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Bosnia and Herzegovina: map and facts

Bosnia and Herzegovina is in Southern Europe. It has about 3.14 million people (2025), the 132nd largest population. It covers 51,210 km², the 125th largest by area. That is about 61 people per km². Its highest point is Maglic, at 2,386 m. The longest river on its map is the Sava, 945 km from source to mouth.

Facts

• Population: 3,140,095 (2025, World Bank)
• Area: 51,210 km² (2023, World Bank)
• Capital: Sarajevo
• Highest point: Maglic, 2,386 m (Wikidata)
• Forest: 42.2% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Rivers

The longest rivers on the map of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):

• Sava: 945 km
• Drina: 346 km
• Bosna: 282 km
• Neretva: 225 km
• Lim: 220 km
• Una: 207 km

Also on the map: Vrbas.

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

• Maglic: 2,386 m (its highest point)
• Troglav: 1,913 m
• Dinara: 1,831 m

Mountain ranges: Dinaric Alps.

Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Balkan Peninsula.

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): deciduous broadleaf forest 32.7%, wooded savanna 21.4%, savanna 11.9%, grassland 10.5%, mixed forest 8.8%, farmland 7.2%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 66.4%, hills 26.8%, plains 6.8%.

Forests covered 42.2% of its land in 2024, the same as in 1995 (World Bank).

Neighbours

Bosnia and Herzegovina shares land borders with Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

• Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
• GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
• Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
• The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
• The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
• The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
• Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
• Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
• Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.

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