The border region covers 31 085 km2 and has a population of approximately 2.1 million people, 46% of whom live in Hungary and 54% in Croatia (Source: Eurostat, 2011). The programme area includes administrative units at NUTS III level as follows:
- Hungarian counties: Zala, Somogy and Baranya;
- Croatian counties: Međimurska, Varaždinska, Koprivničko-križevačka, Bjelovarsko-bilogorska, Virovitičko-podravska, Požeško-slavonska, Osječko-baranjska and Vukovarsko-srijemska.
While in the 2007-2013 period the four Croatian regions without direct access to the border had the status of 'adjacent counties', with less possibilities, from the 2014-2020 programme onward all the NUTS III regions included in the programme area have been having equal access to funding.
