Geography and Population
The area of the canton is 2,908 km². At the 1991 census, the area was populated by 949,621 people of which 60% were Bosniaks, 28% Serbs, 9% Croats, and the rest belonged to minority groups (Yugoslavs, Roma, Slovenes, Jews, Ukrainians et al.).
In 2002, the Tuzla Canton had an estimated population of 607,571 residents of which 546,814 were Bosniaks (90%).
The second largest ethnic group is the Croat minority living mostly in Tuzla and in Živinice. The Serb minority lives predominantly in Tuzla, and the Roma population is mostly present in Tuzla but also in most of the other municipalities in smaller numbers.
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