Info about Croatia

Croatia is a former Yugoslav republic on the Adriatic Sea. It is about the size of West Virginia. Part of Croatia is a barren, rocky region lying in the Dinaric Alps. The Zagorje region north of the capital, Zagreb, is a land of rolling hills, and the fertile agricultural region of the Pannonian Plain is bordered by the Drava, Danube, and Sava Rivers in the east. Over one-third of Croatia is forested.

Capital
Zagreb - 688 000 people
all city from Croatia

Country lead by
President: Stipe Mesic (2000)
Prime Minister: Ivo Sanader (2003)

Population
4,494,749 (growth rate: 0.0%); birth rate: 9.6/1000; infant mortality rate: 6.7/1000; life expectancy: 74.7; density per sq mi: 206

Land Area
21,781 sq mi (56,414 sq km); total area: 21,831 sq mi (56,542 sq km)

Monetary unit
Kuna

Language
Croatian 96% (official), other 4% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, German)

Ethnicity
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)

Religion
Roman Catholic 88%, Orthodox 4%, Muslim 1%, other Christian less than 1%, none 5% (2001)

Transportation
Railways: total: 2,726 km (2004). Highways: total: 28,344 km; paved: 23,979 km (including 455 km of expressways); unpaved: 4,365 km (2002). Waterways: 785 km (2004). Ports and harbors: Omisalj, Ploce, Rijeka, Sibenik, Vukovar (on Danube). Airports: 68 (2004 est.).

Internet tld
.hr

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