Vugrovec is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

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. It is formally a settlement (

naselje Settlements in Croatia, in Croatian ''naselje'' ( pl. ''naselja'') are the third-level spatial division of the country, and usually indicate existing or former human settlement. Each Croatian city or town (''grad'', pl. ''gradovi'') or municip ...

) of

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, the capital of Croatia. For the

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, the village was divided into Vugrovec Gornji and

Vugrovec Donji Vugrovec Donji is a village in Croatia. It was formally a settlement (naselje) of Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the No ...

. For the

2021 Croatian census The Census of population, households and apartments in the Republic of Croatia in 2021 (Croatian language, Croatian: Popis stanovništva, kućanstva i stanova u Republici Hrvatskoj 2021. godine; shortened: Census 2021, Popis 2021.) was the 4th dec ...

, Vugrovec Donji,

Kućanec Kućanec is a village in Croatia, formerly part of City of Zagreb A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the t ...

, and

Vuger Selo Vuger Selo is a village in Croatia, formerly part of City of Zagreb. For the 2021 Croatian census The Census of population, households and apartments in the Republic of Croatia in 2021 (Croatian language, Croatian: Popis stanovništva, kućanstva ...

have been merged into a new

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named Vugrovec, while Vugrovec Gornji remains as a separate settlement. Vugrovec is located about northeast of Zagreb city centre, and north of

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. Vugrovec lent its name to the Vuger stream, whose source lies nearby.

Demographics

According to the 2021 census, its population was 920.

References

Populated places in the City of Zagreb {{ZagrebCity-geo-stub