• Croatia (officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska) - capital is Zagreb) is a country at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and the Balkans. Its shape resembles that of a crescent or a horseshoe, which flanks its neighbours Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. To the north lie Slovenia and Hungary; Italy lies across the Adriatic Sea. Mainland territory is splited in two non-contiguous parts by the short coastline of Bosnia and Herzegovina around Neum.

• Its terrain is diverse, including: plains, lakes and rolling hills in the continental north and northeast (Central Croatia and Slavonia, part of the Pannonian Basin); densely wooded mountains in Lika and Gorski Kotar, part of the Dinaric Alps; rocky coastlines on the Adriatic Sea (Istria, Northern Seacoast and Dalmatia).

• The country is famous for its many national parks. Croatia has a mixture of climates. In the north and east it is continental, Mediterranean along the coast and a semi-highland and highland climate in the south-central region. Offshore Croatia consists of over one thousand islands varying in size.

• National Geographic Adventure Magazine named Croatia as Destination of the Year in 2006.

source: Wikipedia

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