Cazin

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Cazin is a town and a center of the municipality with the same name in the northwestern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the crossroads that leads from Bihac to Velika Kladusa, neighboring Croatia and West Europe, and further across Rakovica to the Adriatic Sea and across Bosanska Krupa to Banja Luka, Tuzla and the east.
The territory of the Cazin municipality covers 356 square kilometers. According to the latest assessments (April 2005), around 72,000 residents live in 22 local communities in the Cazin municipality.
According to the census from 1991, the Cazin municipality had 63,406 residents - 97.56% Bosniaks, 1.21% Serbs, and 1.23% others. The low relief between 200 and 400 meters of height above sea level dominates in the Cazin municipality. Total cultivable land amounts to 21,331 hectares. Forestland amounts to around 25% of the territory, while water flows cover around 0.18% of the territory.