June 17, 2009

R. Macedonia - Geography

Macedonia is has a total area of 25,333 km2 (9,781 sq mi). It has some 748 km (465 mi) of boundaries, shared with Serbia (62 km/39 mi) to the North, Kosovo (159 km/99 mi) to the northwest, Bulgaria (148 km/92 mi) to the east, Greece (228 km/142 mi) to the south, and Albania (151 km/94 mi) to the west. The country represents a major transportation corridor between Western and Central Europe to Aegean Sea and Southern Europe to Western Europe. It is part of a larger region also known as Macedonia, which includes a region of northern Greece known as Macedonia – administratively split into three peripheries, one of them comprising both Western Thrace and a part of Greek Macedonia – and the Blagoevgrad province in southwestern Bulgaria.

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