sentences:  The municipality consists of two villages – Sveta Marija and Donji Mihaljevec.It was established in 1997, prior to which the two villages belonged to the municipality of Kotoriba.In the 2011 census, the municipality had a population of 2,317, with 1,594 people living in Sveta Marija and the remaining 723 in Donji Mihaljevec at the time.