Visiting Croatia
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Croatia facts, geography & history

Facts
Government: Presidential/parliamentary democracy.
Population (est.): 4,495,000.
Capital, population (est.): Zagreb, 690,000.
Language: Croatian 96% (official), other 4% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, German).
Monetary unit: Kuna.

Geography
Croatia is located in Southern Europe. Its shape resembles that of a crescent or a horseshoe, which flanks its neighbours Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. To the north lie Slovenia and Hungary; Italy lies across the Adriatic Sea. Its mainland territory is split in two non-contiguous parts by the short coastline of Bosnia and Herzegovina around Neum.
Its terrain is diverse, including:
plains, lakes and rolling hills in the continental north and northeast (Central Croatia and Slavonia, part of the Pannonian plain); densely wooded mountains in Lika and Gorski Kotar, part of the Dinaric Alps; rocky coastlines on the Adriatic Sea (Istria, Northern Seacoast and Dalmatia). The country is famous for its many national parks. Croatia has a mixture of climates. In the north and east it is continental, Mediterranean along the coast and a semi-highland and highland climate in the south-central region. Offshore Croatia consists of over one thousand islands varying in size.










National Geographic Adventure Magazine named Croatia as Destination of the Year in 2006.............
Adopted from and read more at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia

History
If you are interested in this country's history, please take a look here.