Primorsko-goranska County comprises 14 towns and 21 municipality with 536 settlements within towns and municipalities.

A town is a unit of local government with the seat of the County’s bodies and it represents a natural, urban, economic and social unit. Extraordinarily, a town can comprise suburban settlements, which are naturally connected with the town centre. A town is each settlement with more than 10 000 inhabitants but, due to specific needs and reasons, even a smaller settlement can be declared by law a town. A town has a Council and a Government headed respectively by the President of the Council and the Mayor.

A municipality is a unit of local government founded to comprise more settlements which form a natural, economic and social unit connected by mutual interests of its residents. The municipality has a Council and a Government headed by the President of the Council and the Mayor. (List of municipalities, Council Presidents and Mayors).


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