Settlement (Croatia)
The territory of Croatia is divided by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics into small settlements, in Croatian naselje. They indicate existing or former human settlement and are not necessarily incorporated places. Rather, the administrative units are cities and municipalities, which are composed of one or more settlements., there are 6,749 settlements in Croatia.
Rural individual settlements are by and large referred to as selo. Municipalities 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. This form of local government is typically used to subdivide larger municipalities and cities; municipality may comprise several units named mjesni odbor, a city usually consists of several units named gradski kotar/gradska četvrt, and/or mjesni odbor.
