This sentence is everywhere: Hum is the smallest city in the world. From the publications of the Croatian Tourism Board, the articles in my Croatian language learning books, the posts in any travel guide for Croatia, till the board at the entrance to Hum. Whether this is true or not? God knows. I mean, define city, what is it? The presence of a post office, a bank, a bus or train station, a city hall, and a gas station? None of those things presents in Hum. It is a village, if I can call it a village after all, consists of like no more than 10 buildings including a konoba (typical local restaurant), two or three souvenir shops, a church, two rented rooms for tourists and few houses of locals. I believe that was it. But,
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