Bosnia and Herzegovina document photos online

Few documents tell a country's story as plainly as Bosnia and Herzegovina's money. After the war ended with the 1995 Dayton Agreement, the new state needed a currency everyone could trust, so in 1998 it created the convertible mark — named after the German mark it was pegged to one-for-one. To keep three constituent peoples on equal footing, the very banknotes were printed in both Latin and Cyrillic script, and the KM 10 through KM 100 notes carry different designs in the Federation and Republika Srpska. The result is a single legal tender that quietly carries two alphabets and two political halves in your wallet.

• Passport The Bosnia and Herzegovina passport climbed into the global top tier, ranking 43rd on the Henley Passport Index in 2025 with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to roughly 130 destinations — among the world's five most-improved passports since 2006.
• Travel Bosnians have enjoyed visa-free travel across the entire Schengen Area since 15 December 2010, a privilege the EU granted only after the country rolled out its biometric passport.
• Currency The convertible mark (BAM) is locked to the euro at the unchanging rate of 1 EUR = 1.95583 KM — a figure inherited unaltered from its original one-to-one peg with the German Deutsche Mark.
• Banknotes To balance its communities, banknotes from KM 10 to KM 100 are issued in two different designs for the Federation and Republika Srpska, with text in both Latin and Cyrillic — only the KM 200 note, featuring Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić, is identical nationwide.
• Statehood Bosnia and Herzegovina's identity is constitutionally tri-headed: the 1995 Dayton constitution created a three-member presidency of a Bosniak, a Croat and a Serb, who rotate the chairmanship every eight months.
• Documents The country runs a strikingly distributed ID system — official figures cite 162 institutions involved in issuing its biometric passports, first introduced on 14 October 2010.
• History Mostar's Stari Most, an Ottoman stone arch built in 1566, stood for 427 years before being shelled into the river in 1993 and painstakingly rebuilt with original techniques, reopening in 2004 as a UNESCO World Heritage symbol of reconciliation.
• Record In 1885 Sarajevo became one of Europe's tram pioneers, and the city later ran what is often cited as the continent's first full-time electric tram line — a showcase route for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• Geography Despite being mostly landlocked and mountainous, the country owns about 20 km of Adriatic coastline at Neum — the world's second-shortest sea coast after Monaco.