Croatia has 56,542 square kilometers (plus its sea area - 31,900 sq.km.) 1,777 km of coastline (and more than 4,000 km of islands coastline), 4,437,000 inhabitants (just as a quarter of New York), and almost as many abroad, counting through last three generations. Among altogether 47 European countries Croatia is:

26th with respect to its population, and also 26th with respect to its area.

Among 47 European countries we also include Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Russia, but with respective population and area only in Europe, as done in the literature. It had the greatest emigration rate in the world, after Ireland.