Surface and Population
The Croatian area is 56.691 square kilometers and has about 4.29 million inhabitants (census of 2011). Nearly 90% of the population is Croatian (most of them are Roman Catholic), and there are Serbs, Bosnians, Hungarians, Italians and many other minorities.
Croatia has an unusual form that differs from any other country of the world, which is the result of five centuries of the spread of the Ottoman (Turkish) empire towards Central Europe.