42 Facts About North Macedonia

North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a country in Southeast Europe.

The country became a member of the United Nations in April 1993, but as a result of a dispute with Greece over the name "North Macedonia", it was admitted under the provisional description "the former Yugoslav Republic of North Macedonia" .

Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic, North Macedonia is a member of the UN, NATO, the Council of Europe, the World Bank, OSCE, CEFTA, BSEC and the WTO.

North Macedonia is an upper-middle-income country according to the World Bank's definitions and has undergone considerable economic reform since its independence in developing an open economy.

The name North Macedonia was adopted officially for the first time at the end of the Second World War by the new Socialist Republic of North Macedonia, which became one of the six constituent countries of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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The Slavic tribes that settled in the region of North Macedonia converted to Christianity around the 9th century during the reign of Tsar Boris I of Bulgaria.

North Macedonia moved the capital to Skopje and then to Ohrid, which had been the cultural and military centre of southwestern Bulgaria since Boris I's rule.

Rumelia Eyalet was abolished in 1867 and that territory of North Macedonia subsequently became part of vilayets of Manastir, Kosova and Selanik until the end of Ottoman rule in 1912.

Almost the territory that was to become North Macedonia was annexed by Serbia conforming to the treaty of peace concluded at Bucharest.

South Serbia, including all of present-day North Macedonia, became the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

In December 1944 the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of North Macedonia proclaimed the People's Republic of North Macedonia as part of the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

North Macedonia officially celebrates 8 September 1991 as Independence day, with regard to the referendum endorsing independence from Yugoslavia.

North Macedonia remained at peace through the Yugoslav Wars of the early 1990s.

On 17 November 2020, Bulgaria refused to approve the European Union's negotiation framework for North Macedonia, effectively blocking the official start of accession talks with this country.

North Macedonia is a landlocked country that is geographically clearly defined by a central valley formed by the Vardar river and framed along its borders by mountain ranges.

North Macedonia has around fifty ponds and three natural lakes, Lake Ohrid, Lake Prespa and Lake Dojran.

In North Macedonia there are nine spa towns and resorts: Baniste, Banja Bansko, Istibanja, Katlanovo, Kezovica, Kosovrasti, Banja Kocani, Kumanovski Banji and Negorci.

Phytogeographically, North Macedonia belongs to the Illyrian province of the Circumboreal Region within the Boreal Kingdom.

North Macedonia had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 7.

North Macedonia is a parliamentary democracy with an executive government composed of a coalition of parties from the unicameral legislature and an independent judicial branch with a constitutional court.

The Constitution of North Macedonia has been in use since shortly after the independence of the republic in 1991.

The constitution states that North Macedonia is a social free state, and that Skopje is the capital.

Executive power in North Macedonia is exercised by the Government, whose prime minister is the most politically powerful person in the country.

North Macedonia became a member state of the UN on 8 April 1993, eighteen months after its independence from Yugoslavia.

North Macedonia is a member of the following international and regional organisations: IMF, WHO, EBRD, Central European Initiative, Council of Europe, OSCE, SECI, La Francophonie, WTO, CEFTA, NATO .

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At the NATO 2008 Bucharest summit, North Macedonia failed to gain an invitation to join the organisation because Greece vetoed the move after the dispute over the name issue.

North Macedonia established that Bulgaria had almost joined Greece in vetoing the accession talks.

North Macedonia is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Convention against Torture, and the Constitution guarantees basic human rights to all Macedonian citizens.

Since 1996, North Macedonia has witnessed steady, though slow, economic growth with GDP growing by 3.

North Macedonia still has one of the lowest per capita GDPs in Europe.

North Macedonia belongs to the less-developed southern region of the former Yugoslavia.

North Macedonia is in its position a continental country in the middle of the Balkan peninsula, and the main transport links in the country are those that connect the different parts of the peninsula .

North Macedonia Post is the state-owned company for the provision of postal traffic.

In 1993 it was admitted to the World Postal Union in 1997, PTT Macedonia was divided into Macedonian Telekom and Macedonian Post .

North Macedonia was ranked 59th in the Global Innovation Index in 2021 and 2019.

North Macedonia has the fifth-highest proportion of Muslims in Europe, after those of Kosovo, Turkey, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina .

North Macedonia was from the Methodist community, which is the largest and oldest Protestant church in the Republic, dating back to the late 19th century.

North Macedonia has a rich cultural heritage in art, architecture, poetry and music.

North Macedonia has a significant number of preserved Byzantine fresco paintings, mainly from the period between the 11th and 16th centuries.

The relatively warm climate in North Macedonia provides excellent growth conditions for a variety of vegetables, herbs and fruits.

North Macedonia was the winner of the European Golden Boot award in 1991 and he is best known for scoring the winning penalty in the 1991 European Cup Final, bringing Red Star Belgrade the most prestigious trophy in European football for the first time in its 50-year existence.

North Macedonia has participated in three EuroBaskets since then with its best finish at 4th place in 2011.