Central Croatia - Geography

Geography

Central Croatia is a geographic region of Croatia that encompasses territory around Zagreb, located between Slavonia in the east and the Mountainous Croatia in the west. Its borders are not determined unambiguously, and the extent of the region is defined differently by various sources. Ogulin-Plaški Valley and the municipality of Bosiljevo in the western part of the Karlovac County are considered to be a part of the Mountainous Croatia, while the border with Slavonia to the east was variously defined throughout history, depending on the political divisions of Croatia. Since the re-establishment of the counties of Croatia, Central Croatia is considered to encompass the area of the national capital, Zagreb, and eight counties—Bjelovar-Bilogora, Karlovac, Koprivnica-Križevci, Krapina-Zagorje, Međimurje, Sisak-Moslavina, Varaždin, and Zagreb County. Central Croatia, excluding Bjelovar-Bilogora, Karlovac, and Sisak-Moslavina counties, is part of the Northwest Croatia NUTS-2 statistical unit of Croatia, while the three remaining counties are part of Central and Eastern (Pannonian) Croatia, along with all of Slavonia. The eight counties and the capital city cover 19,403 square kilometres (7,492 square miles) of land, corresponding to 34.3 percent of the territory of Croatia, and have a population of 2,071,092 yielding a population density of 106.7408/km2 (276.457/sq mi). Central Croatia comprises several microregions: Međimurje, Podravina, Posavina, Kordun, Banovina, Prigorje, Turopolje, Moslavina, and Žumberak.