Has 1,244 islands, islets and reefs, and its Dalmatian coast gave the dog breed its name.
Croatia
Republic of Croatia ยท Hrvatska
Europe
ยท Southern Europe
- ISO codes
- HR ยท HRV
- Density
- 72 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Croatian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +385
- Internet domain
- .hr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 45.8060ยฐ N, 16.3720ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Croatian
- UN region
- Southern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $60.75B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Croatia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Croatia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,067,500 people, the 132nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,887 of everyone alive.
Covers 56,594 kmยฒ, making it the 127th largest country here - about 6.1 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 72 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Zagreb, at 45.80ยฐ N, 16.00ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 722,526.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Bosnia and Herz., Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Zagreb.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Croatian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
Sixteen terraced lakes whose travertine dams are still being built, millimetre by millimetre, by moss and algae.
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Croatia.