Serbia is a landlocked country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. It borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. The population of Serbia is estimated to be around 7.5 million, the lowest of any country in the region.
About Serbia in brief
Serbia is a landlocked country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. It borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest. The country claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the largest and oldest citiеs in southeastern Europe. Serbia is a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic, a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, CEFTA, and is acceding to the WTO. Since 2014, the country has been negotiating its EU accession with the perspective of joining the European Union by 2025. Serbia provides social security, universal health care system, and a free primary and secondary education to its citizens. It is one of the European countries with high numbers of registered national minorities. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region’s first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. In 1945, the official name for Serbia was the People’s Republic of Serbia, later renamed the Socialist Republic of Serbian from 1963 to 1990. Since 1990, theofficial name of the country have been the Republic of Serb, or Serbia. It has a population of approximately seven million, with the majority of the population living in the capital Belgrade.
Its economy is based on agriculture, with a dominant service sector, and the country ranks relatively high on the Human Development Index and Social Progress Index as well as the Global Peace Index. Serbia has a high rate of unemployment and a low rate of infant mortality. The population of Serbia is estimated to be around 7.5 million, the lowest of any country in the region. Serbia’s economy is the second-largest in Europe, after Germany, after the Netherlands. Its population of Serbs is approximately 7 million, and it has a low unemployment rate of around 5%. Serbia’s population of women is approximately 5.7 million, making it the third-lowest of all European countries, after Greece and Italy. Serbia is one of only a handful of countries in the world with a large number of ethnic Serb minorities. The Serbs are the second most populous ethnic group in Europe after the Germans, with an average population of around 7 million. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by the Holy See and Constantinople in 1217, reaching its territorial apex in 1346 as the relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. The Ottomans annexed the entirety of modern-day Serbia; their rule was at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which began expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century while maintaining a foothold in Vojvodina. The Romans conquered much of the territory of the region in the 2nd century BC.
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