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<h2 id="municipality">Municipality</h2> <p>There are 11,246 inhabitants in the municipality, in the following <a href="/facts/Settlement_(Croatia)/cVEkwsWT">settlements</a>:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Brdce, population 67</li> <li>Bregi, population 700</li> <li>Brešca, population 159</li> <li><a href="/facts/Jurdani/NRepUfz6">Jurdani</a>, population 651</li> <li>Jušići, population 861</li> <li>Kućeli, population 455</li> <li>Lipa, population 129</li> <li><a href="/facts/Male_Mune/P7SYwvrS">Male Mune</a>, population 103</li> <li>Mali Brgud, population 134</li> <li>Matulji, population 3,731</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mihoti%C4%87i/sdlPqK2e">Mihotići</a>, population 1,050</li> <li>Mučići, population 362</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pasjak,_Matulji/IMLaq1PC">Pasjak</a>, population 140</li> <li><a href="/facts/Permani/HIhkKcau">Permani</a>, population 102</li> <li><a href="/facts/Rukavac,_Primorje-Gorski_Kotar_County/yCUt95Ve">Rukavac</a>, population 854</li> <li><a href="/facts/Rupa,_Croatia/vnkq7ulz">Rupa</a>, population 349</li> <li>Ružići, population 123</li> <li>Šapjane, population 188</li> <li><a href="/facts/Vele_Mune/YqCkqVX4">Vele Mune</a>, population 122</li> <li>Veli Brgud, population 485</li> <li>Zaluki, population 73</li> <li>Zvoneće, population 279</li> <li><a href="/facts/%C5%BDejane/2EowMDVo">Žejane</a>, population 130</li></ul> <p>In the 2011 census, 90.87% were <a href="/facts/Croats/pxr26XCP">Croats</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="transport">Transport</h2> <p>The municipality is of great transportation importance because of the major railway and highway networks connecting Rijeka with <a href="/facts/Ljubljana/zwTrXoTb">Ljubljana</a> and <a href="/facts/Trieste/I6eRqWpA">Trieste</a> to the west, <a href="/facts/Zagreb/KPf8bzLI">Zagreb</a> and <a href="/facts/Split_(city)/1zswoWtX">Split</a> to the east and <a href="/facts/Pula/SlkNDjR4">Pula</a> to the south through the <a href="/facts/U%C4%8Dka/mBIwuSyn">Učka</a> tunnel. Sixty five percent of the annual Croatian border traffic takes place through four international border crossings - Pasjak (with <a href="/facts/Starod/N1o82RwF">Starod</a> in <a href="/facts/Ilirska_Bistrica/8JIyPHpu">Ilirska Bistrica</a> municipality on the Slovenian side), <a href="/facts/Rupa,_Croatia/vnkq7ulz">Rupa</a> (with <a href="/facts/Jel%C5%A1ane/VLAkmthz">Jelšane</a>), Mune (with <a href="/facts/Starod/N1o82RwF">Starod</a>), and Lipa (with Novokračine) - within the Matulji municipality. Šapjane, a main railway crossing into Slovenia with <a href="/facts/Ilirska_Bistrica/8JIyPHpu">Ilirska Bistrica</a>) on the Slovenian side, is also in the municipality. </p><p>The Opatija - Matulji railway station, the principal railway station for Opatija and surrounding municipalities, was constructed and opened in 1873.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>The <a href="/facts/A7_(Croatia)/qLs4WBSp">A7 motorway</a> starts in the northern part of the municipality, on the border crossing with Slovenia and connects with the <a href="/facts/A8_(Croatia)/QHwzkwhs">A8 expressway</a> at the south, next to Rijeka and Opatija. </p> <h2 id="folklore">Folklore</h2> <p>The region is well known locally for its folklore, namely <a href="/facts/Zvon%C4%8Dari/6Hapu0z2">Zvončari</a> during the <a href="/facts/Rijeka_carnival/x6YkkoUf">carnival festivities</a>. </p> <h2 id="notable-people">Notable people</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Zoran_Marojevi%C4%87/ceLRkkUH">Zoran Marojević</a></li></ul> <h2 id="sources">Sources</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.tzmatulji.hr/en/">Matulji Tourist Board</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <p> Media related to Matulji at Wikimedia Commons </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Baština | Turistička zajednica". www.tzmatulji.hr. Retrieved 2023-05-25. <a href="https://www.tzmatulji.hr/hr/bastina/4/9" target="_blank">https://www.tzmatulji.hr/hr/bastina/4/9</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Matulji". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012. <a href="http://web.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_01/e01_01_01_zup08_2615.html" target="_blank">http://web.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_01/e01_01_01_zup08_2615.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Population by Ethnicity, by Towns/Municipalities, 2011 Census: County of Primorje-Gorski kotar". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012. <a href="http://web.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_04/e01_01_04_zup08.html" target="_blank">http://web.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/results/htm/E01_01_04/e01_01_04_zup08.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"History of Opatija". Retrieved 2 September 2019. <a href="http://www.opatija.net/hr/povijest" target="_blank">http://www.opatija.net/hr/povijest</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>