Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina
in Washington, United States:
2109 E Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
Phone: (202) 337-1500
Fax: (202) 337-1502
URL: http://www.bhembassy.org/main.htm
URL: Embassy
of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Permanent
Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United
Nations in New York - WEB-site
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country
on the Balkan peninsula of southern Europe with an area of 51,129
km² (19,741 sq. miles), and an estimated population of around four
million people. It is known in the country's official languages
as Bosna i Hercegovina or Босна и Херцеговина (in
the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets respectively), although the name
is commonly abbreviated to Bosnia, BiH or БиХ.
The country is a homeland to three ethnic "constituent
peoples": Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. Regardless of ethnicity,
a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina is usually identified in English
as a Bosnian.
Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south,
Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina
is almost entirely landlocked, except for 26 km of the Adriatic
Sea coastline, centered around the town of Neum. The interior of
the country is heavily mountainous and divided by various rivers,
most of which are nonnavigable. The nation's capital and largest
city is Sarajevo.
Formerly one of the six federal units constituting
the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
gained its independence during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. As
a result of the Dayton Accords it is currently administered in a
supervisory role by a High Representative selected by the UN Security
Council. The country is decentralized and is administratively divided
into two "entities", the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
and the Republika Srpska. More recently the country has acquired
many central institutions (such as ministry of defense, state court
etc.) as it takes the jurisdiction back from its entities.
Bosnia itself is the chief geographic region of
the modern state, with a moderate continental climate, consisting
of hot summers and cold snowy winters. Herzegovina is the southern
tip of the country, known for its starkly Mediterranean climate
and relief. It was included first as the official name of the then
Ottoman province official name in the mid-nineteenth century.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
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