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Zagreb (/ ˈ z ɑː ɡ r ɛ b / ZAH-greb [7] Croatian: ⓘ [a]) [9] is the capital and largest city of Croatia. [10] It is in the north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain.
Zagreb County (Croatian: Zagrebačka županija) is a county in Northern Croatia. It surrounds, but does not contain, the nation's capital Zagreb , which is a separate territorial unit. For that reason, the county is often nicknamed "Zagreb ring" ( Croatian : zagrebački prsten ).
In December 1992 there were 70 cities and towns and 419 municipalities in Croatia organized into 20 counties (plus the city of Zagreb which is both a city and a county). [5] In 2001 there were 122 cities and towns (excluding Zagreb) and 423 municipalities. This was the territorial division used for the 2001 census. [5]
Croatia, [d] officially the Republic of Croatia [e] is a country in 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 Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west.
The central part of the Republic of Croatia that also holds the capital Zagreb. Dalmatia: Dalmatia consists of much of the coastline of the Republic of Croatia, and stretches from the island of Rab in the north of the country to the Bay of Kotor in the south. Dubrovnik, one of Croatia's most important tourist cities, is in Dalmatia.
Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, with twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans 56,594 square kilometres (21,851 square miles), and has a population of nearly 3.9 million.
The city Zagreb is the capital of the country and has special status equal to the counties. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is HR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Croatia. The second part is two digits: 01–20: counties; 21: city
During the 1920s Zagreb's population increased by 70 percent, the city's largest demographic boom. In 1926 Zagreb introduced the region's first radio station, and in 1947 the Zagreb Fair was the first in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. The area between the railway and the Sava saw considerable new construction after World War II.