Lovinac

County County A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain modern nations. Historically in mainland Europe, the original French term, comté, and its equivalents in other languages denoted a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain...	Lika-Senj Lika-Senj County Lika-Senj county is a county in Croatia that includes most of the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island...
Location	44.39°N 15.69°E
Mayor Mayor In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....	Hrvoje Račić (Independent)
Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...  (km²)	341,92
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... 2001	1,096 (municipality)
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Lovinac is a municipality in Lika-Senj County

Lika-Senj County

Lika-Senj county is a county in Croatia that includes most of the Lika region and some northern coastline of the Adriatic near the town of Senj, including the northern part of the Pag island...

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

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Geography

The village is located on the fields of Lika

Lika

Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east by the Malovan pass...

 (Ličko polje), and is visited by more people, largely due to the new highway

A1 (Croatia)

The A1 motorway is the longest motorway in Croatia spanning . As it connects Zagreb, the nation's capital, to Split, the second largest city in the country and the largest city in Dalmatia, the motorway represents a major north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and a significant part of the...

 that has been built along the village. It is located 35 kilometers from Gospić

Gospic

Gospić is a town in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika, Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Lika-Senj county. Gospić is located near the Lika River in the middle of a karst field....

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Population/Demographics

It has 1,096 inhabitants in the municipality, Croats

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

 make up 90% of the population.

Year of counting	Population
1857	1.423
1869	1.271
1880	1.044
1890	1.135
1900	1.320
1910	1.352
1921	1.365
1931	1.456
1948	929
1953	954
1961	869
1971	869
1981	640
1991	533
2001	288

Villages

• Gornja Ploča
  Gornja Ploča
  Gornja Ploča is a village in the Lika-Senj County, Croatia. The settlement is administered as a part of Lovinac municipality.-Location:Gornja Ploča is placed between Gospić and Gračac. It is located 27 kilometers from Gospić, and 3,6 kilometers from the Zagreb-Split highway. Gornja Ploča is located...
  
   - 22
• Kik - 3
• Ličko Cerje - 117
• Lovinac - 288
• Raduč - 11
• Ričice - 114
• Smokrić - 55
• Sveti Rok
  Sveti Rok
  Sveti Rok is a small village in the Lovinac municipality, in Lika–Senj County, Croatia. Sveti Rok has a population of 292. The majority of the population are Croats....
  
   - 292
• Štikada - 175
• Vranik - 19

Pilar (population 45) and Vrkljani (population 27) are hamlets near Lovinac.

Sources

• Lovinac official site