Vacation in CroatiaSituated in Southern Central Europe,Croatia is a roughly horseshoe-shaped country with a coastline 1,777 kilometres long. No less than 1,185 islands lie offshore, but only 66 of them are inhabited. To the east and south are Bosnia and Montenegro, both peaceful, and newly independent countries of the former Yugoslavia. Croatia's stunning coastline is on the Adriatic Sea, one of the cleanest seas in the Mediterranean and wonderfully warm.