Bosnia y Herzegovina

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Banja Luka, Mostar, Tuzla — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Sarajevo was besieged for 1,425 days between 1992 and 1996 — the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare — and the city today contains a dedicated Tunnel of Hope Museum beneath a private house through which food and weapons were smuggled under the airport runway during the encirclement.

Los principales idiomas hablados son bosnio, croata, serbio, que reflejan el patrimonio cultural del país y abren puertas a una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Bosnia y Herzegovina se contacta mediante el código +387. Sarajevo's Baščaršija quarter — the 15th-century Ottoman bazaar district — contains a Catholic cathedral, Orthodox church, mosque and synagogue within 500 metres of each other, a proximity that has been called the Jerusalem of Europe and that represents both the city's historic coexistence and the specific reason it became the target of forces who found that coexistence intolerable.

Bosnia y Herzegovina comparte sus fronteras con Serbia, Croacia, Montenegro. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+01:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2014 World Cup qualification — the country's first since independence in 1992 — was achieved with Edin Džeko and Miralem Pjanić leading a squad that became a vehicle for post-war national cohesion, and their opening tournament win over Argentina in Group F produced celebrations in Sarajevo that the city compared to liberation.

The Sutjeska National Park in southeastern Bosnia contains Perućica, one of Europe's last two remaining primeval rainforests — a relict Holocene forest of 3,000-year-old beech and fir trees covering 1,434 hectares in a river canyon so remote that it was not systematically surveyed until the 1950s.