Dubrovnik geographical position

Dubrovnik and its area cover the territory of the southern part of the Republic of Croatia and its province of Dalmatia. Its borders run from Neum in the west to Sutorina and Ponta Ostra in the east. This area lies between Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north and the Montenegro in the east.

 

This spread-out, comparatively narrow piece of coastline, lying below the rocky mountain range of the Dinara and some smaller mountains, becomes wider in its eastern part and develops into the small rocky Konavosko Polje, including here the mountain Snijeznica, with its mountainous part, where the coast seems as if to enter the land.

 

The border-line of this area goes along the mountain tops on the side of Herzegovina and partly on the side of Montenegro. In some places the area along the coast is not more than a hundred meters wide - like in Duboka Ljuta.

 

The geographical position of Dubrovnik and the area of the southern part of the eastern Adriatic coast is extremely favourable, being situated at the end of the Adriatic archipelago and at the foot of the comparatively small mountains that can be explored on toot. These mountains have offered a favourable territory for the caravaning trade travelling on the whole of the Balkan territory.

 

At the same time the mountain range represents a natural shield defending the area from the cold currents of the continental climate; this is one of the geographical factors that have this exceptionally mild, the real Mediterranean climate of the Dubrovnik area as its consequence.

 

According to the Greenwich measurements Dubrovnik is situated at 42028 of the northern latitude, like Rome and Barcelona, and at 1807 eastern longitude, like Stockholm. These are the advantages of the geographical position that cause the subtropical climate and the rich vegetation.