Baltic Travel Agent Specialists
Croatia is a Central European and Mediterranean country. Croatia covers a land area of 56,691 square kilometres and has a population of about 4.4 million people (2001 census). Over 90% of the population is Croat (the majority of whom are Roman Catholics), but there are also Serbian, Bosnian, Hungarian and Italian minorities. The main population centres are Zagreb, the capital (with a population of just under 800,000), Osijek in the northwest, and the ports of Rijeka, and Split in the south. The official language is Croatian, which is written in the Latin script.
The
climate is Mediterranean along the Adriatic coast, meaning warm dry
summers and mild winters, with 2,600 hours of sunlight on average yearly
- it is one of the sunniest coastlines in Europe! In the interior of
the country, the climate is continental with hot summers and cold, snowy
winters.
The Croatian currency is the Kuna, which is divided into 100 lipas.
CROATIA
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