Zadarska Županija

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Zadar County (Croatian: Zadarska Serbo-croatian: [zâdarskaː ʒupǎnija]) is a county in Croatia, it encompasses northern Dalmatia and southeastern Lika. Its seat is the city of Zadar.

Geography

Among the largest towns in the county of Zadar are: Zadar, Benkovac, Bibinje, Biograd, Nin, Obrovac and Pag.

The county of Zadar includes the islands of Dugi otok, Ugljan, Pašman, Molat, Lavdara, Zverinac, Vir and most of Pag, as well as a number of other, smaller islands. It also features the Paklenica national park.

The county's area is 7,854 km², 3,646 km² is land, which accounts for 6.4% of the territory of Croatia. The sea area of the county is 3,632 km² (around 12% of the territorial waters) and the insular area is 580 km², with more than 300 smaller and larger islands (Zadar Archipelago). The length of its coastline (including the islands) is 1,300 km.

Administrative division

Zadar County is divided into:

City
- Zadar
Towns
- Benkovac
- Biograd na Moru
- Nin
- Obrovac
- Pag
Municipalities
- Bibinje
- Galovac
- Gračac
- Jasenice
- Kali
- Kolan
- Kukljica
- Lišane Ostrovičke
- Novigrad
- Pakoštane
- Pašman
- Polača
- Poličnik
- Posedarje
- Povljana
- Preko
- Privlaka
- Ražanac
- Sali
- Stankovci
- Starigrad
- Sukošan
- Sveti Filip i Jakov
- Škabrnja
- Tkon
- Vir
- Vrsi
- Zemunik Donji

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Zadar County has population of 170,017, accounting for 4.0% of the total Croatia's population. Croats make up the majority with 92.57% of the population, while Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians and Italians form the remainder.

Infrastructure

The County of Zadar plays a leading role in road and railway traffic links between northern and southern Croatia.

The Adriatic Highway, the main road along the Adriatic Sea passes through the county, as does the A1 motorway, completed as far as Split in 2005. The Zagreb-Knin-Split railway line with branch-lines to Zadar and Šibenik pass through the county.

Maritime traffic is carried by the coastal route of the Adriatic Sea, by the Zadar-Ancona international car ferry route which is the shortest link between Central Europe and Italy, via Zagreb and Zadar to Rome and southward. Another route by which intensive traffic is carried is Zadar - Maslenica Bridge - St. Rok Tunnel - Zagreb.

The Zadar Airport has recently been reconstructed and modernised. With runway improvements still to be undertaken it will eventually have the capacity to handle jumbo-jets.

There is also a very frequent maritime passenger port in the town of Zadar and the cargo maritime port in the Gaženica area whose current manipulative capacity amounts to one million tonnes per year. A construction of a wharf would raise this significantly. The port's manipulative and warehouse capacities are used only in part.