Croatia

Croatia

Croatia ranks 31st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hungary, Romania, and Finland. Memorable people born in present day Croatia include Nikola Tesla, Josip Broz Tito, and Diocletian. Memorable people who died in Croatia include Diocletian, Franjo Tuđman, and Julius Nepos. Croatia has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe. Its coast lies entirely on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, with twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans 56,594 square kilometres, and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. Read more on Wikipedia