Serbia and Montenegro
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State Union Serbia and Montenegro | |||||
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National information | |||||
National motto: | none | ||||
National anthem: | "Хеј Словени/Hej, Sloveni"
(English: Hey, Slavs) |
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About the people | |||||
Official languages: | Serbian, Albanian | ||||
Population: (# of people) | |||||
- Total: | 10,832,545 (ranked 76) | ||||
- Density: | 127 per km² | ||||
Geography / Places | |||||
Here is the country on a map of the world. | |||||
Capital city: | Belgrade, Podgorica | ||||
Largest city: | Belgrade | ||||
Area | |||||
- Total: | 102,350 (ranked 116) | ||||
- Water: | 214 km² (0.1%) | ||||
Politics / Government | |||||
Established: | February 4, 2003 | ||||
Leaders: | President Svetozar Marović | ||||
Economy / Money | |||||
Currency: (Name of money) |
Serbia: Serbian Dinar (CSD) Montenegro: Euro (EUR) Kosovo: Euro (EUR) and Serbian Dinar (CSD) | ||||
International information | |||||
Time zone: | +01:00 | ||||
Telephone dialing code: | 381 | ||||
Internet domain: | .yu (.cs was given to Serbia and Montenegro. They never used the domain.) |
Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian: Србија и Црна Гора, Srbija i Crna Gora, abbreviated as "SCG") was the name of the state union of Serbia and Montenegro. They used to be two separate Yugoslav republics. In 2006, they became their own countries.
It was on the west-central Balkan Peninsula, next Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia on the western sides, Hungary to the north, Romania and Bulgaria to the east, the Republic of Macedonia to the south and Albania to the southwest, with just over 200 km of coast on the Adriatic.
Serbia and Montenegro worked together in only some political areas. The states had separate economic policies and currencies (money).