ABSTRACT
Formerly part of Yugoslavia and maintaining ‘the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’ as a joint name for the two republics, Serbia and Mon tenegro are situated on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe on an area of 102,375 square kilometres (39,500 square miles) (Serbia: 88,563 square kilometres; Montenegro: 13,812 square kilometres). Their 1993 population was 10.4 million (Serbia: 9.7 million; Montenegro: 616,300). Ethnically, the largest number are Serbs (6.5 million) but there are also Albanians (1.7 million), Montenegrins (520,500), Hungarians (345,300) and Muslims (327,200) with another 407,600 declaring themselves simply as Yugoslavs, and 523,600 others. The official language of both republics is Serbian, while national minority languages are also in use (Albanian and Hungarian particularly) in areas where they are in the majority. The Serbian Cap ital is Beigrade; the Montenegrin capital is Podgorica. Other political and cultural centres are found in Novi Sad, Pristina, Cetinje, Subotica, Sombor, Nis, Kragujevac, Niksic and Kotor.
