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Geography, demographics, economy, history, and government
- National Capital City: Zagreb
- Form of government: Parliamentary democracy: elected President
(5 years), elected bicameral parliament (Sabor) (4 years)
- Population: 4,422,248 (July 2003 est.)
- Total area: 56,542 sq. km
- Languages: Croatian (96%)
- Religions: Roman Catholic (88%), Eastern Orthodox (4%)
- Per capita GDP: $9,800 p.a. (2002 est.)
- Exports: $4.9bn (2002); transport equipment, textiles, chemicals,
foodstuffs, fuels
- Literacy: 98% (2003 est.)
- Life expectancy: 74.4 years (78.2f, 70.8m)
Sources
- CIA World Factbook
| country data - Croatia
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - Croatia - national anthem, flag, map, people, economy, geography, government, defence, news
and weather
- Nation by Nation | country data - Croatia - facts, government, geography, history, human rights, people
- World Skip | country data - Croatia
- Social development:
- OneWorld.net | country database - Croatia - news articles selected from around the world
- Norwegian Refugee Council | Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) database - Croatia
- U.S. Refugee Committee | World Refugee Survey country report - Croatia
- Human rights:
- International Lesbian and Gay Association
| Country Survey - Croatia
| - information for those working to promote lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) rights
- Governance:
- Governments on the WWW - Croatia - comprehensive database of governmental institutions - parliaments, ministries, offices,
law courts, embassies, etc
- CIA Library | Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members
| - Croatia
- Political Resources
| - Croatia
- World Audit.org | national statistics and reports - Croatia - national statistics and reports from Freedom House, Transparency
International, Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists and others
- ElectionWorld.org | election results in Croatia
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(Click on map to go to surrounding locations)
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Portals, indexes, guides, searchers, phone directories
- Home Page of the Republic of Croatia - facts,
maps, directory, and search engine
- CroLinks - index of Croatian links
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Executive, legislature, judiciary, ministries, departments, agencies, and commissions
- Governments on the WWW - Croatia - comprehensive database of governmental institutions - parliaments, ministries, offices,
law courts, embassies, etc
- Government of the Republic of Croatia
(Vlada Republike Hrvatske)
- Executive
- Office of the President
of the Republic of Croatia (Ured predsjednika)
- Legislature
- Croatian Paliament (Hrvatski
Sabor)
- Ministries & Departments
- Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry (Ministarstvo Poljoprivrede i Sumarstva)
- Ministry of Culture
(Ministarstvo Kulture)
- Ministry of Defence (Ministarstvo
Obrane)
- Ministry of Environmental
Protection, Physical Planning and Construction (Ministarstvo
Zastite Okolisa i Prostornog Uredjenja)
- Ministry of European Integration
(Ministarstvo Europskih Integracija)
- Ministry of the Family, Veterans'
Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity (Ministarstvo Obitelji,
Branitelja i MedUgeneracijske Solidarnosti)
- Ministry of Finance (Ministarstvo
Financija)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministarstvo
Vanjskih Poslova)
- Ministry of Health (Ministarstvo
Zdravstva)
- Ministry of Interior Affairs
(Ministarstvo Unutarnjih Poslova)
- Ministry of Justice
(Ministarstva Pravosuda)
- Ministry of the Sea, Tourism,
Transport and Development (Ministarstvo Mora, Turizma, Prometa
i Veza)
- Ministry of Science, Education
and Sports (Ministarstvo Znanosti, Obrazovanja i Sporta)
- Ministry of Science and Technology
(Ministarstvo Znanosti i Tehnologije)
- Judiciary
- Constitutional Court of the
Republic of Croatia (Ustavni sud Republike Hrvatske)
- Supreme Court of the Republic
of Croatia (Vrhovni Sud Republike Hrvatske)
- Military
- Agencies & Bureaus
- National Security Office (Ured za Nacionalnu Sigurnost)
- Croatian Information and
Documentation Referral Agency (HIDRA) (Hrvatske informacijsko-dokumentacijske
referalne agencije) - expert service of the Government of the
Republic of Croatia and the central information and documentation
portal for official information and documents of public domain
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Human rights & civil liberties, humanitarian aid, political parties, activism, environment, and labour
- Demokratski Savez Hrvata U Vojvodini (Democratic Union of Croatia)
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Education, health & public safety, religion, women, children & youth, and associations & societies
- Arts Academy University of
Split (UMAS) (Umjetnicka Akademija Sveucalista u Split)
- Croatian Academy of Sciences
and Arts (HAZU) (Hrvatska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti)
- Croatian Bar Association
(Hrvatska odvjetnicka komora) (Zagreb) - professional association
of attorneys who have their own practices and work for themselves
and on their own account
- Croation Physical Society (Hrvatsko Fizikalno Drustvo)
- National and University Library
(Nacionalna i Sveucilisna Kniznica) (Zagreb)
- Slavonski Brod -
City Guide
- Teacher Education Academy
Zagreb (UAZG) (Uciteljska akademija u Zagrebu)
- Higher Education
- International Centre of Croatian
Universities (ICCU) (Dubrovnik) - public academic institution
for international scientific programmes and postgraduate studies
- Josip Juraj Strossmayer University
of Osijek (Sveuciliate J.J. Strossmayera u Osijek)
- Polytechnic of Dubrovnik
(Veleuciliste u Dubrovniku)
- Polytechnic of Karlovac
(Veleuciliste u Karlovcu)
- Polytechnic of Split
(Veleucilište u Splitu)
- Polytechnic of Rejika
(Veleucilište u Rijeci)
- Polytechnic of Zagreb (Tehnicko
Veleucilište u Zagrebu)
- University of Rejika
(Sveucilište u Rijeci)
- University of Split (Sveucilište u
Splitu)
- University of Zadar (Sveucilište
u Zadru)
- University of Zagreb
(Sveucilište u Zagrebu)
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Ethnicity, language, the arts, history & heritage, performance, costume, and literature
- Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb
(Akademija Likovnih Umjetnosti u Zagrebu)
- Croatian Academy of Sciences
and Arts (HAZU) (Hrvatska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti)
- Croatian Cultural Association
(HSK) (Hrvatski Sabor Hulture) - organisation of cultural
and artistic groups, including choirs, orchestras, folk and
dance ensembles, writers, etc
- Culturelink Network
- network of networks for research and cooperation in cultural
development
- PONTES European Cultural
Network - aims to improve communication among young writers,
critics, theoreticians and publishers in Europe in order to
help build a new Europe and overcome the lack of communication
between former Western and Eastern Europe
- Art & Art Galleries
- Croatian Association of Art
Galleries (HUG) (Hrvatska udruga galerista)
- Agram Gallery
(Zagreb) - art gallery and antiques shop
- Galerija ALM (Zagreb) -
promotes and trades in art of both Croatian and foreign
artists
- Galerija Beck
(Zagreb)
- Galerija
Fonticus (Groznjan)
- Galerija Tinn
(Jastrebarsko)
- Gallery of Fine
Arts (Galerija Likovnih Umjetnosti) (Osijek)
- MMI Gallery (Porec)
- home of Croatian artist Mario Santrac
- Museum of Contemporary Art
(Muzej suvremene umjetnosti) (Zagreb)
- Preromanesque
Art of Croatia - monuments from early medieval times, dating
from Late Antiquity to the Romanesque period, along the
coastal regions of Croatia
- Project Adriatic
- internet-wired multimedia sailing art project using digital
still and video cameras, sound recording devices, and notebook
computersn the croatian adriatic sea
- Festivals
- Ex Urban Festival
(exUF) - project aimed at infiltrating art into urban
life and intensifing the communication between inhabitants
and their city and its infrastructure
- Festival of India
(Festival Indije) (Zagreb) - held in October
- Histria Festival
- music and dance
- International
Puppet Festival (PIF) (Puptetara Internacia Festivalo) (Zagreb)
- celebration of largely professional puppettheatre groups
- International
Small Scenes Theatre Festival (Medunarodni Festival Malih
Scena) (Rijeka) - departing somewhat from its original idea of strictly adhering to the concept of presenting
exclusively 'small scene' shows
- Zagreb
Fashion Week (Hrvatski Tjedan Mode) - held in March of each
year
- Film
- Croatian Film Clubs' Association
(Hrvatski Filmski Savez) (Zagreb)
- FILM.HR - Croatian film
and movie news and reviews
- Zagreb Film - film
production company
- History & Heritage
- Museum Documentation Center
(MDC) (Muzejski Dokumentacijski Centar) (Zagreb) - central
institution for promotion of the museum activities and the
communication centre of the Croatian museum network
- Archeological Museum of
Istria (Arheoloski muzej Istre) (Pula) - collections
from archaeological sites throughout Istria including prehistoric
caves, hill-forts and necropolises, Roman commercial complexes,
buildings and cemeteries and sacral object dating from the Early
Christian and Byzantine periods, as well as those dating back
to the period of barbarian attacks and settlement of the Slav
population in Istria
- Archeological
Museum of Split (Arheoloski muzej Split) - oldest museum
institution in Croatia, holding some 150,000 artifacts ranging
in date from prehistoric times, the period of Greek colonization
of the Adriatic, the Roman and Early Christian periods to the
early Middle Ages and the period of Croatian popular rulers
- Cakovec Museum of Medimurje (Muzej
Medjimurja Cakovec) - collection includes 18,993 exhibits originating
from Medimurje and covering archaeology, cultural history, history,
ethnography and fine arts
- Dubrovnik Museums
(Dubrovacki muzeji) - archeological museum, cultural museum,
Marin Drzic House, modern history museum, and etnographic museum
- Ivan Mestovic Foundation
(Fundacija Ivana Meštrovica) (Zagreb) - aims to protect and
maintain the buildings and works donated by Ivan Mestovic to
the Republic of Croatia, to present them appropriately to the
public, and to guarantee a professional treatment of the holdings
- Kastela Native Museum
(Zavicajni Muzej Kastela)
- Makarska Municipal
Musem (Gradski Muzej Makarska) - independent cultural
institution
- Moslavina Museum
(Muzej Moslavine) (Kutina) - deals with the collection, cataloguing,
presentation and publication of the cultural and historical
heritage in the broader region of Moslavina and western Slavonia
- Peasants’ Revolt Museum
(Muzej seljackih buna ) (Gornja Stubica) - commemorates the
1573 Peasants' Revolt
- Rejika Natural History
Museum (Prirodoslovnog Muzeja u Rijeci)
- Staro Selo Museum
(Muzej "Staro selo") - open-air museum encompassing
the old village centre of Kumrovec
- Vela Spila - archaeological
site located near the western end of the island of Korcula,
on the outskirts of the town of Vela Luka
- Zagreb Municipal Museum
(Muzej Grada Zagreba)
- Performing Arts
- Academy of Dramatic Art (ADU)
(Akademija Dramske Umjenosti) (Zagreb)
- Zagreb-Markovac
- folklore ensemble, with an overview of croatian folk dances,
music and customs
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Associations, competitions, leisure, and hobbies
- Adriatic Nautical Academy (ANA)
(Academia Navalis Adriatica) (Opatija) - school of sailing
and nautical skills
- Croatian Football Federation (HNS)
(Hrvatski nogometni savez)
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Guides & advice, accommodation, attractions, transport, agents, and organisers
- Croatian National Tourist Board (Hrvatska
Turisticka Zajednica) - destinations, accommodation, events,
and information about the country
- HotelsCroatia.com
- Croatia Airlines
- international carrier
- Croatian Railways (Hvratske
zeljeznice)
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Statistics, government, economy, geography, demography, and society
- Croatian Bureau of Statistics (DZS) (Državni
zavod za statistiku)
- Croation Institute of Viticulture
and Enology (Hrvatski zavod za vinogradarstvo i vinarstvo)
(Zagreb)
- Croatian Livestock Center
(Hrvatski stocarski centar)
- Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI) (Institut
Ruder Boškovic) (Zagreb) - research centre in sciences and science
applications including experimental and theoretical physics,
chemistry and physics of materials, organic and physical chemistry,
biochemistry, molecular biology and medicine, environmental
and marine research and computer science and electronics
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Newspapers & magazines, journals, television & radio, publishing, and entertainment
- Croatia Today (EIN News Services)
- Croatian Radio and Television
(HRT) (Hrvatska Radiotelevizija) (Zagreb) - public corporation,
owned by the Republic of Croatia, whose role is to support
the public and satisfy public interest through information and
communication
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Resourcing, manufacturing, distribution, trade, and regulation of goods and services
- Croatian Chamber of Economy (Hrvatska gospodarska
komora) (Zagreb) - professional institution that speaks for
and promotes Croatian economic interests in Croatia and abroad,
offering a wide variety of services, from business information
about companies, regulations and laws in the field of economics,
to business education and professional specialisation, quality
improvement and environmental protection
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- Banking, investment, insurance, stockmarkets, and market regulation
- Hrvatska Narodna Bankah (Central Bank of Croatia)
- Croatian Securities Commission
(Komisija za vrijednosne papire)
- Central Securities Depository
(Središnja depozitarna agencija) - also acts as the Settlement
Agency of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) and the Varaždin Stock
Exchange (VSE), and the National Numbering Agency that allocates
ISIN & CFI codes for securities issued in Croatia
- Stock Exchanges
- Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE)
(Zagrebacka Burza)
- Varaždin Stock Exchange (VSE)
(Varaždinska burza) (Varaždin)
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