Crikvenica (pronounced [ˈtsrikvɛnitsa]) is a town in Croatia, located on the Adriatic in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

The names of the town in various languages include:[4] Crikvenica is located southeast of Rijeka and is the largest settlement on the coast of the Vinodol coastal area.

Over the last twenty years, urban expansion of Crikvenica itself and of the nearby town of Selce has resulted in the two merging into a mini-conglomerate.

[citation needed] The name of the town derives from the word for 'church' (Croatian: crkva, in dialect crikva), referring to the monastery church of the Pauline Fathers, which was built by Nikola IV Frankopan nearby in 1412.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Crikvenica was a district capital in the Modruš-Rijeka County of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.