Today's Zagreb County, popularly known as "Zagreb ring", located in the central part of northwestern Croatia, occupies 3060 square kilometers whit 317 642 inhabitants. Surface of the sixth, the second largest County in Croatia , and it consists of nine cities and 25 municipalities. The specific geographical location, next to the border with Slovenia and near Zagreb, make this region to one important crossroads of European transport routes and major transit area.

Croatia is a European country and is part of the Mediterranean, as it occupies most of the coastline of the Adriatic Sea with the islands. Includes Dinara mountain range, which separates the Mediterranean part from mid-European continental, and part of the Pannonian Basin. The mainland part of the Croatian is 56 594 km2, and the surface of the coastal sea 31,479 km2, and the entire area has 4,290,612 inhabitants. Economic, political and cultural center is the capital city of Zagreb with 792,875 inhabitants. Of 1244 islands and islets, 50 of them are inhabited, and the largest are Cres and Krk. The official currency is the kuna.