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You're on the shores of the Dead Sea, at 410 meters below sea level: the lowest point on the globe - and the saltiest sea on earth. What's more, it's impossible to sink, because you can only float.

Croatia

Geography

  • Area: 56,538 square kilometers
  • 5,778 km of coastline and more than 60 inhabited islands
  • in the north is the Slavonic plain

State: Republic – independent since 1991 (formerly part of Yugoslavia)
Government: Pluralist democracy – includes a president of the republic, a prime minister and a parliament made up of 127 elected members

Capital: Zagreb

Currency: kuna

Languages spoken: Croatian

Main industries: Significant mining production; wine

Agriculture: Corn, wheat, lumber, fishing

 
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