What every visitor should know about Croatia:
- Money
- The currency is the Croatian kuna (HRK). 1 HRK is worth about US$0.20, or €0.14.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 5 out of 5 (Very safe)
Areas of concern:
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Capital
- Zagreb
- Tap water
- Safe in cities, but bottled water is advisable in rural areas.
Croatia facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 4,489,409
- Language
- Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German)
- Ethnicity
- Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma)
Economy
- GDP
- US$16,900 (per capita)
- Income equality
- Very high