South-East Europe

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South-east Europe:

Greece:

• capital: Athens
• area:  131,944 sq.km
• pop:  10.6m (2000)
• govt: presidential parliamentary republic
• currency: drachma
• language: Greek, English, French
• religion: Greek Orthodox 97%
• geography:

Macedonia:

• capital: Skopje
• area:  25,333 sq.km
• pop:  2m (2000)
• govt: emerging democracy
• currency: Macedonian denar
• language: Macedonian 70%, Albanian 21%, Turkish 3%, Serbo-Croatian 3%
• religion: Eastern Orthodox 67%, Muslim 30%
• geography:

Albania:

• capital: Tirana
• area:  28,748 sq.km
• pop:  3.5m (2000)
• govt: democracy
• currency: lek
• language: Albanian, Greek
• religion: Muslim 70%, Orthodox Christian 20%, Catholic 10%
  • constitutionally an atheist state since 1967, but in 1990 the right to practise religion was restored
• geography:

Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro):

• capital: Belgrade (Serbia); Podgorica (Montenegro)
• area:  102,350 sq.km (Serbia 88,412 sq.km; Montenegro 13,938 sq. km)
• pop:  10.7m (2000)
• govt: federally based republic (previous republic of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Macedonia separated 1993)
• currency: Yugoslav new dinar
• language: Serbo-Croatian, Albanian
• religion: Serbian Orthodox 35%, Catholic 30%, Sunni Muslim 15%
• geography:

Bulgaria:

• capital: Sofia
• area:  110,912 sq.km
• pop:  7.8m (2000)
• govt: republic
• currency: lev
• language: Bulgarian, Turkish
• religion: Bulgarian Orthodox 85%, Muslim 13%, Jewish 0.8%, Catholic 0.5%
• geography:

Bosnia - Herzegovina:

• capital: Sarajevo
• area:  51,223 sq.km
• pop:  3.8m (2000)
• govt: emerging democracy
• currency: convertible marka
• language: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
• religion: Serbian Orthodox, Catholic, Sunni Muslim
• geography:

Croatia:

• capital: Zagreb
• area:  56,540 sq.km
• pop:  4.3m (2000)
• govt: republic (declared independence from Yugoslavia 1991, recognised 1992)
• currency: Croatian kuna
• language: Serbo-Croatian
• religion: Catholic 77%, Orthodox 11%, Muslim 1%
• geography:
  • Dalmatian Coast on the west of the slopes of the Dinaric Alps of Bosnia-Herzegovina