ID card* of Croatia...in a glance

- Surface: 56 530 km2.

- Capital: Zagreb (900 000 inhabitants).

- Population: 4,44 million inhabitants.

- principal Cities: Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Zadar, Dubrovnik.

- Rate of unemployment: 22,3 %

- Currency: kuna.

- Language: Croatian.

- Parliamentary system: parliamentary democracy since 2000.

- President of the Republic: Stjepan Mesic, which succeeded Franjo Tudjman in February 2000.

- Monthly Wages average Net: 420K in 2002.

- Political Formations: The HDZ (the Croatian democratic Community), left nationalist former president Franjo Tudjman, gained legislative November 2003, vis-a-vis with the SDP (Left social democrat) and with the HSLS (Left social Croatian liberal), the two principal members of the left coalition of center to the capacity.

- Prime Minister: Ivo Sanader