Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine / Федерација Босне и Херцеговине, pronounced) is one of the two federal entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Republika Srpska. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina consists of ten autonomous cantons with their governments and legislatures.

The Federation was created by the 1994 Washington Agreement, which ended the Croat–Bosniak War within the Bosnian War, and established a constituent assembly that continued its work until October 1996. The Federation has a capital, government, president, parliament, customs and police departments and two postal systems. It occupies about half of Bosnia and Herzegovina's land. From 1996 until 2005, it had its own army, the Army of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was later merged into the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The capital and largest city is Sarajevo with 275,524 inhabitants.