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Hum is the smallest city of the world, located in central Istria

Location
Hum is the smallest city in the whole world. Hum is located in Croatia at the centre of Istria with about twenty residents. It is about a hour drive from Umag. Hum in Istria is friendly to visitors and you can always find a parking space there, traffic jams are rare even in the peak of the summer season. With nearby Roć, it is connected with the seven kilometer long Glagolitic alley. The whole city is surrounded by walls with few houses outside them and as a whole it is a monument of medieval architecture.

History
Hum in central Istria is a true city. It was built in the early Middle Ages, and was referred to as a city in 1102. It has its own major whom the citizens choose according to the ancient custom. Each year, the second Sunday in June, male residents gather in the city’s lodge. There are always two candidates for the major whose names are cut into two ends of the staff. Each participant makes a cut on the end of the stick with the name of his candidate, and the major becomes the one who gets more cuts. Hum belongs to the town of Buzet, but because of its historical status it is considered a city, and this is also confirmed in the Guinness Book of Records, which recognized it as the smallest city in the world with its miniature dimensions of just one hundred meters in length and 35 meters wide and the population that according to the last list counted 21 people.

Origin
According to the origin of Hum, a long, long time ago, giants lived in Istria. Most of them were good and helped people around difficult jobs such as grooming or building houses. In order to protect their friends from enemies, the giants decided to build fortresses in the valley of the river Mirna. Giants started to work and built cities like Motovun or Grožnjan, but when they finished the job and settled people in them, they saw that there were still rocks that were insufficient to build another city the size of the others. It was said that the giants didn't want to waste that much stone in Istria so they built on the top of a mountain town and surrounded the city with a thick wall and called it Hum. .