Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital city and the largest city of the country of Croatia. It has a population of 792.000 people and its metropolitan area (Zagreb County, Krapina-Zagorje County and Sisak-Moslavina County) has a population of 1.2 million (2005).

Ban Jelačić Square

Croatian National Theater

Art Pavilion

The first mention of the name Zagreb appeared in 1094.

Sister cities

Zagreb is officially twinned with the following towns and cities:^[1]

• Mainz, Germany, since 1967
• Saint Petersburg, Russia, since 1968)
• Tromsø, Norway, since 1971
• Kyoto, Japan, since 1972
• Kraków, Poland, since 1975
• Lisbon, Portugal, since 1977
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., since 1980
• Shanghai, China, since 1980
• Bologna, Italy, since 1984
• Budapest, Hungary, since 1994
• Vienna, Austria, since 1994
• Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2001
• Ljubljana, Slovenia, since 2001
• Podgorica, Montenegro, since 2006