This is not correct.
Bosnia and Herzegovina does have a beach, albeit a short oneonly 20 kilometers long.
It is the second shortest coastline in the world after Monaco.
Even tiny islands such as Tuvalu andNauruhave longer coastlines.
Bosnia and Herzegovinas coastline is barely visible on the map above.
To see it, you have to zoom into Google Maps.
This is Bosnia and Herzegovinas coastline.
All 20 kilometers of it belongs to the town and municipality of Neum.
Neum actually punctures the long Croatian arm cutting off its southernmost territory from the rest of Croatia.
This part of Croatia is a pretty big tourist destination itself.
The beautiful walled, mediaeval city of Dubrovnik is located here.
So how did Croatia end up with all that coastline?
To understand it, we have to go back to the time when Dubrovnik was an independent state.
The Ottoman Empire had control over the adjacent Kingdom of Bosnia and the region of Herzegovina.
The walled city of Dubrovnik.
Dubrovnik was left untouched until it fell to Napoleon’s army in 1806.
Meanwhile Bosnia remained under the Turks until 1878.
Then came the Austro-Hungarians, and following the First World War, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was born.
Bosnia and Herzegovina retained its only access to the Adriatic Sea through the Neum corridor.
The Adriatic coast at Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Construction on the 2.4 km long bridge was supposed to have begunearly this month.
