Review article
https://doi.org/10.21861/HGG.2016.78.02.02
Geographical Aspects of the Territorial Organisation of Croatia and Comparison with Other European Countries
Zoran Klarić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3238-6668
; Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper compares the administrative-territorial organisation of Croatia with the organisation in other European countries, with an emphasis on geographical aspects – primarily size (territory) and number of inhabitants of administrative units. The introduction provides an analytical review of the recent papers on this topic, and then an analysis of the current territorial division of Croatia and its former division into regions (groups of municipalities) and so-called “large” municipalities. This is followed by an overview of territorial organisation in other European countries, which is compared with Croatia, with focus on the need to emphasise the relationship between territorial organisation and the size of a particular state. The final part of the paper contains proposals for the administrative division of Croatian territory based on the spatial distribution of the population and the main urban centres, using the application of the best practices in Europe.
Keywords
territorial organisation; regionalisation; Europe; Croatia; counties
Hrčak ID:
173020
URI
Publication date:
16.1.2017.
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