Location | Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Slovenia |
Area | total: 56,542 sq km
land: 56,414 sq km
water: 128 sq km |
Population | 4,493,312 (July 2007 est.) |
Languages | Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian,
Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census) |
National holidays | Independence Day, 8 October (1991); note - 25 June 1991 was the day the
Croatian Parliament voted for independence; following a three-month moratorium
to allow the European Community to solve the Yugoslav crisis peacefully,
Parliament adopted a decision on 8 October 1991 to sever constitutional
relations with Yugoslavia |
More information | www.croatia.com/ |
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