Cities also celebrate their birthdays and we prepared to them a piece of statistics as a gift!

Population, tourism, transport, culture... learn all in one spot

Maybe you have never noticed it, but May is a birthday month of several Croatian cities. Since we have recently published a new publication entitled the Statistical Postcards of Cities, this is a great opportunity to take a look in its contents and to sort out some interesting facts about cities celebrating their birthdays. Specifically, the birthday festivities in May take place in even four of seven cities sorted out in the publication.

Before we start this review, let us point out that, for the first time, the new publication systemises information on selected cities as well as their historical, cultural and tourist attractions all in one spot, and that it was created in the course of implementation of the Subnational Statistics, a European project aimed at collecting data on cities and their functional urban areas (FUA)[1].

It all begins on 5 May, when Pula celebrates its day of the city. The city with more than 52 thousand citizens is well loved by tourists as well, and a glimpse at annual data on tourism shows that the number of people passing through the streets of Pula multiplies every year. We are not sure if the citizens of Pula prefer walking or driving, but an interesting fact is that, statistically speaking, there is one registered private passenger car per two citizens.


The Saint Duje’s Day on 7 May is the date of the great festivity in Split. It is a good prelude to the tourist season as well. Specifically, even the seagulls on the quayside know that the second city by the number of citizens in Croatia is tremendously attractive to tourists, who realised more than 2.6 million nights in this city in 2022. Although the numbers most expected in Split are surely tourism results, take a look at other selected data as well.

 
To present our next city, we are taking you to the continent. In recent years, tourists keep perceiving Slavonia as a more and more attractive destination, while in Slavonski Brod, whose day of the city is celebrated on 16 May, citizens and their visitors have an opportunity to take a bike tour on 64 km long bike lanes.


The last day in May is booked for the festivity in Zagreb. The capital city, which at the same time holds a status of a county, is selected by many people as the place where they reside, study and work. This is confirmed by highlighted data presented in the visual that follows.
A vaste number of people visit numerous theatres and cinemas, so it is no wonder that, in 2022, as much as 1.4 million cinema tickets were sold. Interestingly enough, although one can percieve a city traffic as extremely busy one, there is only one registered private passenger car per almost three citizens of Zagreb.


Data on the remaining three cities - Rijeka, Osijek and Zadar - as well as more detailed information on Pula, Slavonski Brod and Zagreb are available in the publication.
To all cities, we wish not only a happy day of the city but also a very successful overall year!

^{[1] A functional urban area (or metropolitan area) consists of the city (a core area) and its surrounding less densely populated space units that make its urban labour market, that is, its commuting zone. Such areas are often considered “functional” because they encompass the overall economic functioning of a city.}

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