_small.png "Escutcheon. Click to enlarge the image.") _small.jpg "Political chart. Click to enlarge the image.") Croatia (Croatian : Hrvatska) is a country of Europe of the South-east located in the North-West of the peninsula of Balkans.Geographically, it extends from the Eastern end of the Alps on its borders of the North-West, and the pannonian plains and banks of the Danube in the North-East, to the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea in the south, separated from the back-country by the mountainous solid mass of the Dinaric Alps in the center. Its surface is of 56,542 km², that is to say approximately 10 times less than that of France. The Croatian littoral counts 1 778 km of continental coasts and 5,790 km with the thousand and one islands. _small.jpg "The ethnic distribution of Croatia. Click to enlarge the image.") Politically, Croatia is bordered in north by Slovenia and Hungary, in the east and the south by Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro and in the east by Serbia.
Ethnically, the Croats represent the great majority of the population (90%), while the most minorities are the Serb ones (4,5%), Bosnians, Slovenians, Hungarians, Czechs, Italians and Albanians. The religious distribution is copied on the ethnic distribution with nearly 90% roman Catholics, 5% the orthodox ones and a small Moslem minority. |
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