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and other media. It collects, records, processes and publishes geographical
names. The first database of the register of geographical names on the CGI
was made in the year 2004 (Croatian Geodetic Institute 2004).
The Gazetteer is continuously updated with new names of the larger scale.
In the moment Gazetteer includes geographical names of Croatian territory
that match the scale 1:200 000. The Gazetteer contains all names of: coun-
ties, cities/municipalities, settlements, cultural heritage of Croatia under
UNESCO protection, airports, national parks, nature parks, other protected
natural objects (features), new official map sheets names in the scales
250k, 100k, 50k and 25k, the names used in the EuroRegionalMap,
EuroGlobalMap v.3.0, etc. Although there are no official registers, the
names of all islands, rivers, lakes, mountains, peaks and other dominant
geographic objects (features) in accordance with the scale are introduced.
Table 2 gives an overview of the named features in the main feature group.
Each Gazetteer record contains: a record number of geographical names
sorted alphabetically, the name of geographic objects (features), the
administrative area of the geographical feature (object), E East and N
North coordinates in new Croatian projection terrestrial reference system
(HTRS96/TM), the classification of geographic objects (features) and the
geographic objects (features) code (Štefan et al. 2009).
Group
Nr.
Geographical units
169
Landforms
940
Water, land and sea
745
Islands, peninsulas, islets and reefs
682
Buildings and other facilities
51
Areas
606
Populated place
7649
Transportation network
9
Table 2: . Named features in the main feature group
 
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