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5-806: In the 2011 census, there were a total of 4,753 inhabitants, in the following settlements : In the 2011 census, the absolute majority were Croats . This Brod-Posavina County geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Naselje Settlements in Croatia , in Croatian naselje ( pl. naselja ) are the third-level spatial division of the country, and usually indicate existing or former human settlement . Each Croatian city or town ( grad , pl. gradovi ) or municipality ( općina , pl. općine ) consists of one or more settlements. A settlement can be part of only one second-level spatial division, whose territory

10-430: Is the sum of exclusive settlement territories. Settlements are not necessarily incorporated places , as second-level local authorities (towns and municipalities), known as jedinice lokalne samouprave , delegate some of their functions to so-called jedinice mjesne samouprave ( gradski kotar , gradska četvrt , or područje mjesnog odbora ). The Croatian Bureau of Statistics publishes their decennial census data on

15-681: Is usually named by the largest or most urban settlement and typically includes several rural settlements. The Constitution of Croatia allows a naselje or a part thereof to form some form of local government . 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 ). Historically,

20-624: The basis of official settlement (naselje) data from the Register of Spatial Units by the State Geodetic Administration. As of 2023 , there are 6 757 settlements in Croatia. Rural individual settlements are usually referred to as selo (village; pl. sela ). Municipalities (or communes) in Croatia comprise one or more either urban or rural settlements. A city usually includes an eponymous large settlement and several urban, suburban or rural settlements. A municipality

25-404: The methodology of delineating settlements in Croatia changed substantially in the first decade after World War II , when the number of settlements was recorded at 12,044 in the 1948 census, but then reduced to 6,704 in the 1953 census. At the time, the definition of a settlement was an inhabited place with a separate name, an independent settlement was a settlement that had a distinct territory, and

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