The thesis analyzes various methods for determining boundaries of urban settlements and assesses their advantages and disadvantages. The study was carried out on four examples of settlements in Slovenia, in Postojna, Pivka, Jesenice and Radovljica. It addresses some of the established measurements for determining boundaries of the urban settlements, e.g. population density, construction density, maximum distance between buildings and the actual land use. The analyses were carried out with a GIS tool ArcGIS, and they based on different registers of spatial data, e.g. register of house numbers, cadastre of buildings, register of real estate and central civil register. In all the four chosen settlements a survey was carried out as well. The analysis of the answers was done by applying two methods, the method of moving average and the method of variation spread of the neighbouring cells. We have looked for unified limit values for all the criterions and they were set in such a way as to suit all the addressed settlements as much as possible
