North Macedonia
North Macedonia (officially Republic of North Macedonia) is a country in Southeast Europe, with its capital at Skopje, and is home to roughly 1.8M people.
Macedonian is the official language; the currency in circulation is denar (den); people from here are called Macedonian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Lake Ohrid is one of the oldest and deepest lakes in Europe.
> BORDERS_
North Macedonia touches five neighbours: Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the northeast, Greece to the south, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Skopje was rebuilt after a 1963 earthquake destroyed most of it, and then remodelled again in the 2010s with a large programme of neoclassical facades and statues.
> SCALE_
25,380 km² (9,799 sq mi), 146th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Rwanda.
Population 1,824,359, 150th of 198 on file. That averages 72 per km² (186 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The eight-rayed sun replaced an earlier design in 1995 after Greece objected that the Vergina Sun was a Hellenic symbol, a dispute that also kept the country's name contested until 2019.