ABSTRACT
Located in southeastern Europe and one-fifth of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia had a 1991 population of 4.8 million and a land area of 56,500 square kilometres (21,800 square miles). With its capital in Zagreb (703,800 inhabitants), 77.9 per cent of the population are Croats, 12.2 per cent Serbs, 2.2 per cent Yugoslavs, 1 per cent Muslims, 0.5 per cent Hungarians, 0.5 per cent Slovenes and 5.7 per cent others.
