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| Official languages | Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian | ||||
| Capital | Sarajevo | ||||
| Area - Total - % water | 26,110 km˛ n/a | ||||
| Population - Total ( 2002) - Density | 2,318,972 88/km˛ | ||||
| Ethnic groups ( 2002) | Bosniaks: 72,9% Croats: 21,8% Serbs: 4,4% and others: 1,0% | ||||
| PresidentPresident is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides, who sits in leadership (from Latin prae "before" + sedere "to sit"). Originally, the term usually referr | Niko Lozancic | ||||
| AnthemFor the novel by Ayn Rand, see Anthem (novel). An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. The term has evolved to mean a song of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a certain group of people, as in the | none | ||||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | UTC +1 | ||||
| CurrencyFor exchange rates, see here. A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and services. It is a form of money, where money is defined as a medium of exchange rather than e. a store of value. A currency zone is a country or region | Convertible MarkThe convertible mark or konvertibilna marka in Bosnian is the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established as such by the 1995 Dayton Agreement. The marka in the name refers to the Deutsche Mark, the currency to which it was pegged until 2002 at | ||||
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, (Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine), informally referred to as the Muslim-Croat Federation, is the larger of the two constituent, de facto autonomous Entities of Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. Its capital is Sarajevo and it was formerly one of the six federal units constituting Yugoslavia. The republic gained its independence in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and due to the and it is primarily inhabited by BosniaksBosniaks Total population: 2. 4 million (est. Significant populations in: Bosnia 1,800,000 Serbia 136,000 Montenegro 63,000 Croatia 40,000 Slovenia 32,500 Macedonia 17,000 USA 130,000 Elsewhere in the world: XXXX Language Bosnian language Religion Predomi (Bosnian Muslims) and Bosnian Croats. 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 Croats in the Republika Srpska.
The Federation was created by the Washington accords signed on March 18, 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, flag and coat of arms, president, parliament, customs and police departments, postal system (in fact, two of them), and airline ( Air Bosna). It has its own army, the Vojska Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine, though it is under the control of the state-level Bosnia-Herzegovina Ministry of Defense, as is the Vojska Republike Srpske.