The territory covers 56, square kilometres, consisting of 56, square kilometres of land and square kilometres of water. Elevation ranges from the mountains of the Dinaric Alps with the highest point of the Dinara peak at 1, metres near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the south to the shore of the Adriatic Sea which makes up its entire southwest border.
Insular Croatia consists of over a thousand islands and islets varying in size, 48 of which are permanently inhabited. The largest islands are Cres and Krk , each of them having an area of around square kilometres. The hilly north-western parts of Hrvatsko Zagorje and the flat plains of Slavonia in the east which is part of the Pannonian Basin are traversed by major rivers such as Dunav , Drava , Kupa , and Sava. The central and southern regions near the Adriatic coastline and islands consist of low mountains and forested highlands.
As independent Croatia has been present on the contemporary international political stage for a little over two decades, since its independence from the Yugoslav Federation. Most of Croatia has a moderately warm and rainy continental climate. The coldest parts of the country are mountain areas of Lika and Gorski Kotar , where snowy forested climate is found at elevations above 1, metres.
The warmest areas of Croatia are at the Adriatic coast. Mean annual precipitation ranges between millimetres and 3, millimetres depending on geographic region and prevailing climate type. The maximum precipitation levels are observed on the Dinara mountain range and in Gorski kotar. Population density is The overall life expectancy in Croatia at birth was The total fertility rate of 1.
According to the United Nations report, Croatia is inhabited mostly by Croats Ethnic minority groups are Serbs 4. There were people granted international protection and people granted subsidiary protection at the end of Majority of persons granted international protection are Syrian and Iraqi nationals. At the same time there were asylum seekers in Croatia placed in reception centres. Most of the asylum seekers come from Afghanistan , Pakistan , Syria , Turkey and Algeria Foreigners with granted international protection mostly live in capital city Zagreb.
