BA — Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country in southeastern Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. Sarajevo, the capital, hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics and is known for its multicultural heritage. The country has a complex political structure with two entities — the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. The Convertible Mark (BAM) is pegged to the Euro. For developers, the BA country code maps to bs-BA (Bosnian), hr-BA (Croatian), and sr-BA (Serbian) — three official languages that are linguistically very similar but use different standards and sometimes different scripts (Latin and Cyrillic). The .ba domain and +387 calling code serve the country. Bosnia's trilingual requirement with potential dual-script (Latin/Cyrillic) needs is complex for localization. Serbian in Bosnia can be written in both scripts. The complex administrative structure (two entities, a district, and ten cantons) creates unusual address formatting requirements. The BAM's Euro peg simplifies currency conversion.