RURAL DEVELOPMENT DIGRESSION ON AREA OF KAKANJ
RURAL DEVELOPMENT DIGRESSION ON AREA OF KAKANJ

Author(s): Mensur Jašarspahić
Subject(s): Economic history, Recent History (1900 till today), Rural and urban sociology, Economic development
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Kakanj; Bosnia and Herzegovina; rural development;
Summary/Abstract: To explain the importance of rural development for Kakanj, we provide some introductory information. Municipality Kakanj occupies a central position in the the Sarajevo-Zenica valley, economically the most important and most densely populated region of BiH. The municipality has 46,000 inhabitants and covers an area of 377 km ². By railway Doboj-SarajevoPloče, the main road and the M17 motorway - Corridor VC it is associated with all centers in the BiH, and through them, with Europe and the world. In 1991 in the municipality of Kakanj there were 106 inhabited locations, and according to estimates of the Federal Bureau of Statistics, that number has remained the same in 2006. In the segment of the urban and rural population in 2006 there have been significant changes in relation to 1991.

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