Republic of Croatia
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Republic of Croatia
Republika Hrvatska (Croatian)
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Location of Croatia (dark green)
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| Capital and largest city |
Zagreb 45°48′N 16°0′E / 45.800°N 16.000°E |
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| Official languages | Croatian | ||||
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| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic | ||||
| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | |||||
| Andrej Plenković | |||||
| Božo Petrov | |||||
| Miroslav Šeparović | |||||
| Legislature | Sabor | ||||
| Establishment | |||||
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• Duchy
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8th century | ||||
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• Kingdom
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c. 925 | ||||
| 1102 | |||||
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• Joined Habsburg Monarchy
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1 January 1527 | ||||
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• Secession from
Austria-Hungary |
29 October 1918 | ||||
| 4 December 1918 | |||||
| 25 June 1991 | |||||
| 1 July 2013 | |||||
| Area | |||||
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• Total
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56,594 km2 (21,851 sq mi) (126th) | ||||
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• Water (%)
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1.09 | ||||
| Population | |||||
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• 2016 estimate
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4,190,700 | ||||
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• 2011 census
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4,284,889 (128th) | ||||
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• Density
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75.8/km2 (196.3/sq mi) (126th) | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate | ||||
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• Total
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$97.026 billion | ||||
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• Per capita
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$23,171 | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate | ||||
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• Total
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$51.945 billion | ||||
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• Per capita
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$12,405 | ||||
| Gini (2014) |
 30.2medium |
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| HDI (2014) |
 0.818very high · 47th |
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| Currency | Kuna (HRK) | ||||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||||
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• Summer (DST)
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CEST (UTC+2) | ||||
| Drives on the | right | ||||
| Calling code | +385 | ||||
| ISO 3166 code | HR | ||||
| Internet TLD | .hra | ||||
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| Most populous cities of Croatia | ||||||||||
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Rank | City | County | Urban population | City-governed population | |||||
| 1 | Zagreb | City of Zagreb | 688,163 | 790,017 | ||||||
| 2 | Split | Split-Dalmatia | 167,121 | 178,102 | ||||||
| 3 | Rijeka | Primorje-Gorski Kotar | 128,314 | 128,624 | ||||||
| 4 | Osijek | Osijek-Baranja | 83,104 | 108,048 | ||||||
| 5 | Zadar | Zadar | 71,471 | 75,082 | ||||||
| 6 | Pula | Istria | 57,460 | 57,460 | ||||||
| 7 | Slavonski Brod | Brod-Posavina | 53,531 | 59,143 | ||||||
| 8 | Karlovac | Karlovac | 46,833 | 55,705 | ||||||
| 9 | Varaždin | Varaždin | 38,839 | 46,946 | ||||||
| 10 | Šibenik | Šibenik-Knin | 34,302 | 46,332 | ||||||
| 11 | Sisak | Sisak-Moslavina | 33,332 | 47,768 | ||||||
| 12 | Vinkovci | Vukovar-Srijem | 32,032 | 35,312 | ||||||
| 13 | Velika Gorica | Zagreb | 31,553 | 63,517 | ||||||
| 14 | Dubrovnik | Dubrovnik-Neretva | 28,434 | 42,615 | ||||||
| 15 | Bjelovar | Bjelovar-Bilogora | 27,024 | 40,276 | ||||||
| 16 | Vukovar | Vukovar-Srijem | 26,486 | 27,683 | ||||||
| 17 | Koprivnica | Koprivnica-Križevci | 23,955 | 30,854 | ||||||
| 18 | Solin | Split-Dalmatia | 20,212 | 23,926 | ||||||
| 19 | Zaprešić | Zagreb | 19,644 | 25,226 | ||||||
| 20 | Požega | Požega-Slavonia | 19,506 | 26,248 | ||||||
| Source: 2011 Census | ||||||||||
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Coordinates: 45°10′N 15°30′E / 45.167°N 15.500°E
– in Europe (green & dark grey)
– in the European Union (green) – [Legend]
Croatia (
i/kroʊˈeɪʃə/ kroh-AY-shə; Croatian: Hrvatska [xř̩ʋaːtskaː]), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska, 
listen ), is a sovereign state between Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean. Its capital city is Zagreb, which forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with its twenty counties. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres (21,851 square miles) and has diverse, mostly continental and Mediterranean climates. Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands. The country's population is 4.28 million, most of whom are Croats, with the most common religious denomination being Roman Catholicism.
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