Slunj
Town in Karlovac County, Croatia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Slunj (Hungarian Szluin, old German Sluin, Latin Slovin, archaic Croatian Slovin grad) is a town in the mountainous part of Central Croatia, located along the important North-South route to the Adriatic Sea between Karlovac and Plitvice Lakes National Park, on the meeting of the rivers Korana and Slunjčica. Slunj has a population of 1,674, with a total of 5,076 people in the municipality (2011)[3] and is the cultural and social center of the region of Kordun in the vicinity to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Administratively, the town is part of Karlovac County. Slunj is an underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as part of the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.[4]
Slunj | |
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Grad Slunj Town of Slunj | |
Coordinates: 45°06′56″N 15°35′05″E | |
Country | Croatia |
County | Karlovac County |
Government | |
• Mayor | Mirjana Puškarić (HDZ) |
Area | |
• Town | 393.4 km2 (151.9 sq mi) |
• Urban | 5.1 km2 (2.0 sq mi) |
Elevation | 258 m (846 ft) |
Population (2021)[2] | |
• Town | 4,224 |
• Density | 11/km2 (28/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,576 |
• Urban density | 310/km2 (800/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | 047 |
Website | slunj |