COUNTRY FACTS

 

Population:

10,662,087 (2000)

 

Location:

Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Area:

102,350 sq km 

 

Language:

Serbian 95%, Albanian 5%

 

Literacy:

N/A

 

Compulsory Education:

Age 15

 

Currency:

Yugoslav New Dinar (YD) and Deutsche Mark (DM), in Montenegro only

Note:  The federation is made up two former republics of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro, and two nominally autonomous and ethnically diverse regions, Vojvodina and Kosovo.

Source: UNESCO IBE Database and World Fact Book, CIA

This country profile was developed by WES with funding from the Government of Ontario.

Revised: 05/06/2004
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