Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country in Southeast Europe, with its capital at Sarajevo, and is home to roughly 3.2M people.
Its official languages are Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian; the currency in circulation is Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (KM); people from here are called Bosnian, Herzegovinian.
- »The Stari Most bridge at Mostar stood from 1566 until it was shelled in 1993; it was rebuilt using the original methods and stone.
Bosnia and Herzegovina touches three neighbours: Croatia to the northwest, Montenegro to the southeast and Serbia to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Sarajevo was where the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered the First World War, and it endured the longest siege of a capital city in modern history, from 1992 to 1996.
51,640 km² (19,938 sq mi), 126th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Costa Rica.
Population 3,164,253, 134th of 198 on file. That averages 61 per km² (159 per sq mi).
Deliberately abstract. Imposed in 1998 after the war, it avoids any symbol tied to Bosniaks, Croats or Serbs, the triangle nods to the country's shape and its three peoples, the stars to Europe.