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Croatia Geography 2020

SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Croatia Geography 2020
SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on January 27, 2020

Location:
Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia

Geographic coordinates:
45 10 N, 15 30 E

Map references:
Europe

Area:
total: 56,594 sq km
[see also: Area - total country ranks ]
land: 55,974 sq km
[see also: Area - land country ranks ]
water: 620 sq km
[see also: Area - water country ranks ]
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data): 128

Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than West Virginia


Area comparison map:Area comparison map

slightly smaller than West Virginia

Land boundaries:
total: 2,237 km
[see also: Land boundaries - total country ranks ]
border countries (5): Bosnia and Herzegovina 956 km, Hungary 348 km, Montenegro 19 km, Serbia 314 km, Slovenia 600 km

Coastline:
5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)
[see also: Coastline country ranks ]

Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
[see also: Maritime claims - territorial sea country ranks ]
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
[see also: Maritime claims - continental shelf country ranks ]

Climate:
Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast
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Terrain:
geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands

Elevation:
mean elevation: 331 m
[see also: Elevation - mean elevation country ranks ]
lowest point: Adriatic Sea 0 m
highest point: Dinara 1,831 m

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

Land use:
agricultural land: 23.7% (2011 est.)
[see also: Land use - agricultural land country ranks ]
arable land: 16% (2011 est.)
[see also: Land use - arable land country ranks ]
permanent crops: 1.5% (2011 est.)
[see also: Land use - permanent crops country ranks ]
permanent pasture: 6.2% (2011 est.)
[see also: Land use - permanent pasture country ranks ]
forest: 34.4% (2011 est.)
[see also: Land use - forest country ranks ]
other: 41.9% (2011 est.)
[see also: Land use country ranks ]

Irrigated land:
240 sq km (2012)
[see also: Irrigated land country ranks ]

Population distribution:
more of the population lives in the northern half of the country, with approximately a quarter of the populace residing in and around the capital of Zagreb; many of the islands are sparsely populated

Natural hazards:
destructive earthquakes

Environment - current issues:
air pollution improving but still a concern in urban settings and in emissions arriving from neighboring countries; surface water pollution in the Danube River Basin

Environment - international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Geography - note:
controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish Straits; most Adriatic Sea islands lie off the coast of Croatia - some 1,200 islands, islets, ridges, and rocks


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Croatia on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Croatia Geography 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Croatia Geography 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may have the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.






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