Emergency numbers
- 192
- Police
- 194
- Ambulance
- 193
- Fire Dpt.
General Information
Capital city
Zagreb
Language
Croatian
Time zone
UTC+1 (summer time: UTC+2)
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Voltage
230V (type C and F sockets)
Climate
Hot summers and milder winters
Country dialing code
+385
SIM card providers
Hrvatski Telekom (T-Mobile brand), A1, Telemach
Population
4 million
Cities with IAESTE LCs
In Croatia we have 1 cities with local committees:
Osijek
Places that we recommend visiting:
Traditional cuisine
Any kind of fish
Fish is used in various traditional foods in Croatia, as Croatia is very rich with water. On the coast you can try anything from octopus to lobster, and in continental Croatia, the sweet water fish is made fried, cooked or cooked in the famous Fiš.
Kulen
Part of the Slavonija and Baranja cuisine, it is a type of flavoured sausage made from minced pork. The pork meat is low-fat, spicy flavoured with hot red paprika and garlic.
Čorbanac
Traditional Slavonija and Baranja meal, usually made from three or more types of meat, some of it often being from wild animals such as deers, does or boars. It is prepared in a kettle and it is cooked for hours on a mid fire. It is spiced with paprika and salt (nowadays with our famous Vegeta spice) and it should be so spicy it burns.
Did you know ?
According to Alfred Hitchcock, the seaside city of Zadar in Dalmatia holds the title of the best sunset in the world.
The world’s first torpedo was constructed in Rijeka
Red Lake near the city of Imotski, Croatia is the deepest sinkhole in Europe, 3th largest in the world.
Rice chocolate was invented in Croatia in 1963 at the Zvečevo factory in the western Slavonian city of Požega.
Croatian Ivan Vučetić invented dactylography - a science of using fingerprints for identification, used today mainly in forensics but in other fields as well.
Interesting and useful information
Tap water
The tap water is safe to drink
No roaming for EU
As Croatia is part of the EU, if you are from EU yourself, roaming while in Croatia - doesn’t exist anymore. You can use your data (please do check with your provider on which percentage of the data you can use) and make phone calls as you would in your home country