Rakitje

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Rakitje is a village in central Croatia located west of Zagreb. County road Ž3064 connects it to the D1 highway.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Milan Badelj

Croatian association football player

Josip Debeljak

politician (1902-1931)

Janko Mišić

Yugoslav communist

R

Renato Jurčec

Croatian footballer

B

Branko Tretinjak

Yugoslav fencer

K

Krešo Tretinjak

fencer

Levin Rauch

Ban of Croatia (1819-1890)

V

Vjekoslav Noršić

M

Milan Katić

screenwriter

B

Branimir Livadić

Croatian writer (1871–1949)

J

Josip Kušević

politician

J

Joža Gregorin

actor (1913-1984)

Mihalj Šilobod

Croatian mathematician

Mira Vlahović

Croatian soprano

N

Nikola Reiser

Croatian painter (1918–2010)

G

Gabrijela Gaiser

Croatian association football player

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

Nearby places in Zagreb County

• Novaki
  0.9 mi away · pop. 2,091
• Brezje
  1.4 mi away · pop. 1,506
• Jagnjić Dol
  2.1 mi away · pop. 486
• Žitarka
  2.2 mi away · pop. 239
• Srebrnjak
  2.5 mi away · pop. 128
• Mala Gorica
  2.6 mi away · pop. 623
• Gornji Stupnik
  2.7 mi away · pop. 2,003
• Svetonedeljski Breg
  2.8 mi away · pop. 177
• Vrbovec Samoborski
  3.5 mi away · pop. 271
• Molvice
  3.5 mi away · pop. 642
• Hrastina Samoborska
  4 mi away · pop. 837
• Donji Stupnik
  4.1 mi away · pop. 1,375

Browse all places in Zagreb County →

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

House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

Seen 2026-09-26

Mediterranean Katydid

Phaneroptera nana

Seen 2026-09-25

Hooded Crow

Corvus cornix

Seen 2026-09-25

Lesser Stag Beetle

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Seen 2026-09-25

common greenshield lichen

Flavoparmelia caperata

Seen 2026-09-25

Green Bristle Grass

Setaria viridis

Seen 2026-09-25

Creeping Woodsorrel

Oxalis corniculata

Seen 2026-09-25

Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Seen 2026-09-25

Eurasian Kestrel

Falco tinnunculus

Seen 2026-09-25

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