Vrhovine ( sr-Cyrl, Врховине) is a town and a municipality in

Lika-Senj County Lika-Senj County (, hr, Ličko-senjska županija) 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. Its center is Go ...

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. The municipality is part of Lika.

Languages and names

On the territory of Vrhovine municipality, in addition to Croatian which is official in the whole country,

Serbian language Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and K ...

and

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, t ...

alphabet have been introduced as a second official language.

Demographics

According to 2001 census, Vrhovine had 905 inhabitants of which 55.03% were

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

and 38.45% were

Croats The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, ...

. In the 2011 census, there were 1,381 inhabitants of which 80.23% were

and 12.74% were

. The majority of the population of the municipality is elderly. Because of this, the Croatian

Ministry of Family Affairs, War Veterans and Intergenerational Solidarity Ministry of Croatian Veterans ( hr, Ministarstvo hrvatskih branitelja, MHB) is a ministry of the Croatian Government which is split into several directorates: *Directorate for Family **This directorate is further split up into departments for fam ...

and the

United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

secured funding for a centre for the elderly.Municipality of Vrhovine Opened a Daily Care Center for the Elderly
/ref> The centre was opened by Minister

Jadranka Kosor Jadranka Kosor (; born 1 July 1953) is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the fi ...

in June, 2008.

References

Municipalities of Croatia Populated places in Lika-Senj County {{LikaSenj-geo-stub