Central Croatia
Central Croatia is the region located in the very hart of Croatia.
This region is located between rivers Sava, Drava and Mura. Popular tourist destinations in Central Croatia are cities Zagreb (capital city of Croatia), Varazdin, Samobor, Zapresic, Velika Gorica, Turopolje, Velika Mlaka, Krapina, Cakovec, Bjelovar, Karlovac, Sisak and many others.
It borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the south and Slovenia and Hungary in the north.
Many of those towns have large historical heritage, many beautiful castles (Trakoscan, Veliki tabor, Laduc, Miljana, Marusevec, Opeka…), churches (St. Barbara`s in Velika Mlaka, St. Mary`s of Jeruzalem in Krapina, St. Nicholas` in Varazdin, St. Ana`s in Cakovec, Zagreb`s cathedral…), parks of nature (Lonjsko polje)…
Central Croatia included the Croatian Littoral, the Croatian Dinaric Alps (Kordun, Lika, and Gorski kotar), the Croatian Highlands, and Medjimurje.
It covers around a third of the country’s territory and around a half of the country’s population (2.16 million), with 110 people per square kilometer.
This region consist of 8 counties plus City of Zagreb
- Medjimurje County
- Varazdin County
- Krapina-Zagorje County
- Koprivnica-Krizevci County
- Bjelovar-Bilogora County
- Zagreb County and the city of Zagreb
- Karlovac County
- Sisak-Moslavina County