- Capital: Sarajevo
- Area: 51,233 sq km
- Population: 3,482,495 (July 1999 estimated)
- Currency: convertible marka
- Form of government: On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the former Yugoslavia's three warring parties signed a peace agreement that brought to a halt over three years of interethnic civil strife in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Dayton Agreement divides Bosnia and Herzegovina roughly equally between the Muslim/Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska while maintaining Bosnia's currently recognized borders; emerging democracy; bicameral Parliamentary Assembly or Skupstina consists of the National House of Representatives or Vijece Opcina (42 seats—14 Serb, 14 Croat, and 14 Muslim; members elected by popular vote to serve two-year terms) and the House of Peoples or Vijece Gradanstvo (15 seats—5 Muslim, 5 Croat, 5 Serb; members elected by the Muslim/Croat Federation's House of Representatives and the Republika Srpska's National Assembly to serve two-year terms); the three-person presidency members (one Muslim, one Croat, one Serb) are elected by popular vote for a four-year term; the president with the most votes becomes the chairman unless he was the incumbent chairman at the time of the election; the cochairmen of the Council of Ministers are appointed by the presidency
- Languages:: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
- Religion: Muslim (40%), Othodox (31%), Catholic (15%), Protestant (4%), other (10%)
- National holiday: Republika Srpska - "Republic Day," 9 January; Independence Day, 1 March; Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina—"Republic Day," 25 November
