Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina About this sound listen (help·info) (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine Serbian Cyrillic: Ôåäåðàöè¼à Áîñíå è Õåðöåãîâèíå) is one of the two political entities that compose the sovereign country of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the other entity is the Republika Srpska). The two entities are delineated by the Inter-Entity Boundary Line.
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is primarily inhabited by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats, which is why it is informally referred to as the Bosniak-Croat Federation. However, by decision of the Constitutional court in 2001, the Serbs were declared the third constituent ethnic group of the Federation. The same happened to Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in the Republika Srpska[clarification needed].
The Federation was created by the Washington accords signed on 18 March 1994, which established a Constituent assembly (Ustavotvorna skupština/Ustavotvorbeni Sabor). The Constituent assembly continued its work until October 1996.
The Federation now has its own capital, government, president, parliament, customs and police departments, postal system (in fact, two of them), and airline (BH Airlines). It used to have its own army, the Army of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, though along with the Army of the Republika Srpska it was fully integrated into Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, controlled by the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 6 June 2006.
[Banja Luka]
[Mostar]
[Sarajevo]
[Yahorina]
Bosnia and Herzegovina
country name:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
capital:
Sarajevo
area:
51,129.0 km²
population:
4,590,000
currency:
Marka (BAM)
languages:
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
neighbours:
Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
