Matulji

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Matulji

Total population

3,731

Elevation180 m

Land area3 km²

Coordinates45.36°, 14.32°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Matulji is a municipality in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, northwestern Croatia. It is located 10 kilometers (6 mi) west of the city of Rijeka, north of the town of Opatija, and it borders Slovenia. Matulji is first mentioned in written historical sources in the middle of the 17th century, and it is preceded by the surname Matulja, which was originally recorded as Matuglia. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, official documents recorded the name of the settlement in its current form – Matulji.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Tivadar Lehoczky

Hungarian archaeologist, historian and ethnographer (1830–1915)

Ödön von Horváth

Austro-Hungarian writer (1901–1938)

Alexander, Count of Hoyos

Austro-Hungarian diplomat

Ivan Bebek

Croatian football referee

Mihovil Logar

Slovenian composer

V

Vera Begić

Croatian discus thrower

János Kádár

former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

J

Jasmin Perković

Croatian basketball player (born 1980)

Z

Zlatko Perica

Croatian guitarist

Z

Zlatko Sudac

Croattian Roman Catholic priest (born 1971)

Snježana Pejčić

Croatian sport shooter

Ana Jelušić

Croatian alpine skier

Martina Majerle

Croatian singer

M

Mladen Urem

Croatian writer and literary critic

Marijo Šivolija

Croatian boxer

Sanja Popović

Female volleyball player from Croatia

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

Nearby places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar

• Opatija
  2.2 mi away · pop. 5,701
• Viškovo
  3.1 mi away · pop. 3,602
• Lovran
  5.5 mi away · pop. 3,336
• Studena
  5.5 mi away · pop. 382
• Homer
  19.6 mi away · pop. 272
• Vrh
  23.9 mi away · pop. 846
• Skrad
  28.6 mi away · pop. 694
• Hlevci
  29.4 mi away · pop. 17
• Tići
  34.1 mi away · pop. 48
• Lopar
  41.9 mi away · pop. 1,263
• Zarnevo
  650.3 mi away · pop. 1,300
• Azinhal
  1255.4 mi away · pop. 271

Browse all places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar →

Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Western Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Seen 2026-09-26

Dunlin

Calidris alpina

Seen 2026-09-25

white dittany

Dictamnus albus

Seen 2026-09-24

Smokebush

Cotinus coggygria

Seen 2026-09-24

Silver wattle

Acacia dealbata

Seen 2026-09-21

American pokeweed

Phytolacca americana

Seen 2026-09-21

Mediterranean Katydid

Phaneroptera nana

Seen 2026-09-21

Saddled Seabream

Oblada melanurus

Seen 2026-09-20

Domestic Cat

Felis catus

Seen 2026-09-20

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