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Geography

Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia

Geographic coordinates: 45 10 N, 15 30 E

Area: total: 56,542 sq km; land: 56,414 sq km; water: 128 sq km

Land boundaries: total: 2,028 km; border countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina 932 km, Hungary 329 km, Yugoslavia 266 km, Slovenia 501 km

Coastline: 5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)

Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation; territorial sea: 12 NM

Elevation extremes: lowest point: Adriatic Sea 0 m; highest point: Dinara 1,830 m

Natural resources: oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower

Land use: arable land: 21%; permanent crops: 2%; permanent pastures: 20%; forests and woodland: 38%; other: 19% (1993 est.)

Irrigated land: 30 sq km (1993 est.)

Geography - note: controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish Straits