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tively long coast and because costal topographical relations mareonyms are
also used as map sheet names in all scales. Oronyms and regionyms are
mostly used in scale 25k because some Croatian regions are not densely
populated and there is no settlements (oikonyms). Two hydronyms are
used in the scale 25k. It is more exception because they are near border
with other countries, and the name of the map sheet should be name of the
topographical feature on the territory of Croatia.
Scale
Feature (object)
250k 100k 50k 25k
oikonym 12 52 159 512
mareonym 1 4 13 38
oronym 1 0 1 13
regionym 1 0 2 10
hydronym 0 0 0 2
Table 1:
Summary of the map scales names with respect to the feature (object) classes
and the scales
New map grids with nomenclatures can be found on the Internet address
http://listovi.cgi.hr/. On the site are new map grids described in details
(Hećimović and Bakalbašić 2009, Hećimović et al. 2009b, Hećimović and
Jakir 2009).
6- Gazetteer of the Republic of Croatia
According to the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical
Names the gazetteer is a list of toponyms arranged by alphabetical order or
another principle with information about their location, feature and possi-
bly their variant name, and contains other information. Gazetteer contains
reference data used with the maps. However, geographical names are not
only part of the map. They are an important communication tool that
reflects the historical and cultural development of an area. Gazetteer con-
tains endonyms. It standardizes geographical names in official documents,
registers, cadastre, encyclopedias, atlases, on radio, television, newspapers
