Capital of Croatia:
ZagrebArea of Croatia: 56,594 km² (21,851 mi²) (
126th)
Population of Croatia: 3,875,325 (
130th) - (2024 est.)
Location: Southern Europe
Languages of Croatia: Croatian (official) 95.2%,
Serbian 1.2%, other 3.1% (including Bosnian, Romani, Albanian, and Italian) unspecified 0.5% (2021 est.)
Religions of Croatia: Roman Catholic 83.04%,
Eastern Orthodox 3.35%,
Protestant 0.26%,
Other Christian 0.73%,
Muslim 1.32%,
other 1.1%, agnostic 1.7%, none or atheist 4.66%, unspecified 3.86% (2021 est.)
Ethnic groups of Croatia: Croat 91.6%,
Serb 3.2%,
others 3.9% (including Bosniak, Romani, Albanian, Italian, and Hungarian), unspecified 1.3% (2021 est.)
Currency:
Euro (
€) (
EUR)
Time zone:
UTC+1 (
CETCentral European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. It is used in most parts of Europe and in several African countries. CET is also known as Middle European Time and by colloquial names such as Amsterdam Time, Berlin Time, Brussels Time, Budapest Time, Madrid Time, Paris Time, Stockholm Time, Rome Time, Prague time, Warsaw Time or Romance Standard Time (RST).), Summer (
DSTDaylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in spring or late winter, and to set clocks back by one hour to standard time in the autumn (or fall in North American English, hence the mnemonic: 'spring forward and fall back').)
UTC+2 (
CESTCentral European Summer Time, sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia.)
Calling code: (
+385)
Organizations: United Nations, North Atlantic Treaty Organizationa
Border countries (5):
Bosnia and Herzegovina 956 km,
Hungary 348 km,
Montenegro 19 km,
Serbia 314 km,
Slovenia 600 km.
Coastline: Adriatic Sea 5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km).
Maritime boundaries: Adriatic Se
Administrative divisions of Croatia
20 counties (zupanije, zupanija - singular)
and 1 city* (grad - singular)
with special county status:
Bjelovarsko-Bilogorska (Bjelovar-Bilogora), Brodsko-Posavska (Brod-Posavina), Dubrovacko-Neretvanska (Dubrovnik-Neretva), Istarska (Istria), Karlovacka (Karlovac), Koprivnicko-Krizevacka (Koprivnica-Krizevci), Krapinsko-Zagorska (Krapina-Zagorje), Licko-Senjska (Lika-Senj), Medimurska (Medimurje), Osjecko-Baranjska (Osijek-Baranja), Pozesko-Slavonska (Pozega-Slavonia), Primorsko-Goranska (Primorje-Gorski Kotar), Sibensko-Kninska (Sibenik-Knin), Sisacko-Moslavacka (Sisak-Moslavina), Splitsko-Dalmatinska (Split-Dalmatia), Varazdinska (Varazdin), Viroviticko-Podravska (Virovitica-Podravina), Vukovarsko-Srijemska (Vukovar-Syrmia), Zadarska (Zadar), Zagreb*, Zagrebacka (Zagreb county).
Natural resources: oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower.