|Flag||Coat of Arms| |Language||Macedonian, Albanian (official)|
|Prime minister||Nikola Gruevski| |Area||9,779 sq mi| |GDP
2006||$16.94 billion| |GDP per capita||$7,645 (2006)| Macedonia,
or the Republic of Macedonia, officially recognised by the UN
and most countries as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
(FYROM) is a Balkan inland country located in southeastern
Europe. The official name of this country is still not
recognised due to the name conflict of the word Macedonia, used
to describe the ancient Greek territories of Macedonia and the
prefecture of Macedonia of modern Greece. The name Macedonia is
a Greek word originating from the adjective Makednos, meaning
big. Ancient Macedonians were of Greek origin and spoke Greek,
in contrast to today's residents of FYROM who speak a slavic-
bulgarian idiom (slavic majority) and albanian (albanian
minority) and do not have a direct tie-in to ancient Macedonia.
Macedonia is located in the heart of south central Europe. It
shares a border with Greece to the