Croats - Locations

Locations

Croatia is the nation state of the Croats, while in the adjacent Bosnia and Herzegovina they are one of the three constituent peoples alongside Bosniaks and Serbs.

Native Croat minorities exist in or among:

• Vojvodina, the northern autonomous province of Serbia, where the Croatian language is official (along with five other languages); the vast majority of the Šokci consider themselves Croats, as well as many Bunjevci (the latter, as well as other nationalities, settled the vast, abandoned area after the Ottoman retreat; this Croat subgroup originates from the south, mostly from the region of Bačka).
• The Šokci and Bunjevci communities in Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary.
• Croats are a recognized people in Montenegro, where the Croatian language is in use; they mostly live in the Bay of Kotor.
• a very small community in the Carso and Trieste area, in Italy. This is the northwesternmost area populated by Croats. They are mostly assimilated, but traces remain in surnames and some place names.
• Primorska, Prekmurje and in the Metlika area in Dolenjska regions in Slovenia.
• Zala, Baranya and Somogy counties in Hungary, which are border areas with Croatia.
• Krashovans in Romania mostly consider themselves Croatian - see Croats of Romania.
• Burgenland in the eastern part of Austria and the bordering areas of western Hungary (the counties of Vas and Győr-Moson-Sopron) and Slovakia - the Croats of Gradišće - Burgenland Croats.
• Kosovo - Janjevci (Letničani).
• Molise area in Italy - Molise Croats.
• Szentendre town in Hungary, magyarized, but preserving a memory of their Croat origins (from Dalmatia).
• The area around Bratislava in Slovakia: the villages of Chorvátsky Grob, Čunovo, Devínska Nová Ves, Rusovce and Jarovce. Most have assimilated, but a small minority still preserves its Croatian identity.
• The Moravia region in the Czech Republic. The villages of Jevišovka (Frielištof), Dobré Pole (Dobro Polje) and Nový Přerov(Nova Prerava).

The population estimates are reasonably accurate domestically: around four million in Croatia and nearly 450,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or 14% of the total population.