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Short
name |
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CROATIA |
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Official
name |
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Republic
of Croatia |
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Capital |
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Zagreb
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over 1,000,000
inhabitants; the |
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administrative, cultural, academic and
communication |
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centre of the country |
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Country Flag |
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National anthem |
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Our
Beautiful Fatherland |
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Independence |
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25
June 1991
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from
Yugoslavia |
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Population |
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4,784,265
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last
census |
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Ethnicity |
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Croat
78.1%. Serb 12.2%, Bosniak 0.9%, Hungarian
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0.5%, Slovene 0.5%,
Czech
0.4%, Albanian 0.3%,
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Montenegrin 0.3%, Roma
0.2%, others 6.6% |
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Religions |
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Roman
Catholic 76.5%, Orthodox 11.1%, Muslim 1.2%,
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Protestant 0.4%, others and unknown 10.8% (1991)
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Languages |
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Croatian 96%, other minority ethnic languages 4% |
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(including Italian, Hungarian, Czech,
Slovak, and German) |
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Location |
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Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea,
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between Italy, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and |
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Herzegovina,
Montenegro
and Macedonia |
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Climate |
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Mediterranean and continental;
continental climate |
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predominant with hot summers and cold winters.
Mild |
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winters, dry summers
along
the
coast |
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Elevation extremes |
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lowest point: Adriatic Sea 0 m, highest point: Dinara
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1,830
m |
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Natural resources |
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oil,
some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, |
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natural
asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt,
hydropower |
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Time
zone |
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European time zone |
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