Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Information about Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine
Федерација Босне и Херцеговин?
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Location of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Federation (blue) within Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Brčko District (green) belongs to both entities.2
Capital
(and )
Sarajevo
Official languagesBosnian, Croatian and Serbian
Ethnic groups (2002)Bosniaks: 70%
Croats: 28%
Serbs: 1.4%
Others: 0.6%
GovernmentFederation
 - PresidentBorjana Krišto
 - Prime MinisterNedžad Branković
Entity of Bosnia and HerzegovinaEntity of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
 - Formed18 March 1994 
 - Recognized in BiH constitution14 December 1995 
 - Water (%)N/A
Population
 - 2007 estimate3,064,413 
 - 1996 census2,444,6653 
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)
Time zoneCET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST)CEST (UTC+2)
1The flag and the coat of arms of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina have been deemed unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and were due to be replaced by September 2006.[1]
Počitelj - Old Turkish village near Mostar. Image:StariMost2005.PNG

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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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Sarajevo

A view of Sarajevo in April 2007.

Flag
Seal
Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)
Coordinates:
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Central South Slavic
languages and dialects
(Central South Slavic diasystem)

Bosnian Bunjevac
Burgenland Croatian Croatian
Montenegrin Našinski Serbian Serbo-Croatian
Šokac
Romano-Serbian Slavoserbian
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Official status
Official language of:
Burgenland (Austria)
Caraşova in Caraş-Severin County (Romania)
 Croatia
Molise (Italy)
Vojvodina (Serbia)
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Serbian}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  Serbia

 Republic of Macedonia (in some municipalities)
Regulated by: Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1: sr
ISO 639-2: scc (B)
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ethnic group or ethnicity is a population of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.[1] Ethnicity is also defined from the recognition by others as a distinct group[2]
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Bosniaks or Bosniacs[1] (Bosnian: Bošnjaci, IPA: [bɔ'ʃɲaːt͡si]
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Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a South Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There is a notable Croat diaspora in western Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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Serbs are one of the three constitutive nations of Bosnia-Herzegovina, predominantly concentrated in the Republika Srpska, although many also live in the other entity, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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federation (Latin: foedus, covenant) is a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central ("federal") government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states is typically constitutionally entrenched and may
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President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, trade unions, universities, and countries. Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides , who sits in leadership (from Latin prae- "before" + sedere "to sit"; giving the term
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A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina


  • Dayton Agreement
  • Peace Implementation Council
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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina


  • Dayton Agreement
  • Peace Implementation Council
  • High Representative:

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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred"). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". For example, 45 % (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to 45 / 100, or 0.45.
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population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the
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currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and/or services. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value. A currency is the dominant medium of exchange.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina konvertibilna marka
konvertibilna marka (Bosnian) (Croatian)
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ISO 4217 is the international standard describing three letter codes (also known as the currency code) to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC (see also Greenwich Mean Time).
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Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in most European and some North African countries.

Its time offset is UTC+1. During daylight saving time CEST is used instead (UTC+2).
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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precision atomic time standard. UTC has uniform seconds defined by International Atomic Time (TAI), with leap seconds announced at irregular intervals to compensate for the earth's slowing rotation and other discrepancies.
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Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less.
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Central European Summer Time (CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in most European and some North African countries. During the winter, Central European Time (UTC+1) is used.
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