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Bosnia

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Latin: Bosna i Hercegovina; Serbian Cyrillic: Босна и Херцеговина) is a country in South-East Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina (also: Bosnia-Herzegovina/Bosnia and Hercegovina) is almost landlocked, except for 26 kilometres (16 miles) of Adriatic Sea coastline, centered on the town of Neum. The interior of the country is mountainous centrally and to the south, hilly in the northwest, and flatland in the northeast. Inland is the larger geographic region with a moderate continental climate, marked by hot summers and cold, snowy winters. The southern tip of the country has a Mediterranean climate and plane topography.

Tourism

Various tourist attractions: Sarajevo, the capital and the largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Stari Most in Mostar, river in Trebinje, Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. According to an estimation of the World Tourism Organization, Bosnia and Herzegovina will have the third highest tourism growth rate in the world between 1995 and 2020.

Lonely Planet, in ranking the best cities in the world, ranked Sarajevo, the national capital and host of the 1984 Winter Olympic Games, as #43. Tourism in Sarajevo is chiefly focused on historical, religious, and cultural aspects. Bosnia has also become an increasingly popular skiing and Ecotourism destination. Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the last undiscovered regions of the southern area of the Alps, with vast tracks of wild and untouched nature attracting adventurers and nature lovers. The central Dinaric Alps are favored by hikers & walkers, containing both Mediterreanean & Alpine climates. Whitewater rafting is something akin to a national pastime, with 3 rivers including the deepest river canyon in Europe, Tara River.

Tourist attractions

Sarajevo "Olympic City" a Science, Space City, Cultural City;

Banja Luka, the "Green City"; art city, sport city, city of three nations and culture, capital city of Republic of Srpska.

Bihać and the river Una with its waterfalls and the Una River, within Una National Park;

Doboj and its 13th century fortress;

Jajce and its waterfall;

The Neretva river and the Rakitnica river canyons in Upper Neretva;

The Trebižat river and its waterfalls Kravice and Kočuša;

The Buna and its spring Vrelo Bune with the historical town of Blagaj;

The Lower Tara river canyon;

The Perućica ancient forest, one of the last two remaining primeval forests in Europe, and the Sutjeska river canyon, both within Sutjeska National Park;

Počitelj historical village;

Mostar, the site of Stari Most;

Shrine of Međugorje, the site of a famous Marian apparition;

Mount Bjelašnica and Jahorina, sites of the XIV Olympic Winter Games;

Neum on the coast;

Stolac, the Begovina neighborhood and Radimlja tombstones;

Višegrad, the site of the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge;

Visoko, site of the alleged Bosnian pyramids;

Tešanj, one of the oldest cities in Bosnia with its old town;

Bijeljina, a beatuful city known for its agriculture and its well known Etno village Stanisic.

Tuzla, Salt city, the city of Love.

Text und Photos from Wikipedia