The Republic of Serbia in Central and South-Eastern Europe Serbia in the centre of the Balkan Peninsula with the capital Belgrade covers 88,361 km². It borders Hungary to the north, Romania and Bulgaria to the east, Albania and North Macedonia to the south, Montenegro to the south-west and Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia to the west.

From the 1990s onwards, the former state of Yugoslavia was divided into its former parts as a result of warlike events. First Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia and Slovenia became independent and in 2003 the rest was renamed Serbia-Montenegro and in 2006 Montenegro seceded and became Serbia. Finally, in 2008, the southern province of Kosovo also proclaimed itself independent.
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