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title: "Croatia — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Croatia: capital Zagreb, area 56,594 km², population 3,876,200 (2025), currency Euro. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/croatia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Croatia

**Croatia: Capital Zagreb**

56,594 km² · 3,876,200 people (2025) · Euro

The Adriatic coast is about 1,780 km long as the crow flies but roughly 6,000 km including the 1,200-odd islands, islets and reefs, of which about fifty are inhabited. Plitvice is sixteen terraced lakes linked by waterfalls, dammed by travertine that the water itself deposits and which is still growing about a centimetre a year.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Zagreb
- **Area:** 56,594 km² — 21,851 sq mi
- **Population:** 3,876,200 (2025)
- **Density:** 68.5 people per km²
- **Currency:** Euro (EUR, €)
- **Official language:** Croatian
- **Time zone:** UTC+01:00
- **Calling code:** +385
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** HR · HRV
- **Continent:** Europe

## How it compares

- **By area:** 125 of 200
- **By population:** 131 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Latvia | 64,589 | 1,847,785 |
| Togo | 56,785 | 8,591,626 |
| Croatia ← | 56,594 | 3,876,200 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51,197 | 3,140,095 |
| Costa Rica | 51,100 | 5,152,950 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Croatia?

Zagreb

### What currency does Croatia use?

The Euro (EUR).

### How big is Croatia?

56,594 km², or 21,851 square miles — 125 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Croatia drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Latvia](https://atoneplace.net/country/latvia/)
- [Togo](https://atoneplace.net/country/togo/)
- [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://atoneplace.net/country/bosnia-and-herzegovina/)
- [Costa Rica](https://atoneplace.net/country/costa-rica/)
- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
- [Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country/germany/)
- [United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-kingdom/)
- [France](https://atoneplace.net/country/france/)
- [Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country/italy/)
- [Spain](https://atoneplace.net/country/spain/)
- [Ukraine](https://atoneplace.net/country/ukraine/)
- [Poland](https://atoneplace.net/country/poland/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]