PeoplePopulation: 4.5 million (July 2004 est.). Population growth rate: -0.02 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 74.1 years. Religions: Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, others and unknown 6.2% (2001). Ethnic groups: Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1% (2001). Language: Croatian 96%, other 4% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German). Nationality: Croat(s), Croatian(s). |
PeoplePopulation: 4.5 million (July 2004 est.). Population growth rate: -0.02 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 74.1 years. Religions: Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, others and unknown 6.2% (2001). Ethnic groups: Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1% (2001). Language: Croatian 96%, other 4% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German). Nationality: Croat(s), Croatian(s). |
PeoplePopulation: 4.5 million (July 2004 est.). Population growth rate: -0.02 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 74.1 years. Religions: Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, Muslim 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, others and unknown 6.2% (2001). Ethnic groups: Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1% (2001). Language: Croatian 96%, other 4% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German). Nationality: Croat(s), Croatian(s). |
GeographyCountry name: Republic of Croatia (local: Republika Hrvatska). Capital: Zagreb. Government type: presidential/parliamentary democracy. Independence: 25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia). Constitution adopted on 22 December 1990; revised 2001. Administrative divisions: 20 counties and 1 city. Terrain: geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands. Natural hazards: destructive earthquakes. Total area: 56,542 kmē. Coastline: 5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km). Highest point: Dinara 1,830 m. Climate: Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast. Ports and harbors: Dubrovnik, Dugi Rat, Omisalj, Ploce, Pula, Rijeka, Sibenik, Split, Vukovar (inland waterway port on Danube), Zadar. Croatia controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish Straits. |
fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
The
lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until
the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a
kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia.
Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter,
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