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Croatia (in Serbo-Croatian: Hrvatska) is a nation of the Balkan Peninsula. Its capital is Zagreb.
Background
In 1918, Austria-Hungary disintegrated after being on the losing side in WW1. Three of its peoples, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes, formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became an 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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| National motto: None | |||
| Official language | Croatian | ||
| Capital | Zagreb | ||
| President | Stjepan Mesic | ||
| Prime Minister | José Manuel Durão Barroso | ||
| Area - Total - % water | Ranked 123th 56,542 km² 0.01% | ||
| Population - Total (2000) - Density | Ranked 79th 4,390,751 83/km² | ||
| Independence | 1991 | ||
| Currency | kuna | ||
| Time zones | UTC -1 to 0 | ||
| National anthem | Lijepa nasa domovino | ||
| Internet TLD | .HR | ||
| Calling Code | 385 | ||
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From the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.
- History of Croatia
- Geography of Croatia
- Demographics of Croatia
- Politics of Croatia
- Economy of Croatia
- Communications in Croatia
- Transportation in Croatia
- Military of Croatia
- Foreign relations of Croatia
International rankings
- world-wide press freedom index Rank 33 out of 139 countries (2 way tie)