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Virovitica-Podravina County Virovitičko-podravska županija
County
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Virovitica-Podravina County within Croatia
Country	Croatia
County seat	Virovitica
Government
• Župan	Igor Andrović (HDZ)
Area
• Total	2,024 km (781 sq mi)
Population
• Total	70,660
• Density	35/km (90/sq mi)
Area code	033
ISO 3166 code	HR-10
HDI (2022)	0.818 very high · 21st
Website	http://www.vpz.hr/

Virovitica-Podravina County (pronounced [ʋiroʋǐtit͡sa-pǒdraʋina]; Croatian: Virovitičko-podravska županija [ʋiroʋǐtit͡ʃko-pǒdraʋskaː ʒupǎnija]; Hungarian: Verőce-Drávamente megye) is a northern Slavonian county in Croatia. Its county seat is in Virovitica and it includes the area around the Drava river, Podravina being the Drava's drainage basin. Other notable towns are Slatina and Orahovica.

Administrative division

Virovitica-Podravina County holds the following towns and districts:

Towns

Municipalities

Demographics

As of the 2011 census, the county had 84,836 residents. The population density is 42 people per km².

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Ethnic Croats form the majority with 91.8% of the population, followed by Serbs at 6.0%.

Politics

Minority councils and representatives

Directly elected minority councils and representatives are tasked with consulting tasks for the local or regional authorities in which they are advocating for minority rights and interests, integration into public life and participation in the management of local affairs. At the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections Serbs of Croatia fulfilled legal requirements to elect 25 members minority council of the Virovitica-Podravina County while Albanians and Hungarians of Croatia were electing individual representatives. Some municipalities, towns or cities in the county elected their own local minority councils as well.

References

1. Ostroški, Ljiljana, ed. (December 2015). Statistički ljetopis Republike Hrvatske 2015 [Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia 2015] (PDF). Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Croatia (in Croatian and English). Vol. 47. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. p. 62. ISSN 1333-3305. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
2. ^ "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: County of Virovitica-Podravina". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
3. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
4. "Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census: County of Virovitica-Podravina". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
5. "Manjinski izbori prve nedjelje u svibnju, kreću i edukacije". T-portal. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
6. ^ "Informacija o konačnim rezultatima izbora članova vijeća i izbora predstavnika nacionalnih manjina 2023. X. VIROVITIČKO-PODRAVSKA ŽUPANIJA" (PDF) (in Croatian). Državno izborno povjerenstvo Republike Hrvatske. 2023. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 10 June 2023.

External links

• Official website (in Croatian)

v t e Subdivisions of Virovitica-Podravina County
Towns	Orahovica Slatina Virovitica (seat)
Municipalities	Crnac Čačinci Čađavica Gradina Lukač Mikleuš Nova Bukovica Pitomača Sopje Suhopolje Špišić Bukovica Voćin Zdenci

45°52′23″N 17°30′18″E / 45.873°N 17.505°E / 45.873; 17.505

• Virovitica-Podravina County
• Slavonia
• Counties of Croatia