Pavle Gregorić

politician (1892-1989)

Milan Šufflay

Croatian historian, albanologist, and politician (1879-1931)

E

Emil Tauffer

Hungarian prison director (1845-1891)

Đuro Arnold

Croatian philosopher (1853–1941)

N

Neven Vukman

Croatian footballer

D

Danijel Hrman

Croatian footballer

Mirko Malez

Croatian paleontologist and geologist

S

Slavko Stolnik

Croatian painter (1929-1991)

R

Rudolf Filipović

Croatian scholar of English, academic and university teacher

Mladen Bodalec

Croatian musician

T

Tomislav Janko Šagi-Bunić

Croatian theologian

A

Andrej Bahun

politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Varaždin

• Lančić
  1.1 mi away · pop. 299
• Knapić
  1.2 mi away · pop. 62
• Vitešinec
  1.2 mi away · pop. 96
• Vuglovec
  1.4 mi away · pop. 333
• Ivanečki Vrhovec
  1.7 mi away · pop. 307
• Prigorec
  1.8 mi away · pop. 531
• Dubravec
  2.6 mi away · pop. 428
• Stažnjevec
  2.9 mi away · pop. 340
• Lipovnik
  3.3 mi away · pop. 373
• Kamenički Vrhovec
  3.9 mi away · pop. 205
• Vulišinec
  4.3 mi away · pop. 237
• Žarovnica
  4.5 mi away · pop. 839

Browse all places in Varaždin →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Ivanec

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

tansy

Tanacetum vulgare

Seen 2026-09-20

Italian Aster

Aster amellus

Seen 2026-09-20

Green Lizard

Lacerta viridis

Seen 2026-09-20

Japanese-lantern

Alkekengi officinarum

Seen 2026-09-20

Great capricorn beetle

Cerambyx cerdo

Seen 2026-09-19

Western Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Seen 2026-09-19

Convolvulus Hawkmoth

Agrius convolvuli

Seen 2026-09-19

Hart's-tongue fern

Asplenium scolopendrium

Seen 2026-09-12

wall-rue

Asplenium ruta-muraria

Seen 2026-09-12

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Events

Notable, recurring, and historical events associated with Ivanec, sourced from Wikidata.

• Faller's Enigmatic Memorial

  recurring event

  Croatian biennal enigmatic competition (since 1984)

Source: Wikidata (CC0).