Croatia - Republic of Croatia

WOI - missions teams in Croatia

geography
. 56,438 sq.km.
. Crescent-shaped country between the Danube River and Adriatic Sea.
. The land is almost bisected by Bosnia.

population
2000    4,472,600
2010    4,402,743
2025    4,193,413

people
Slavic 94.5%
Romance 3.1%
Other 2.4%

literacy 97%

Official language: Croatian - closely related to Serbian but written in Latin rather than Cyrillic script.

Religions Christian Muslim Non-Religious Jewish Christians Protestant Independant Catholic Orthodox Marginal Unaffilliated Trans. Bloc Groupings Evangelical Charismatic Pentacostal

Population % 94.43 3.00 2.52 0.05 Denon / Affil % 11 / 0.89 2 / 0.25 1 / 87.20 1 / 5.59 2 / 20.26 - / 0.24 pop % 0.5 2.7 0.1

Over 50% of the population is culturally Muslim, but superstition and folk Islam are strong.


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