E. Capital (Article I.5)

Capital. The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be Sarajevo.

Even after the signing of the Dayton Agreement, Sarajevo continued to remain the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo has always been the capital and also the political, administrative and cultural centre of the former Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time, Sarajevo is the capital of the Federation of BiH, which is one of the Entities (Article 4 of the FBiH Constitution), and the capital of the Canton Sarajevo, which comprises 9 municipalities (of which four are the municipalities of Sarajevo City). This administrative- territorial division was agreed upon in the Washington Agreement of 1 March 1994. Sarajevo is the largest city in BiH with its 304,000 inhabitants (according to data from 2006).

As a capital, Sarajevo is the main seat of the executive power. Moreover, all the constitutional authorities are seated in Sarajevo: the Parliamentary Assembly, the Presidency, the Standing Committee on Military Matters, the Constitutional Court and the Central Bank. Most of the State institutions are situated in Sarajevo, so the Court of BiH and the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council have their seats in the capital. In meeting the aspirations that common institutions be more widely distributed in other parts of the country, the Indirect Taxation Administration³⁸¹ has been seated in Banja Luka, the capital of the Republika Srpska.