Settlement (Croatia)
The territory of Croatia is divided by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics into small settlements, in Croatian naselje (singular, pl. naselja).[1] They indicate existing or former human settlement (similar to the United States census designated places or the UK census output areas - OA) and are not necessarily incorporated places. Rather, the administrative units (local authorities) are cities (grad, pl. gradovi) and municipalities (općina, pl. općine), which are composed of one or more settlements. As of 2008[update], there are 6,749 settlements in Croatia.[2]
Rural individual settlements are by and large referred to as selo (village; pl. sela). Municipalities (or communes) in Croatia comprise one or more, usually, rural settlements. A city usually includes an eponymous large settlement which in turn consists of several urban and suburban settlements. The Constitution of Croatia allows a naselje or a part thereof to form some form of local government.[3] This form of local government is typically used to subdivide larger municipalities and cities; municipality may comprise several units named mjesni odbor (local committee/board), a city usually consists of several units (which may comprise one or more settlements) named gradski kotar/gradska četvrt (city district or borough; pl. gradski kotari/gradske četvrti), and/or mjesni odbor (local committee/board; pl. mjesni odbori).
See also
- Census-designated place
- Cadastral municipality (katastarska općina)
References
- ^ "Notes on Methodology". Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2015-06-13.
- ^ "2008 Statistical Information" (PDF). Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
- ^ "Mjesna, lokalna i područna (regionalna) samouprava". Ustav Republike Hrvatske (in Croatian). Croatian Parliament. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2012-01-30.