North Macedonia

Officially known as the Republic of North Macedonia, NORTH MACEDONIA is a landlocked, oval-shaped country located in Southeastern Europe. North Macedonia is surrounded by 5 countries: Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, Kosovo to the northwest, and Serbia to the north. The capital of North Macedonia is Skopje. For monetary transactions, North Macedonian people use the (North) Macedonian Denar as their currency. The Denar's ISO 4217 currency code is MKD.

● ● ● ● ●  Historic Renaming  ● ● ● ● ●  On Tuesday, June 12th, 2018, officials from Greece and the formerly named Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.) met near Lake Prespa to finalize the Prespa Agreement, which declared that the sovereign country of Macedonia would be renamed to North Macedonia to help resolve decades-long tensions between both countries. These tensions stem from the fact that Greece has a historic region and province named Macedonia, a larger entity existing hundreds of years before the modern state. Before this name change, an almost indisputably awkward name — Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.), which is spelled Поранешна Југословенска Република Македонија in the Macedonian language — was officially used by the United Nations and other organizations. The name change to North Macedonia officially commenced in February 2019.