The aim of this paper is to determine territorial extent of the Urban Area of Čakovec and to analyze its main features and processes. With the use of specially processed data gathered from Census 2011, using the given criteria of the share of daily commutes in the total employed population and spatial continuity at the level of local govenrment units, an urban area was defined, consisting of Grad Čakovec and five municipalities of Međimurje. Čakovec, as the largest city, but also as the seat of Međimurje county, with its strong function of work influences the urbanization of the surrounding settlements. Therefore, is this paper after brief overview of physical-geographical, traffic-geographical and demographic features, a geographical analysis of urbanization was performed, which includes three mutually dependent elements: socioeconomic (changes in the share of the agricultural population and changes in the educational and economic structure of the population), functional (number of jobs and daily commutes into the city) and physiognomic (change in land use and residential suburbanization) transformation of surrounding settlements.