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ABOUT
CROATIA
Location:
Geographically
situated on the cross-roads between Central Europe
and the Mediterranean.
General info:
Official name Republic of Croatia
Official language CroatianAlphabet LatinCurrency
Kuna (100 lipa)
Population (1991.) 4,784,000 (2,465,000 female,
2,319,000 male)
Number of islands 1,185 (66 inhabited)
Capital Zagreb (nearly 1 million inhabitants)
Political system:
parlamentary multiparty Republic
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: Political parties
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President's
office
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The Government
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The Parliament
Area:
Total state area 89,810 km2
Teritory area (land) 56,610 km2
Aquatorium area
(internal sea line) 33,200 km2
Marine economy region
(teritorial sea line) 23,870 km2
Total economy area 113,680 km2
Coastline length 5,835 km
Coastline length of mainland 1,777 km
Coastline length of islands 4,058 km
Teritorial-administrative
structure:
20 counties and the Town of Zagreb with 121 towns
and 416 communities
Other important
towns
(listed alphabetically)
Dubrovnik, Gospic, Karlovac, Osijek, Pula, Rijeka,
Slavonski Brod, Sisak, Split, Sibenik, Varazdin,
Vukovar, Zadar
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: Places
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Anthem:
The Republic of Croatia's national anthem is
"Lijepa nasa domovino" ("Our
Beautiful Homeland"). Antun Mihanovic is
the author of the lyrics.
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About
the Anthem
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Listen
the Anthem (800K)
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Law
on the National Anthem
Flag and Coat-of-Arms:
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The Croatian National flag is red-white-blue
tricolor (arranged in this order perpendicularly
to the staff), with the coat of arms (13 red
squares and 12 silver squares arranged intermittently
in a 5 times 5 pattern). This coat of arms was
affirmed by 15th century documents. It is a
very old symbol of Croatia ressembling a red-white
chess table. Now it also has a crown composed
of five regional symbols representing 1) The
oldest known Croatian coat of arms, 2) Dubrovnik,
3) Dalmatia, 4) Istria and 5) Slavonia.
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About the Coat-of-Arms
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Law
on the Coat-of-Arms and the Flag
Culture:
Belonging to the Middle-European and Mediterranean
cultural and civilisation circle and tradition.
Extremely rich and valuable cultural and historical
heritage is pointing to a millenium old presence
of Croatia in the area. The specific urban culture
of coastal and island areas is easily seen in
towns such as: Porec, Rovinj, Pula, Zadar, Sibenik,
Hvar, Korcula and Ston, with Split (Diocletian's
Palace) and Dubrovnik representing a part of
the world cultural heritage under UNESCO protection.
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