1.4.2009 - Data to Dalmatia
Coastline: 3,000 km (including 900 mainland coast)
Area: 12,000 sq km (of which 2,000 sq km islands)
Islands: approximately 1000 (of which 60 are inhabited year-round)
Length (NW-SE): 330 km (The coast road is about 500 km long)
Inhabitants: 860.000
Largest Cities: Split (100,000 inhabitants)
Dubrovnik
Zadar
Counties (such as "Provinces"): Zadar
Sibenik-Knin
Dubrovnik-Neretva
Split-Dalmatia
Economy in Dalmatia
Dalmatia is an agricultural region. Near the coast and on the islands are mainly fruit, vegetables, wine and cereals, and that was for centuries before that. But the field work is demanding and many young Croats are yearning for a less physical job. High drain and emigration rates are the result, who it attracts not abroad, trying in the big cities such as Split foothold. Outside the cities are already full improvised satellite towns emerged, while in the villages in the country more and more houses are free. It is also the labor market in the cities is not really tempting: 20% of Croats are unemployed.
Equally time-consuming, exhausting and traditionally as the field work, fishing. Especially in smaller places tourists go still every morning the fishermen out at lunch against their catch to restaurants or to get lost in your own guest house for tourists to make. Ever in Croatia is much more than in Western Europe exclusively for captive worked. So also have the shepherds on the Dalmatian islands usually no large flocks, but only the animals, their wool, milk and meat needs of their families themselves.
Because of the traditional professions as an alternative only to work in the textile, footwear, pharmaceuticals, furniture and chemical industry, in shipyards or engineering factories were possible, says it is especially about the onslaught of tourists. For many families is the visit of foreigners is the only source of income and the last resort a pleasant and relatively prosperous life in the region to lead in which the ancestors have felt at home.
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