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Croatia, Banovina of

Years: 1939 - 1941

The Banovina of Croatia or Banate of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Banovina Hrvatska) is an autonomous province (banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1939 and 1941.

It is formed by a merger of Sava and Littoral banovinas into a single autonomous entity, with small parts of the Drina, Zeta, and Danube banovinas also included.

Its capital is Zagreb and it includes most of present-day Croatia along with portions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

It has a surface area of sixty-five thousand four hundred and fifty six square kilometers and a population of four million, twenty-four thousand, six hundred and one in late 1939.

Its sole Ban during this period is Ivan Šubašić.