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Interesting Facts about Bosnia and Herzegovina

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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22 curious facts about Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia Herzegovina has the world's highest unemployment rate with over 75%.
Bosnia Herzegovina has the world's lowest birth rate with 54.5 per 1,000 people.
The name Sarajevo comes from the Turkish word saraj, meaning palace. The city is the most Arabic in Europe, with cathedrals churches and synagogues alongside mosques and the central Bascarsija or Turkish bazaar.
The jugo is a distinct wind that brings rain to various parts of the country.

Bosnia and Herzegovina contains many varieties of rocks, metals and minerals. The Kresevo mountain range consists of slate rock.
The Turks constructed towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina in traditional Middle Eastern pattern, consisting of two districts: commercial quarters (bazaars) and residential quarters (mahalas). Today, city planners still follow this pattern.
Traditionally in Muslim families, to become a godparent, an adult would cut a lock from the child’s head and place it over a gold coin, which would be tied up to secure the lock in place.
Bosnian maple is highly valued by violin makers.
During the recent siege of Sarajevo, people used a kilometre-long tunnel under the airport as a link to the outside world. Supplies, blackmarket goods, troops and refugees were moved in and out by this means.
Sarajevo, until then a relatively unknown city, attracted international attention when it hosted the 14th Winter Olympic Games in 1984. The Olympic mascot was a wolf called Vucko, who became internationally famous through posters and television ads.