Croatia

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, bordering Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro and sharing a maritime border with Italy. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb, and the country is composed of twenty counties spanning 56,594 square kilometres. Croats arrived in the region in the sixth century, Croatia was granted independence in 878, became a kingdom in 925, entered a union with Hungary in 1102, later joined the Habsburg monarchy and in 1918 merged into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and fought the War of Independence until 1995. Modern Croatia is a representative democracy with a prime minister, a president and a unicameral parliament, with a multi-party system, and it belongs to the European Union, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and NATO.