Bjelovar-Bilogora County
Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija | |
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 Bjelovar-Bilogora County within Croatia | |
| Country |  Croatia |
| County seat | Bjelovar |
| Government | |
| • Župan | Marko Marušić (HDZ) |
| • Assembly | 41 members |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,640 km2 (1,020 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
| • Total | 101,879 |
| • Density | 39/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| Area code | 043 |
| ISO 3166 code | HR-07 |
| HDI (2022) | 0.835[3] very high · 17th |
| Website | www |
Bjelovar-Bilogora County (pronounced [bjêloʋaːr-bîloɡora]; Croatian: Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija [bjêloʋaːrsko-bîloɡorskaː ʒupǎnija]) is a county in central Croatia.
The central city of Bjelovar was first mentioned in 1413, and it only gained importance when a new fort was built in 1756 to defend against the Ottoman invasions. The town was pronounced a free royal town in 1874.
The other part of the county name is for the hill of Bilogora that stretches along the northern edge of the county.
Other towns in the county are Daruvar, Garešnica, Čazma, and Grubišno Polje.
The Bjelovar-Bilogora County borders on the Koprivnica-Križevci County in the north, Virovitica-Podravina County in the northeast, Požega-Slavonia County in the southeast, Sisak-Moslavina County in the southwest, and Zagreb County in the west.
Alongside the City of Zagreb and Požega-Slavonia County, it is the only Croatian county that does not border another nation.
- ^ 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.
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