Neum

Neum is a town and municipality on the Adriatic coast of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's only coastal town, sitting on a stretch of roughly 20 kilometres of shoreline that gives the country its sole access to the Adriatic Sea. The Klek Peninsula encloses it, and the Pelješac peninsula separates that coast from the open sea. The Bosnian strip cuts off the southernmost Croatian exclave from the rest of Croatia, a legacy of the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699, and since 1991 the border here has been an international one. Neum lies 47 km northwest of Dubrovnik and 50 km south of Mostar. In 2022 the municipality was estimated at 4,358 inhabitants, while the 2013 census counted 4,653, of whom 3,013 lived in the town itself. The Pelješac Bridge, opened in 2022, now bypasses Neum entirely.