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'Croats' (Croatian: ''Hrvati'') are a South Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There is a notable Croat diaspora in western Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Croats are predominantly Roman Catholic and their language is Croatian.

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Croatia is the nation state of the Croats, while in the adjacent Bosnia and Herzegovina they are one of the three ''constitutive nations''.
Autochthonous Croat minorities exist in or among:

★ Vojvodina, the northern autonomous province of Serbia, where the Croatian language is official (along with five other languages); the vast majority of the Šokci consider themselves Croats, as well as many Bunjevci (the latter had settled the vast and abandoned area after the Ottoman retreat, as well as other nationalities there; the origins of this Croat subgroup are from the south; mostly in the region of Bačka)

★ The Šokci and Bunjevci communities in Bács-Kiskun county in Hungary

★ Bay of Kotor on the western coast of Montenegro there is a Croatian minority

★ a very small community in Carso and Trieste area, in Italy. This is the northwesternmost area populated by of Croats - they are mostly assimilated, but there traces in surnames and some placenames

★ Primorska, Prekmurje and in the Metlika area in Dolenjska regions in Slovenia

★ Zala, Baranya and Somogy counties in Hungary, which are border areas with Croatia)

★ Krashovans in the <a hr