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

Climate: Mediterranean and continental continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters mild winters, dry summers along coast

Terrain: geographically diverse flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands

Natural resources: oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower

Population: 4,491,543 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 15.8% [male 363,551/female 345,132]
15-64 years: 67.2% [male 1,501,949/female 1,517,962]
65 years and over: 17% [male 295,229/female 467,720] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Croat[s], Croatian[s]
adjective: Croatian

Ethnic groups: Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% [including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma] [2001 census]

Languages: Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% [including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German] [2001 census]

Capital: name: Zagreb
geographic coordinates: 45 48 N, 16 00 E
time difference: UTC+1 [6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: Independence Day, 8 October [1991] note - 25 June 1991 was the day the Croatian Parliament voted for independence following a three-month moratorium to allow the European Community to solve the Yugoslav crisis peacefully, Parliament adopted a decision on 8 October 1991 to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 7.2%
industry: 31.6%
services: 61.2% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 1.749 million [2007 est.]

Budget: revenues: $22.57 billion
expenditures: $23.92 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, barley, alfalfa, clover, olives, citrus, grapes, soybeans, potatoes livestock, dairy products

Industries: chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding, petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages, tourism

Exports: $12.02 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels

Exports - partners: Italy 23.1%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.7%, Germany 10.4%, Slovenia 8.3%, Austria 6.1% [2006]

Imports: $26.54 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: machinery, transport and electrical equipment chemicals, fuels and lubricants foodstuffs

Imports - partners: Italy 16.7%, Germany 14.5%, Russia 9.7%, Slovenia 6.8%, Austria 5.4%, China 5.3% [2006]

Currency (code): kuna [HRK]

Exchange rates: kuna per US dollar - 5.3735 [2007], 5.8625 [2006], 5.9473 [2005], 6.0358 [2004], 6.7035 [2003]

Airports: 68 [2007]

Railways: total: 2,726 km
standard gauge: 2,726 km 1.435-m gauge [1,199 km electrified] [2006]

Merchant marine: total: 75 ships [1000 GRT or over] 1,165,409 GRT/1,867,160 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 21, cargo 12, chemical tanker 3, passenger/cargo 28, petroleum tanker 7, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 3
foreign-owned: 2 [Bermuda 2]
registered in other countries: 36 [Bahamas 1, Belize 1, Liberia 5, Malta 12, Marshall Islands 4, Panama 6, St Vincent and The Grenadines 7] [2007]

Ports and terminals: Omisalj, Ploce, Rijeka, Sibenik, Vukovar [on Danube]