Bosnia and Herzegovina

Area 51,129 square km, Pop.(1991) 4,365,639, (1998 est) 3,366,000 Capital city Sarajevo

Country of the western Balkan Peninsula in Europe. It is bordered on the north, west, and south by Croatia, on the east and southeast by the Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, and on the southwest by the Adriatic Sea along a narrow extension of the country. A narrow corridor gives Bosnia and Herzegovina outlet to the sea at Neum, on the Neretva Channel of the Adriatic Sea,the corridor splits Croatia along the Dalmatian coast about 40 km northwest of Dubrovnik. Bosnia consist of the broad central and northern triangular sector and includes Sarajevo. Hercegovina consist of the southernmost triangular sectro includes Mostar (the principal city). The land has often felt the influences of stronger regional powers that have vied for control over it, and these influences have helped to create Bosnia and Herzegovina’s characteristically rich etnich and cultural mix. Islam, Orhodox Christianity, and Roman Catholisticm are all present, the three faiths correspoding to three major ethnic groups: Bosniacs, serbs and Croats. After disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which Bosnia and Hercegovinia was constituent republic, She became independent country in 1992.

Source: Encyclopadia Britannica