| Žejane | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Croatia |
| Coordinates: | 45.4406°N 14.1944°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Croatia |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Primorje-Gorski Kotar |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Matulji |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 22.6 |
| Elevation M: | 618 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 105 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 51212 |
Žejane (ruo|Jeiăn; it|Seiane) is a village in the eastern part of the mountainous Ćićarija area in Istria, in western Croatia. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Matulji in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. In 2011, the population of Žejane was 130.
The village is 18 km north-west of Matulji, near the municipality road leading from Vele Mune and Male Mune to Opatija and Rijeka, in a karst valley between two mountain ridges.
The village is known for the Ćići: Istro-Romanians who settled here in the late 15th, or early 16th century from 1510 until 1525, when the villages Vele Mune, Male Mune, and Žejane were settled by Krsto Frankopan.
| Population number according to the census | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857 | 1869 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1921 | 1931 | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| 505 | 546 | 531 | 565 | 601 | 596 | 547 | 540 | 511 | 493 | 383 | 379 | 250 | 189 | 141 | 130 |