Zagreb is the capital and the largest city in Croatia, and is the only Croatian city whose metropolitan population exceeds one million people.

Zagreb is the cultural, scientific, economic and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia.
It is situated between the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain and both northern and southern bank of the Sava. river at an elevation of approximately 122 m above sea level.

The climate of Zagreb is continental, with four separate seasons.
Summers are hot and dry, and winters are cold. The average temperature in winter is 1 °C (34 °F) and the average temperature in summer is 20 °C (68 °F). Particularly, the end of May gets very warm with temperatures rising above 30 °C (86 °F). Snowfall is common in the winter months, from December to March, and rain and fog are common in fall (October to December).

Its favorable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, which extends to the Alpine, Dinaric, Adriatic and Pannonic regions, provides an excellent connection for traffic between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea.
The transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions and industrial tradition underlie its leading economic position in Croatia. Zagreb is the seat of the central government, administrative bodies and almost all government ministries.

Zagreb is international trade and business center, and the transport crossroad of Central and East Europe
Zagreb is an important tourist center, not only in terms of passengers travelling from Western and Central Europe to the Adriatic Sea, but also as a travel destination itself.

Since the end of the war, it has attracted around half a million visitors annually, mainly from Austria, Germany and Italy.
However, the city has even greater potential as many tourists that visit Croatia skip Zagreb in order to visit the beaches along the Croatian Adriatic coast and old historic Renaissance cities such as Dubrovnik, Split, and Zadar.