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| AREA |
56,610
sq km (21,857 sq miles). |
| POPULATION |
4,777,000 (1994). |
| POPULATION DENSITY |
84.4 per sq km. |
| CAPITAL |
Zagreb |
| CAPITAL
POPULATION |
706,770 (1991) |
| GEOGRAPHY |
Croatia stretches along
the Adriatic coast (narrowing north-south;
the major ports being Rijeka, Pula, Zadar,
Sibenik, Split and Dubrovnik) and a larger
inland area (running west-east from Zagreb
to the Danubian border with Serbia, part
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
The country borders Slovenia and Hungary
to the north, Serbia and Montenegro to the
east (both parts of the Former Republic
of Yugoslavia), and Bosnia-Herzegovina (southeast
from Zagreb; northeast from the Adriatic
coastline). |
| GOVERNMENT |
Republic. Independence
from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
proclaimed in 1991. Head of State: President
Stipe Mesic since 2000. Head of Government:
Prime Minister Ivic Racan since 2000. |
| LANGUAGE |
Croat, written in the
Latin alphabet. |
| RELIGION |
Roman Catholic Croats
(76.5% of the total population) and Eastern
Orthodox Serbs (11%), as well as small communities
of Protestants, Jews and Muslims. |
| STANDARD TIME |
GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 from
last Saturday in March to Saturday before
last Sunday in October). |
| ELECTRICITY |
220 volts AC, 50Hz. |
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