It is located at the confluence of the river Klina into the White Drin.

During early Middle Ages, Porphyrogenitus mentions the urban center of Desstinik, today Dresnik, where important archeological discoveries of Roman period were made in August 2013, described as: ...the most important discovery of the past few decades to have been made in Kosovo in the area of archaeology.

Based on the population estimates from the Kosovo Agency of Statistics in 2016, the municipality has 39,759 inhabitants.

The ethnic composition of the municipality: In September 2014, 12 Egyptian families returned to Klina having spent the last 15 years displaced in Podgorica, Montenegro.

The families moved straight into a newly constructed neighbourhood as part of project helping refugees from the Kosovo War return to Kosovo.