Capital:Skopje
Population:2,045,262
Area:25,333 sq km
Climate:warm, dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall
Languages:Macedonian 66.5%, Albanian 25.1%, Turkish 3.5%, Roma 1.9%, Serbian 1.2%, other 1.8%
Currency:Macedonian denar (MKD)
Government:parliamentary democracy
Religions:Macedonian Orthodox 32.4%, other Christian 0.2%, Muslim 16.9%, other and unspecified 50.5%
Source: CIA World Factbook 2007
