Osor, Croatia

Osor

Ossero
Osor Ossero
Village
	View of Osor
	Osor
	Coordinates: 44°41′38″N 14°23′35″E / 44.69390°N 14.39296°E
Country	Croatia
County	Primorje-Gorski Kotar
Town	Mali Lošinj
Area
• Total	24.7 km2 (9.5 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	26
• Density	1.1/km2 (2.7/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	51554
Area code	051
Vehicle registration	RI

Osor channel between the islands Lošinj and Cres, Croatia

Osor (Italian: Ossero) is a village and a small port on the Croatian island of Cres, in Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. Administratively, it is part of the town of Mali Lošinj. As of 2021, it had a population of 26.^[2]

Osor lies at a narrow channel that separates the islands of Cres and Lošinj. The channel was built in Roman times to make sailing possible. Now the islands are connected with a rotating bridge. Originally, Cres and Lošinj were one island, Osor, before the channel was cut.

^ Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
^ ^a ^b "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.

[1] Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.

[Census_2021-2] "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.

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