facts

1. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
CROATIA
By: Valentina Jelinić

2. CROATIA HAS OVER 1246 ISLANDS

3. ALMOST 10% OF CROATIA IS MADE UP
OF 11 NATURE PARKS AND 8 NATIONAL
PARKS

4. AMPHITHEATRE IN PULA IS ONE OF
ONLY 3 PERSERVED IN WORLD

5. NECKTIE ORIGINS FROM CROATIA

6. NIKOLA TESLA IS BORN IN CROATIAN
VILLAGE SMILJAN

7. CROATIA HAS THE RICHEST
COLLECTION OF REMAINS OF
NEANDERTHAL PEOPLE IN WORLD

8. ZLATNI RAT BEACH CHANGES THE
SHAPE AND COLOUR DEPENDING ON
THE WIND

9. WORLD’S FIRST ʺSEA ORGAN” THAT IS
PLAYED BY THE SEA’S WAVES IS IN
ZADAR

10. THE HBO’S HIT SERIES ʺGAME OF
THRONES” IS LOCATED IN DUBROVNIK

11. THE WALLS OF DUBROVNIK ARE
AMONG THE LARGEST IN EUROPE

12. CROATIA WAS ONCE A
KINGDOM,TOMISLAV,THE FIRST KING
WAS CROWNED 925

13. CROATIA IS A HOME OF THE WORLD’S
SMALLEST TOWN CALLED ʺHUM”

14. THE DALMATIAN BREED OF DOG
ORIGINATES FROM THE SOUTHERN
CROATIAN REGION OF DALMATIA

15. CROATIA HAS TWO NOBEL PRIZE
WINNERS,VLADIMIR PRELOG AND
LAVOSLAV RUŽIČKA (BOTH RECEIVED
PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY)