Serbia and Montenegro
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Serbia and Montenegro – Serbia |
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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% |
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Population – Total (2005) – Density |
Ranked 74th 10,829,175 104/km² |
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Currency | Serbia: Serbian Dinar (CSD)[4] Montenegro: Euro (EUR) |
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Time zone – in summer |
CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) |
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National anthem | Hej Sloveni | ||||
Internet TLD | .yu still used (.cs reserved) | ||||
Calling Code | +381 | ||||
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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Dependencies: Akrotiri and Dhekelia2 - Faroe Islands - Gibraltar - Guernsey - Jan Mayen - Jersey - Isle of Man - Svalbard |
Unrecognised countries: Abkhazia | Nagorno-Karabakh2 | South Ossetia | Transnistria | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus2 |
1. Country partly in Asia. 2. Geographically in Asia, but often counted as part of Europe for cultural and historical reasons. |