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World > Europe > Croatia
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Croatia |
Introduction:
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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, 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.
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| Official name: |
Republic of Croatia |
| Capital: |
name: Zagreb
geographic coordinates: 45 48 N, 16 00 E
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October |
| Government type: |
presidential/parliamentary democracy |
| Population: |
4,493,312 (July 2007 est.) |
| Languages: |
Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census) |
| Official Currency: |
Croatian Kuna (HRK)
Current Croatian Kuna Exchange Rates
Historical Croatian Kuna Exchange Rates
Chart Croatian Kuna Exchange Rates |
| Currency code: |
HRK |
| Area: |
total: 56,542 sq km
land: 56,414 sq km
water: 128 sq km |
| Climate: |
Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast |
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Map of Croatia
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