🇲🇰 North Macedonia

Where is North Macedonia?

North Macedonia lies in Southeast Europe, on the continent of Europe.

It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 4 657 km from the equator.

North Macedonia is landlocked: it has no coast at all, so you cannot reach the sea without crossing another country.

It shares a border with 5 countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo and Serbia.

How big is North Macedonia?

North Macedonia covers 25 713 square kilometres.

That is about 9.9 times the size of Luxembourg.

Among the world's countries that makes it the 145th largest.

If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 81.1 people on every square kilometre.

Who lives in North Macedonia?

About 2.1 million people live in North Macedonia.

That is the 144th biggest population in the world.

People here speak Macedonian.

They pay with the denar (den).

On average, people born here can expect to live about 74 years.

The land of North Macedonia

The land in North Macedonia sits on average 741 metres above sea level.

Because it is landlocked, everything that arrives by ship has to cross one of its 5 neighbours first.

It lies between the tropics and the poles, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.

What makes North Macedonia different?

A dish the country is known for: Tavče Gravče.

Websites from here often end in .mk.

North Macedonia and the rest of the world

Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 0.3 live in North Macedonia.

It takes up about 0.02 % of all the land that countries stand on.

Within Europe it is the 35th largest of 45 countries, and the 32nd most populated.

That is close to the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.

North Macedonia and its neighbours

Greece, its largest neighbour, is about 5.1 times bigger.

Greece has more people: 10.7 million against 2.1 million.