Croatia political map!

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Below you can find the Croatia political map with 21 counties (zupanje). The counties are primary territorial subdivisions of the Republic of Croatia. In Croatian they are called upanije in plural and upanija in singular form.There is a total of 21 counties in the country. Each county has an assembly (upanijska skuptina) which is composed of representatives elected by popular vote, using party-list proportional representation, for four-year terms. The county assembly elects the executive county leadership, decides on the yearly budget, the county properties etc.

The leader of a county is a upan (sometimes translated as "prefect"), who has up to twelve deputies each called a doupan. The upan presides over the county’s executive government (upanijsko poglavarstvo), and represents the county in external affairs.

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Croatia political map and the CIA World Factbook is the best geographic resources about Croatia. The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO.

Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.

During the European uprisings of 1848, Croatians designed a flag based on that of Russia. In April 1941 the fascistic Ustasa used this flag, adding the checkered shield of Croatia. A communist star soon replaced the shield, but the current flag was adopted on Dec. 22, 1990. Atop the shield is a "crown" inlaid with historic coats of arms.