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General Information Area: 56,542 sq km (21,831 sq miles). Population: 4,554,000 (1999). Population Density: 80.5 per sq km. Capital: Zagreb. Population: 706,770 (1991). GEOGRAPHY: Croatia stretches along the Adriatic coast (narrowing north–south; the major ports being Rijeka, Pula, Zadar, Sibenik, Split and Dubrovnik) with a larger inland area (running west–east from Zagreb to the border with Serbia, Yugoslavia). The northern two-thirds of this border are formed by the River Danube. The country borders Slovenia and Hungary to the north, Yugoslavia to the east and Bosnia-Herzegovina (southeast from Zagreb; northeast from the Adriatic coastline). Government: Republic. Independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia proclaimed in 1991. Head of State: President Stjepan Mesic since 2000. Head of Government: Prime Minister Ivica Racan since 2000. Language: Croat, written in the Latin alphabet. Religion: Roman Catholic Croats (76.5 per cent of the total population) and Eastern Orthodox Serbs (11 per cent), as well as small communities of Protestants, Jews and Muslims. Time: GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 from last Saturday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October). Electricity: 220 volts AC, 50Hz. Communications:   Telephone IDD is available. Country code: 385. Outgoing international code: 00. Telephone booths are operated by phonecards. Mobile telephone GSM 900 network covers the whole country. Network operators include CRONET (website: www.ht.hr/en/index). Fax Services are widely available. Internet The main ISP is Hrvatske Telekomunikacije (website: www.tel.hr). Internet cafes can be found in Zagreb and other main towns. Press There are no English-language newspapers at present. The main local newspapers are Vecernji List (Zagreb), Slobodna Dalmacija (Split) and Novi List (Rijeka). BBC World Service and Voice of America frequencies: From time to time these change. BBC (website: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice): MHz 17.64 12.10 9.410 6.195 Voice of America (website: www.voa.gov): MHz 15.21 11.82 9.760 1.197 From www.columbusguides.com, Copyright © 2004 Highbury Columbus Travel Publishing Terms and Conditions apply.