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Federal President: Svetozar Marovic (2003)
Presidents: Boris Tadic, Serbia (2004); Filip Vujanovic,
Montenegro (2003)
Prime Ministers: Vojislav Kostunica, Serbia (2004); Milo
Djukanovic, Montenegro (2002)
Area: 39,517 sq mi (102,350 sq km)
Note: We give
the information above in the Christian Personals Primer
so that you will have a little background on the country before
you contact a perspective mate, just in case you don't know the
basics. Perhaps this info will give you something to talk about
Population (2004 est.): 10,825,900 (growth rate: 0.0%);
birth rate: 12.1/1000; infant mortality rate: 13.4/1000; life
expectancy: 74.4; density per sq mi: 274
Capital and largest city (2003 est.):
Belgrade, 1,717,800 (metro. area), 1,285,200 (city proper)
Other large cities: Pristina, 204,500; Novi Sad, 191,300;
Nis, 174,000
Monetary unit: Yugoslav new dinar
Languages: Serbian (official) 95%, Albanian 5%
Ethnicity/race: Serbs 62.6%, Albanians 16.5%,
Montenegrins 5%, Hungarians 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991)
Religions: Orthodox 65%, Islam 19%, Roman
Catholic 4%, Protestant 1%, other 11%
Literacy rate: 93% (1991)
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 2.017
million (1995); mobile cellular: 87,000 (1997). Radio
broadcast stations: AM 113, FM 194, shortwave 2 (1998). Radios:
3.15 million (1997). Television broadcast stations: more
than 771 (including 86 strong stations and 685 low-power
stations, plus 20 repeaters in the principal networks; also
numerous local or private stations in Serbia and Vojvodina)
(1997). Televisions: 2.75 million (1997). Internet
Service Providers (ISPs): 9 (2000). Internet users: 400,000
(2001).
International disputes: the Albanian government calls for
the protection of the rights of ethnic Albanians outside its
borders in the Kosovo region of Serbia and Montenegro while
continuing to seek regional cooperation; several ethnic Albanian
groups in Kosovo voice union with Albania; has delimited about
half of the boundary with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but sections
along the Drina River remain in dispute; in late 2002, Serbia
and Montenegro and Croatia adopted an interim agreement to
settle the disputed Prevlaka Peninsula, allowing the withdrawal
of the UN monitoring mission (UNMOP), but discussions could be
complicated by the inability of Serbia and Montenegro to come to
an agreement on the economic aspects of the new federal union. |
