INFO ABOUT LIKA-SENJ COUNTY AND CROATIA

Lika - Senj belongs mainly to mountainous Croatia and partly to Croatian coast, two large geographically different Croatian units.

On a surface of 5,353 km2, according to the 2001 census. live 53,677 residents, what is classified as the least populated county of Croatia. It has central geographical position and importance as the connecting area of the Croatia. Location of the County in Croatia is on touch of edges of large Croatian geographic regional entities. Gospic is also the largest city and county seat.
The importance of Lika-Senj County in Croatian territory and outside it is primarily determined by the function of geotraffic intersection between the three leading cities in the country - Zagreb, Rijeka and Split, but also some others, such as Zadar and Karlovac. Lika County is known for its authentic economic potentials contained in agriculture soils, forests and water resources, and valuable tourist areas, areas of national parks and nature parks karst of river's basin. A special place belongs to the Velebit mountain, longest and most prominent Croatian mountain, which separates the area of the County on two fronts: coastal and continental. Brightest example of a compound of stone and water in karst are undoubtedly the Plitvice Lakes, the oldest Croatian national park and nature monument from the World Heritage List of UNESCO.

Croatia is a European country and is part of the Mediterranean, as it occupies most of the coastline of the Adriatic Sea with the islands. Includes Dinara mountain range, which separates the Mediterranean part from mid-European continental, and part of the Pannonian Basin. The mainland part of the Croatian is 56 594 km2, and the surface of the coastal sea 31,479 km2, and the entire area has 4,290,612 inhabitants. Economic, political and cultural center is the capital city of Zagreb with 792,875 inhabitants. Of 1244 islands and islets, 50 of them are inhabited, and the largest are Cres and Krk. The official currency is the kuna.