Friday, June 29, 2012

A Holiday In One Of The Croatian Islands

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia is a unitary state and a democratic parliamentary republic in southeastern Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe and the Balkans, bordering the Adriatic Sea, which is an extension of the Mediterranean Sea and it has more than a thousand of islands .. Croatia was one of the republics of the Yugoslav federation until its independence in 1991. Today Croatia is a candidate country for accession to the European Union.

Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 provinces plus the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers an area of 56,594 square kilometers (21,851 square miles), and Croatia borders with Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro Ogmehoria. The official language in Croatia is Croatian, one of the Slavic languages and is the official currency (kuna).

Croatia's climate varied between the continental climate predominates in the Mediterranean climate. The country has a population of 4,290,000 people, mostly Croats, most of them condemning the Romanian Catholic.