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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 / ˈ z ɑː ɡ r ɛ b / is the capital city of Croatia. A city of approaching a million inhabitants, it lies on the River Sava in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin . The city serves as a connection for traffic between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea , as well as possessing an international airport.
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 ).
Zagreb is the largest city in Croatia and the only one whose metropolitan area exceeds one million people. The official population of the city of Zagreb is 790,017 according to the 2011 census. According to the same census, there are 1,088,841 people in the Zagreb metropolitan area including the towns of Samobor, Velika Gorica and Zaprešić.
The term "Old Zagreb" was popularized by Gjuro Szabo, an admirer of Zagreb antiquities who advocated their conservation.Old Zagreb consisted of two settlements on neighboring hills - Gradec (also known as Gornji Grad) and Kaptol - and the houses in the valley between them along the former Medveščak creek (present-day Tkalčićeva Street).
The Zagreb metropolitan area is the metropolitan area of Zagreb. The metropolitan area covers three counties in the Croatia, with an area of 4,930 km 2 . The largest cities or towns within the metropolitan area are Zagreb, Velika Gorica , Samobor and Zaprešić .
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