Croats at a soccer game
The Croats are a Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia, a coastal nation in the Balkans region of Southern Europe. The Croats are a Catholic people who have significant populations in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and they are also recognized minorities in Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia. In 2016, there were around 8,500,000 Croats across the world.