Croatia

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a crescent-shaped country at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Sea, Central Europe, and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. Croatia borders with Slovenia and Hungary to the north, Serbia to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the east, and Montenegro to the far southeast. In the northwest its territorial waters border Italy's, while its southern and western flanks border the Adriatic Sea. In recent history, it was a republic in the SFR Yugoslavia, but it achieved independence in 1991. Croatia is a member of United Nations, the European Union, NATO, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and the Council of Europe. Croatian is the official language throughout the whole country.