North Macedonia is a southern European state located on the Balkan Peninsula. It is one of the successor states of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to which it declared its independence in 1991. Country without access to the sea, it has borders with Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. The country occupies approximately the northern half of geographic Macedonia, which also extends to Bulgaria and Greece.
Lake of Debar, North MacedoniaSkopje, capital of North Macedonia. Photo: Dejan Sokolovski
