Facts and Figures

Full name: Republic of Croatia

Nationality
        noun: Croat(s), Croatian(s)
        adjective: Croatian

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Area  
        total: 56,542 sq km
        land: 56,414 sq km
        water: 128 sq km

Population: 4,495,904 (July 2005 est.)

Ethnic groups
        Croat 89.6%
        Serb 4.5%
        other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma)

Capital: ZAGREB 726,770

Largest Cities  
        Split - 189,388
        Rijeka - 167,964
        Osijek - 104,761

Official Language 
        Croatian 96.1%
        Serbian 1%
        other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German)

Religion
        Roman Catholic 87.8%
        Orthodox 4.4%
        other Christian 0.4%
        Muslim 1.3%
        other and undesignated 0.9%
        none 5.2%

Political system: Republic

GDP: purchasing power parity - $50.33 billion

GDP per head: purchasing power parity - $11,200

Annual growth: 3.7% (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector
        agriculture: 8.2%
        industry: 30.1%
        services: 61.7%

Inflation: 2.5% (2004 est.)

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