COUNTRY ARCHIVE

Serbia

EUROPE · SOUTHEAST EUROPE · Republic of Serbia
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TERRITORIAL OUTLINE
Flag of Serbia
NATIONAL FLAG

Serbia (officially Republic of Serbia) is a country in Southeast Europe, with its capital at Belgrade, and is home to roughly 6.6M people.

Serbian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Serbian dinar (дин.); people from here are called Serbian.

> INTEL_
CAPITALBelgrade44.787 N / 20.457 E
POPULATION6,586,476~6.6M
AREA77,611 km²
LANGUAGESSerbian
CURRENCYSerbian dinar (дин.)
DEMONYMSerbian
UN MEMBERYES
LANDLOCKED⛰ YES, NO COASTLINE
> NOTABLE_
  • »Serbia is one of the world's largest producers of raspberries.
  • »Belgrade sits where the Sava meets the Danube and has been fought over for centuries.
> BORDERS_

Serbia touches eight neighbours: Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, Bulgaria to the southeast, Croatia to the west, Hungary to the north, Kosovo to the south, Montenegro to the southwest, North Macedonia to the south and Romania to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in six different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.

ROMANIACROATIAHUNGARYBULGARIABOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINANORTH MACEDONIAMONTENEGROKOSOVOBELGRADE
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> THE CAPITAL_

Belgrade stands where the Sava meets the Danube and has been fought over more than almost any European city, destroyed and rebuilt dozens of times.

> SCALE_

77,611 km² (29,966 sq mi), 115th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Czechia.

Population 6,586,476, 109th of 198 on file. That averages 85 per km² (220 per sq mi).

> THE FLAG_

The pan-Slavic red, blue and white with the coat of arms toward the hoist: a double-headed eagle and a cross flanked by four Cyrillic firesteels.