Canton 4 of 10Zeničko-dobojski kanton
Zenica-Doboj Canton
A central industrial canton along the Bosna River valley, containing major steelworks in Zenica. Heavily populated with a Bosniak majority.
Capital
Zenica
Population majority
Bosniak
Entity
Federation of BiH
What a canton governs
Under the Federation constitution the cantons hold police, education, culture, housing, public services, local land use, tourism and cantonal budgets. This is why school curricula, police uniforms and hospital funding differ from canton to canton, and why the Federation has thirteen governments in total.
Seat of the canton
Zenica
An industrial center located in the Bosna River valley, about 70 km north of Sarajevo. It is closely associated with metallurgy and mining.
Historically grew rapidly in the Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav periods as a major steel-producing hub of the Western Balkans.
70,553 residents (2013 census, urban settlement; the whole City of Zenica had 110,663)
Heritage in and around Zenica
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