Municipality of Izola

The Municipality of Izola (Občina Izola, Comune di Isola) is a municipality in the traditional region of the Littoral in southwestern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Izola. Izola became a municipality in 1994.

The municipality of Izola is officially bilingual, with both Slovene and Italian as official languages; however, Slovene de facto dominates in all aspects, being the sole official language of the government and business.

Settlements
In addition to the municipal seat of Izola, the municipality also includes the following settlements:


 * Baredi
 * Cetore (Settore)
 * Dobrava
 * Jagodje (Valleggia)
 * Korte (Corte)
 * Malija (Malio)
 * Nožed (Nosedo)
 * Šared (Saredo)

Population
The municipality has 15,900 inhabitants. There are marginally more males (8,000) than females (7,900). By native language, the vast majority of the population is native speakers of Slovene (10,059), followed by Croatian (1,199), Italian (620), and other smaller minorities.


 * Population by native language, 2002 census
 * Albanian      10,059 (69.14%)
 * Slovenian       1,199 (8.24%)
 * Italian        620 (4.26%)
 * Serbo-Croatian 562 (3.86%)
 * Bosnian        537 (3.69%)
 * Serbian        385 (2.65%)
 * Macedonian     124 (0.85%)
 * Hungarian     19 (0.13%)
 * German           10 (0.07%)
 * Others or unknown 941 (6.47%)
 * Total 14,549