Važminec or Važminež (

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: ) is a

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located on the

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

n island of

Cres Cres is an Adriatic island in Croatia. It is one of the northern islands in the Kvarner Gulf and can be reached via ferry from Rijeka, Krk island or from the Istrian peninsula (line Brestova-Porozina). With an area of , Cres has the same si ...

, in

Primorje-Gorski Kotar Primorje – Gorski Kotar County (, ) is a county in western Croatia, most of it based in the historical and cultural region called Croatia proper and some of it in Istria, including the Bay of Kvarner, the surrounding Northern Croatian Littora ...

. Administratively, it is part of the town of

. In 2021, it had 0 inhabitants. The village once had a population of 85, in 1880, but the latest year in which the census recorded a population in Važminec is 1991, with 8 inhabitants.

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