Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H; locally: Bosna i Hercegovina/????? ? ???????????) is a triangular mountainous country in the western Balkans with an estimated population of about 4,000,000 people. The country is the homeland of its three constitutional peoples; Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs, and is famous for its cultural and religious diversity. A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of ethnicity, is usually identified as a Bosnian.

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Balkans - Bosniaks - Croats - Serbs - Bosnian

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The country borders with Croatia in the west and Serbia and Montenegro in the east. It is virtually landlocked save for a small strip of land on the Adriatic sea, centered around the city of Neum. The capital of the country is Sarajevo, which is also it's largest city. Bosnia and Herzegovina themselves are historical geographic regions with no political status today.

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Croatia - Serbia and Montenegro - Adriatic sea - Neum - Sarajevo - Herzegovina

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Bosnia was formerly one of the six federal units constituting Yugoslavia.

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The republic gained its independence in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and, due to the Dayton Accords, is currently administered in a supervisory role by a High Representative selected by the UN Security Council. It is also decentralized and administratively divided into two entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska.

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Yugoslav wars - Dayton Accords - High Representative - UN Security Council - Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Republika Srpska

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