Map of Croatia

Croatia is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 45.2° N, 15.5° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Croatia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Croatia shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Croatia covers about 56,594 km² (21,851 sq mi). That makes it the 124th-largest country in the world by area and the 25th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 20 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 3,866,233, the 130th-largest in the world and the 27th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Croatia has an average population density of about 68 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 27th by population and 25th by area.

The seat of government is Zagreb, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is Croatian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Croatia carries the ISO country codes HR and HRV, dials on the international calling code +385 and uses the .hr internet domain.

Croatia shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Hungary (capital Budapest, about 9,539,502 people), Serbia (capital Belgrade, about 6,567,783 people), Bosnia and Herzegovina (capital Sarajevo, about 3,422,000 people), Slovenia (capital Ljubljana, about 2,130,638 people) and Montenegro (capital Podgorica, about 623,327 people).

By area, Croatia is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 45.2° N, 15.5° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Croatia within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Zagreb. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Croatia lies about 5,014 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Croatia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official language is Croatian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +385 and websites commonly use the .hr internet domain.

In short, Croatia is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Zagreb. Croatia has a population of about 3,866,233 and covers around 56,594 km² (21,851 sq mi), ranking it 130th in the world by population and 124th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Croatia.

The flag of Croatia is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and blue, with the coat of arms of Croatia superimposed in the center.

The flag of Croatia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.