Facts of Bosnia & Herzegovina
First published: Saturday March 27th, 2021
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1. Similar to Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina is dotted with land mines left over from war!
2. Bosnia & Herzegovina is home one of the last JUNGLES in Europe! Perucica lies on the border with Montenegro and has been untouched for hundreds of years!
3. The currency of Bosnia & Herzegovina, the Marka, is one of the few currencies that cannot be exchanged anywhere else in the world!
4. Sarajevo was the first socialist country to host a Winter Games in 1984!
5. The Sarajevo Sarat Tower is said to be the only clock in the world that keeps lunar time! Thats the time it takes for the moon to spin around and go around the earth and return to the same position
6. Bosnia is home to "countries" similar to the UK. Republika Srpska and Brcko.
7. Sarajevo was the city that started WWI! (That's not your fault Bosnians) All i'm saying is: Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated here.
8. Bosnia & Herzegovina has the 2nd shortest coastline in the world! at only 20 km, Only Monaco has a shorter one.
9. Bosnia & Herzegovina Is also called the "Heart-Shaped Country" because the country sort of resembles a heart.
10. glug glug! Bosnia & Herzegovina has the 10th highest coffee consumption per capita!