Serbia and Montenegro

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Државна заједница
Србија и Црна Гора
Državna zajednica
Srbija i Crna Gora

State Union of
Serbia and Montenegro
Flag
Flag of
Serbia and Montenegro
Coat of Arms of
Serbia and Montenegro
Image:LocationSerbiaAndMontenegro.png
Serbia and Montenegro

 – Serbia
   – Kosovo and Metohia
       (UN administration)
   – Vojvodina
 – Montenegro

Map of SCG
Official language Serbian language written in Cyrillic alphabet[1]
Capital Belgrade[2]
President[3] Svetozar Marović
Area
 – Total
 – % water
Ranked 105th
 102,350 square kilometre|km²
 0.25%
Population
 – Total (2005)
 – Density
Ranked 74th
 10,829,175
 104/km²
Currency Serbia: Serbian Dinar (CSD)[4]
Montenegro: Euro (EUR)
Time zone
 – in summer
CET (UTC+1)
CEST (UTC+2)
National anthem Hej Sloveni
Internet TLD .yu still used (.cs reserved)
Calling Code +381
  1. Latin alphabet and more languages are official at various local levels.
  2. Court of Serbia and Montenegro is in Podgorica.
  3. Also Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
  4. in Kosovo and Montenegro the Serbian Dinar is not widespread and the euro is used for most purposes instead.

Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian: Србија и Црна Гора, Srbija i Crna Gora, abbreviated as "SCG") is the name of the state union of Serbia and Montenegro. They used to be two separate Yugoslav republics.

It is on the west-central Balkan Peninsula, bordering Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia on the western sides, Hungary to the north, Romania and Bulgaria to the east, the Republic of Macedonia to the south and Albania to the south-west with just over 200 km of access to the Adriatic.

Serbia and Montenegro cooperate in only some political areas. The states have separate economic policies and currencies. The country does not have a unified capital anymore, dividing it between Belgrade in Serbia and Podgorica in Montenegro. Each of the two states may seek full independence in a vote, which can be held in 2006.

The Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia, while a part of Serbia is, since war in 1999, protected by the United Nations. It is outside the control of Serbian and Montenegrin authorities. Its final status is yet to be determined.

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