Kloštar Ivanić is a settlement and the surrounding municipality in central

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, located in the

Zagreb County Zagreb County ( hr, Zagrebačka županija) is a county in Northern Croatia. It surrounds, but does not contain, the nation's capital Zagreb, which is a separate territorial unit. For that reason, the county is often nicknamed "Zagreb ring" ( hr, z ...

, about 50 kilometres southeast of the city of

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and 30 kilometers north of

Sisak Sisak (; hu, Sziszek ; also known by other alternative names) is a city in central Croatia, spanning the confluence of the Kupa, Sava and Odra rivers, southeast of the Croatian capital Zagreb, and is usually considered to be where the Posavin ...

. According to the 2011 census, there are 6,091 inhabitants in Kloštar Ivanić proper and the surrounding ten villages which make up the municipality, 97.2% of whom are ethnic

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. The municipality is part of the

Moslavina Moslavina () is a microregion in Croatia, administratively divided into the counties of Zagreb, Sisak-Moslavina and Bjelovar-Bilogora. The main city in the region in terms of traffic, commerce and business is the city of Kutina (central Moslavi ...

microregion. The nearest town is

Ivanić-Grad Ivanić-Grad or Ivanić Grad ( is a town in Zagreb County, Croatia. It is part of Moslavina. Geography Ivanić-Grad is located south-east from Zagreb, connected: * by highway A3 (Bregana-Zagreb-Ivanić-Grad-Slavonski Brod-Lipovac) * by train ...

, only 4 kilometres away.

Settlements

Like most

municipalities of Croatia Municipalities in Croatia ( hr, općina; plural: ''općine'') are the second-lowest administrative unit of government in the country, and along with cities and towns (''grad'', plural: ''gradovi'') they form the second level of administrative s ...

, Kloštar Ivanić is almost entirely rural, consisting of a collection of villages, the largest of which is also called Kloštar Ivanić and which serves as municipal seat. The following is a list of settlements with their populations per the

2011 Croatian census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

: * Bešlinec, population 390 * Čemernica Lonjska, population 261 * Donja Obreška, population 130 * Gornja Obreška, population 119 * Kloštar Ivanić, population 3,583 * Krišci, population 211 * Lipovec Lonjski, population 375 * Predavec, population 258 * Sobočani, population 460 * Stara Marča, population 138 * Šćapovec, population 166

References

External links

* Populated places in Zagreb County Municipalities of Croatia {{ZagrebCounty-geo-stub