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Grude
Location of Grude within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government
• Municipality president	Viktor Marić (HDZ BiH)
Population
• Total	15,976
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+387 39
Website	http://www.grude.ba

Grude is a town and municipality in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the region of Herzegovina.

Grude was the birthplace of Andrijica Šimić, the hajduk and Antun Branko Šimić, the poet, Zvonimir Boban and Dario Šimić the soccer players, Milan Bandić the plitician, mayor capital of Croatia - Zagreb.

Geography

Grude is 49 kilometers from Mostar,19 kilometers from Imotski, and 100 km from Split.

Population/Demographics

1971

19.203 total

Croats - 19.111 (99,52%)
Serbs - 32 (0,16%)
Yugoslavs - 5 (0,02%)
others - 55 (0,30%)

1991

In the 1991 census, the municipality of Grude had a population of 15,976 residents, of which there were 15,939 Croats (99.77%), 8 Serbs (0.05%), 4 Bosniaks (0.03%), 4 Yugoslavs (0.03%), and 21 others (0.13%). The town of Grude had 3,528 residents: nearly 100% being Croats.

Sports

The town is home to the football club HNK Grude. NK Drinovci is also based nearby in the town of Drinovci (located in the same municipality). De Boules clubs Grude, Sv. Stipan, Sovići. Grude was host for De Boules World Cup 2007.