By Goran Cuk

Basic Facts
 Population – 4,553,000
 Capital – Zagreb
 GDP – $74.414 million
 GDP per capita - $18,000 (Ahead of EU
member states Romania, Bulgaria, Poland,
Lithuania, and above EU average)
 Croatia is set to join NATO April 2008 and
the European Union late 2008, early 2009. It
is currently in the UN Security Council.
 Croatia had 18 million tourists in 2007.
 Croatia was named “Destination of the

Year” in National Geographic in 2006

 6 “UNESCO World Heritage Sites” are

located in Croatia
 Marco Polo was born in Croatia
 Croatia has more than a thousand islands
 It also has the biggest bird reservation in Europe
 The smallest town in the world (Hum) is in Croatia, with
city walls, two streets, a church, and 23 inhabitants
 The pen, the tie and the parachute were invented by
Croatians
 PLIVA is the largest pharmaceutical company in Central
and Eastern Europe
 The oldest blind theatre, arboretum, insurance law,
manual about navigation, manual about book-keeping in
Europe was in Croatia
 The oldest maritime law in the world came from Croatia
 Three Nobel prize winners are from Croatia
 Nikola Tesla was born in
Croatia, one of the greatest
inventors of all time. He
invented AC electricity, the
radio, the tesla coil,
hydroelectric power, the
remote control, x-ray, robot,
the light bulb, among 300
other patents. Before he
died, he had ideas for
wireless transmission of
electricity, electric
submarine, death ray,
mechanical oscillator
(compresses the air until it is
a liquid), earthquake
machine, force field, anti-
gravity aircraft, time travel,
teleportation, and most
bizarre, a thought camera.
He declined numerous Nobel
prizes.
Zagreb
 Capital – Belgrade
 Population – 10,018,000
 GDP – $72 billion
 GDP per capita – $8,200
 Serbia lost over 1,200,000 soldiers in World War I, a third of
its population back then.
 8 UNESCO world heritage sites are in Serbia
 Serbia had a 18% increase in tourism last year.
 Serbia holds the 2 biggest concerts in Eastern Europe each
year, the EXIT festival, and Guca.
 Serbia is known for being a very big party country.
 Serbia grows a third of the worlds raspberries.
 Madeline Albright was saved by Serbs in World War 2. Serbs
also rescued 600 American pilots in World War 2.
 Albert Einstein was married to a Serbian.
 Serbia has had the highest economic improvement in the last 3
years than any other European Country.
 Serbia won the Eurovision Song contest last year and will host
it this year.
 Serbia has won the world cup more than any other country.