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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Serbo-Croatian Bosna i Hercegovina, country (1995 est. pop. 3,202,000), 19,741 sq mi (51,129 sq km), on the Balkan peninsula, S Europe; a former republic of Yugoslavia. It is bounded by Croatia on the west and north and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) on the east. A narrow, undeveloped outlet to the Adriatic along the Neretva River in the southwest is its only outlet to the sea. The country is commonly referred to as Bosnia. Sarajevo is its capital.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. (Copyright © 2002-2008 Columbia University Press.)
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Pronunciation:  b z´´n - -h rt´s-g ´´v-n, -g-v´´-, hûrt´- from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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