Population
The municipality has 47,539 inhabitants. Of these, 23,385 (49.19%) are male and 24,154 (50.81%) are female.
Italian was once the main language in the town, spoken by 92% of the population in 1900, but this number decreased sharply after Slovenian Istria was incorporated into Yugoslavia in 1954 and many ethnic Italians left the town. Today, Italian is mainly used as a second language by the Slovene-speaking majority.
- Population by native language, census 2002
- Slovene 35,246 (74.14%)
- Croatian 3,824 (8.04%)
- Serbo-Croatian 1,911 (4.02%)
- Bosnian 1,311 (2.76%)
- Serbian 1,268 (2.67%)
- Italian 1,059 (2.23%)
- Albanian 240 (0.50%)
- Macedonian 227 (0.48%)
- Others and Unknown 2,453 (5.16%)
- Total 47,539
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