YUGOSLAVIA was the Yugoslav state that existed from the end of World War II (1945) until it disintegrated in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. It was a socialist state that comprised the area of the present-day independent states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. |
Official name | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
The land area (km2) | 255,800 | |
Population (1989 est.) | 23,724,919 | |
Languages | Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovenian | |
Capital | Belgrad |