General Information

Capital:

Sarajevo 350,000 (1996 est.)

Area:

51,233 sq km (19,741 sq mi)

Form of government

Emerging democracy

GDP per capita

Purchasing power parity-$1,770 (1999 est.)

Population

Note: all data dealing with population is subject to considerable error because of the dislocations caused by military action and ethnic cleansing

Ethnic composition

Serb - 40%

Bosniak/Muslim - 38%

Croat - 22%

Note: the Croats claim they currently comprise only 17% of the total population

Official Language(s)

Croatian and Bosnian language and Latin alphabet in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Article 6 of the Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Serbian language of Iekavian and Ekavian dialect and the Cyrillic Alphabet (Article 7 of the Constitution of Republika Srpska)

Minority Language(s)

Data unavailable

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