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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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BOSNIA Bosnia and Herzegovina

Capital Sarajevo
Largest City Sarajevo,Federacija B...
Land Area 19,767 mi2

Population

  • Total 3,770,000
  • Density 191.0 people/mi2
  • Growth -0.0615% per year
  • Children 14.48%
  • Adult 70.72%
  • Elderly 14.8%

Bordering Countries
Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

* Statistics by Wolfram|Alpha. "Christianity" is used in the statistical sense and includes Catholics, Protestants, and true Christians.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for 16 miles of Adriatic Sea coastline, centered on the town of Neum. The interior of the country is mountainous centrally and to the south, hilly in the northwest, and flatland in the northeast. Inland is the larger geographic region with a moderate continental climate, marked by hot summers and cold, snowy winters. The southern tip of the country has a Mediterranean climate and plane topography.

The country is home to three ethnic groups, or so-called "constituent people", a term unique for Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosniaks are the largest population group of the three, with Serbs in second and Croats in third. Regardless of ethnicity, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina is often identified in English as either Bosnian or Herzegovinian. The terms Herzegovinian and Bosnian are maintained as a regional rather than ethnic distinction and Herzegovina has no precisely defined borders of its own.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a parliamentary republic, which has a bicameral legislature and a three-member Presidency comprised of a member of each major ethnic group. However, the central government's power is highly limited, as the country is largely decentralized and comprises two autonomous entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, with a third region, the Br?ko District, governed under local government.

Formerly one of the six federal units constituting the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina gained its independence during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Bosnia and Herzegovina can be described as a parliamentary democracy that is transforming its economy into a market-oriented system, and it is a potential candidate for membership in the European Union and has been a candidate for NATO membership since April 2010, when it received a Membership Action Plan at the summit in Tallinn. Additionally, the nation has been a member of the Council of Europe since 24 April 2002 and a founding member of the Mediterranean Union upon its establishment on 13 July 2008.


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