Croatia Research Paper

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Croatia is a country with a lot of history and in order to make an adequate decision for our company we must first take a quick look at the recent history. Croatia has been in a hotspot for turmoil in the last hundred years. Consumed by wars, civil unrest, and political havoc. Heading into the 1900s Croatia did not even exist as it was officially part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the fall of the empire it join the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes becoming Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was ran on a royal dictatorship till it became the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945. The socialist party stayed in power till the 1970s when protests broke out demanding more freedom for the people and in 1990 the dream was realized when the country …show more content…

Croatia neighbors the countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia. It has a variety of topography as it has low plains in Central and Eastern Croatia and mountains in the east. Even though Croatia has mountain ranges, none of them reach above 6,000ft. Croatia itself is 65% mainland and 35% coastline. The land that boarders Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are low lands filled with plains, flat land, and forest (nearly 36% of Croatia is covered by forests). Land use of the mainland is used as: 26.09% arable land (land that is capable of producing crops), 2.27% permanent crops, and 71.65% used for other reasons. Croatia has quite a few resources for being a small country and these include: oil, coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, and hydropower. These resources are the main part of the economy and the trade for the country. The Croatian coast on the other hand is positioned between the Dinaric Alps in the east and the Adriatic Sea and has over 1,000 miles of shoreline. This shoreline, stretching from Slovenia in the north down to Montenegro in the south, contains thousands of small islands, islets, rocks and …show more content…

Croatia is in two climate areas: one being a Mediterranean climate and the other being a continental climate. The Mediterranean climate area is in western Croatia and it tends to have mild, wet winters and dry summers. This being ideal for the coastal resorts in the area. In central and eastern Croatia the climate is a continental climate which brings hot summers and cold winters, but neither being too extreme.
A positive feature of where Croatia is geographically located is that it is located so that it controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish Straits. This means that it is a center hub for major trade routes in and out of Europe to the east. This is a great advantage when it comes to Croatia’s involvement in the EU and its economic improvement. This is also a great thing for our company as it will allow us easy access to trade routes which means lower shipping costs for our

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