A centrally located trade hub strategically benefiting from national highway, railroad and air transportation networks, Zagreb serves as the capital city for the Republic of Croatia. Croatia is both a sovereign state and a member of the European Union.

A popular nickname for Zagreb is “The City of Museums” reflecting the fact that Croatia’s capital has the most museums per capita.

Zagreb’s Archaeological Museum is famous for its Egyptian collection including the Zagreb mummy with its bandages and the world’s oldest example of an inscription written in Old Italic script. Also in Zagreb, the Croatian Natural History Museum displays skeletal evidence, stone weapons and tools of prehistoric Krapina man, making it one of the most revealing collections of Neanderthal remains uncovered from one site. The Croatian Museum of Naïve Art is among the first naïve art museums, located in the 18th-century Raffay Palace in Zagreb’s Gornji Grad district.

On the quirkier side, Zagreb also hosts the Museum of Broken Relationships showcasing mementoes from both happy and sad couples.

Research website numbeo ranks Zagreb in the top 38% compared to the 250 cities evaluated on its overall quality of life index at June 2020. Zagreb scored well on index factors such as safety (top 7%), pollution (cleanest 23%), traffic commute time (fastest 33%), On the negative side, Zagreb rates poorly for property price to income ratio (most expensive 28%) and purchasing power (weakest 34%).

Zagreb was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the site where Croatian Velika Gorica drove an electric car completing the fastest one eighth of a mile ever at 7.604 seconds. At the finish marker, the electric car was travelling at 59.179 miles (95.24 kilometers) per hour.

About one third of all Croatia’s businesses have their headquarters in Zagreb. The Zagreb Stock Exchange is also in Croatia’s capital city.

From an international trade perspective, Croatia exported an estimated US$17.1 billion worth of goods around the globe in 2019. Its most valuable exports include refined petroleum oils (6.7% of Croatia’s global total), drugs and medicines (3.9%), human or animal blood (2.6%), sawn or chipped wood (2.5%), motor cars (2.4%), automotive parts or accessories (1.9%), electrical transformers and static converters (also 1.9%), electrical energy (1.7%), hosiery including pantyhose (1.6%), and insulated wire or cable (1.4%) according to the International Trade Centre.

Capital Facts for Zagreb, Croatia: Quick Reference

 

Croatians celebrate Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day on August 5, commemorating when the Croatian Army captured the city of Knin from Serbia.

Zagreb’s land area measures 72 square miles (186 square kilometers), with an estimated population of 684,878 residents at August 21, 2020.

Croatia’s population count was 4.1 million Croatians. Croatian borders enclose a land area equal to 21,606 square miles (55,960 square kilometers).

Population density is more concentrated within Croatia’s capital city Zagreb, averaging 9,512 inhabitants per square mile (3,682 per square kilometer).

Zooming out to national borders, population density for Croatia dilutes to an average 190 people per square mile (73 per square kilometer).