Serbia

The Republic of Serbia (Serbian Republika Srbija) is not a landlocked country in south-eastern Europe, in the central part of the Balkan Peninsula. It is bordered by UN member states in the south of Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania - on the east, Hungary - in the north, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina - in the west, with Montenegro and Albania in the south-west.

it is composed of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, almost all the territory which in fact is controlled by partially recognized Republic of Kosovo,according to the administrative-territorial division of Serbia.

The capital is Belgrade (Belgrade), the large cities are Subotica (Subotica), Novi Sad (Novi Sad), Nish (Nis). The population is  7.82 million people (in 2008) including:  5,82 million in central Serbia, 2 million in Vojvodina .

52% of the population live in cities. In the composition of the population is dominated by serbs (62%) and albanians (17%). The constitution and laws of Serbia guarantees freedom of religion.

The economy of the country is based on the agrarian and industrial sectors. The minerals are lignite and brown coal, oil, ores, copper, lead and zinc, uranium, bauxite. The processing industry of Serbia is mechanical, engineering, metalworking, chemical, pharmaceutical, woodworking, textile, leather and footwear, food processing. The main branch of agriculture is  crop production. Serbs  grow grain, sugar beets, sunflowers, hemp, tobacco, potatoes, vegetables, fruit and berries. Raw materials and semifinished products, consumer goods and foodstuffs, machinery and industrial equipment are for export.

The plain are in the north of Serbia. The mountains become the greater in  to the south of the country. The 15 mountains of Serbia have a height over 2,000 meters above the  sea level. We can distinguish four mountain systems in Serbia. The Dinaric Alps is a large area in the west, stretching from the north-west to the  south-east. The Stara Planina and the East Serbian mountains are located in the east and separated from the Dinaric by the river Morava. Tere are ancient mountains in the south. It’s  a part of the Rila-Rhodope system.

The climate of Serbia varies from the continental in the north with cold winter and hot, humid summer to the Adriatic with dry and hot summer and cold, snowy winters.

 The territory of Vojvodina belongs to the zone of a typical continental climate, the air masses reaching here from the north and west of Europe, which determine the climate. The south and the south-east of  Serbia are at the mercy of the mediterranean climate, but the mountainous terrain of the continent as a whole cools the warm air flows from the south heading inland.

The pluses of Serbia’s  tourism are: a good nature, the opportunities for hunting, fishing and a good historical excursion program. There is a ski resort, Kopaonik. Tere are many SPA resorts in Serbia: Banja Koviljaca, Buyanovachka Banya, Vrnjacka Banja, Zlatibor, Nishka Banja, Soko Banja.