- Belgrade; 1,576,000 - 77,474 square kilometers (29,913 square
miles) - Orthodox, Muslim - Life Expectancy: - GDP per Capita: -
U.S. $2,200 - Literacy Percent: Serbia Facts Flag Located in
southwestern Europe, Serbia possesses a fertile Danube plain in
the north, but the land becomes rugged and mountainous in the
south. Serbia was once the dominant state within Yugoslavia, a
republic formed in 1929 to forcibly unify the Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats, and Slovenes. The republic was held together by
coercion—first under kings then under a communist
government—until 1991-92 when Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and
Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence. By 1992, all that
was left of Yugoslavia was Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia's
brutal war in the southern province of Kosovo, starting in 1998,
caused Montenegro to distance itself from Slobodan Milosevic and
his Yugoslav government. On February 4, 2003, the name
"Yugoslavia" passed into history, replaced by the union of
"Serbia and Montenegro." On June 3, 2006, Mo