Croats

Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There is a notable Croat diaspora in western Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Croats are predominantly Catholic and their language is Croatian.

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Croatia is the nation state of the Croats, while in the adjacent Bosnia and Herzegovina they are one of the constitutive nations.

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Autochthonous Croat minorities exist in:

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• Vojvodina in northern Serbia
• Boka Kotorska in western Montenegro
• Burgenland in the eastern part of Austria
• bordering areas of western Hungary and Slovenia

The population numbers are reasonably accurate domestically: a bit under four million in Croatia and around 600,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Croatia: The Republic of Croatia is a crescent-shaped country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. In recent history, it was a republic in the SFR Yugoslavia, but it achieved independence in 1991. It is a candidate for membership of the European Union....