Croatia , clearly the Republic of Croatia, is a country at the basic of the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and the Balkans. Its basic is Zagreb. Croatia borders with Slovenia and Hungary to the north, Serbia to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the east, Montenegro to the far southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the south. Croatia is a applicant for associates of the European Union and is assured NATO associates allurement in April 2008. On October 17, 2007 Croatia became a non-permanent affiliate of the United Nations Security Council for the 2008-2009 term
Croatia is amid in South-Central Europe. Its appearance resembles that of a bow-shaped or a horseshoe, which flanks its neighbours Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. To the arctic lie Slovenia and Hungary; Italy lies beyond the Adriatic Sea. Its acreage area is breach in two non-contiguous genitalia by the abbreviate bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina about Neum.
Its area is diverse, including:
* plains, lakes and rolling hills in the continental arctic and northeast (Central Croatia and Slavonia, allotment of the Pannonian Basin);
* densely abounding mountains in Lika and Gorski Kotar, allotment of the Dinaric Alps;
* bouldered coastlines on the Adriatic Sea (Istria, Northern Seacoast and Dalmatia).
The country is acclaimed for its abounding civic parks. Croatia has a admixture of climates. In the arctic and east it is continental, Mediterranean forth the bank and a semi-highland and altitude altitude in the south-central region. Offshore Croatia consists of over one thousand islands capricious in size.