[T]he country - and I am determined to call it Macedonia - has a perfect right to exist. The population is overwhelmingly Macedonian, with a distinctive language, culture and history... The people are civilised, friendly and highly educated. ~ David Cameron

North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a country located in the Balkan Peninsula of Southeast Europe. It is one of the indirect successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. A landlocked country, North Macedonia has borders with Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, and Albania to the west. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia, which also comprises the neighboring parts of northern Greece, southwestern Bulgaria, southeastern Albania, southern Kosovo, and Serbia. The country's geography is defined primarily by mountains, valleys, and rivers.

Quotes

  • [T]he country - and I am determined to call it Macedonia - has a perfect right to exist. The population is overwhelmingly Macedonian, with a distinctive language, culture and history. It is poorer than some of the other old Yugoslav republics, but considerably richer than Albania. The people are civilised, friendly and highly educated. Even my tour guide had an MBA... From now on I will call our esteemed EU partner "the former Ottoman possession of Greece".
  • [T]he Republic of Macedonia is strongly determined to continue to build friendly and good-neighborly relations.
  • Today over Macedonia, is being born the new sun of liberty. The Macedonians fight for their own rights! The Macedonians fight for their own rights!
    • Vlado Maleski, "Denes nad Makedonija" (1943)
    • Original Macedonian: Денес над Македонија се раѓа, ново сонце на слободата! Македонците се борат, за своите правдини!
  • Macedonia has succeeded over the last 16 years to build a state architecture of equal opportunities. Every single citizen can be engaged in politics, in culture, the economy, in education, in media, and there are schools for everyone in their mother tongue, news for everyone in their mother tongue, politics for everyone in their mother tongue—sometimes too much.
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