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fiogf49gjkf0d THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IS A SMALL, LANDLOCKED COUNTRY
IN THE BALKANS, BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY YUGOSLAVIA,
ON THE EAST BY BULGARIA, ON THE SOUTH BY GREECE,
AND ON THE WEST BY ALBANIA. ITS CAPITAL IS SKOPJE.
FORMERLY PART OF YUGOSLAVIA, IT BECAME INDEPENDENT IN 1991.
THE TERRITORY OF REPUBLIC IS LOCATED BETWEEN 40 DEG 51'
AND 42 DEG 22' NORTH LATITUDE AND 20 DEG 27'32''
AND 23 DEG 02', EAST LONGITUDE.
THE TERRITORY IS 25.713 SQUARE KILOMETERS WIDE WITH
POPULATION OF OVER 2 MILLION PEOPLE.
LENGTH OF THE MACEDONIAN BORDER IS 850 KILOMETERS.
SOMETIMES CALLED VARDAR MACEDONIA, AFTER THE VARDAR RIVER,
WHICH FLOWS SOUTHEAST THROUGH ITS TERRITORY INTO GREECE,
MACEDONIA CONSIST MOSTLY OF HIGHLANDS AND MOUNTAINS,
WITH ELEVATIONS REACHING 2,764M IN THE KORAB RANGE ON THE
ALBANIAN BORDER.
PARTICIPATION OF PLAIN TEREINS IN THE TOTAL AREA OF
MACEDONIA IS 19% .
THERE ARE 3 NATURAL TECHTONIC LAKES OHRIDSKO, PRESPANSKO
AND DOJRANSKO WITH TOTAL LAKE SURFACE OF 434 SQUARE KM'S
AND 3 NATIONAL PARKS GALICICA, MAVROVO, PELISTER.
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