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Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
General information
Common nameFederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local nameFederacija Bosne i Hercegovine Федерација Босне и Херцеговине
NameFederacija Bosne i Hercegovine Федерација Босне и Херцеговине
CapitalSarajevo
Largest citySarajevo
Official languagesBosnian, Croatian and Serbian
Ethnic groupsBosniaks: 70%
Croats: 28%
Serbs: 1% (2002)
Government
GovernmentParliamentary system
PresidentBorjana Krišto
Prime MinisterMustafa Mujezinović
Entity of Bosnia and HerzegovinaEntity of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Formed18 March 1994
Recognized in Bosnia and Herzegovina constitution14 December 1995
Geography
Total Area10085 sq mi (26120.2 km2)
Water %N/A
Demography
Population Est.2327318
Population census2,444,6652 (1996)
Density (pop.)117.3/km2 (303.86/sq mi)
Economy
Other information
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)
Time zoneCET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)CEST (UTC+2)
Drives on theright

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The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine Serbian Cyrillic: Федерација Босне и Херцеговине) 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 (with the Bosnian Serbs as the third constituency of the entity).

The Federation was created by the Washington accords signed on 18 March 1994, which established a constituent assembly that 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.


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