Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia (; , "Makedonía" ) is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and Greek region, with a population of 2.38 million in 2017. The region is highly mountainous, with most major urban centres such as Thessaloniki and Kavala being concentrated on its southern coastline. Together with Thrace, and sometimes also Thessaly and Epirus, it is part of Northern Greece. It also contains Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic region of Greece.
Macedonia (terminology)
Republic of Macedonia is the constitutional name of the sovereign state which occupies the northern part of the geographical region of "Macedonia", which roughly coincides with the geographic subregion of Vardar Macedonia. "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (FYROM) is a term used for this state by the main international organisations, including United Nations,
European Union,
NATO,
IMF,
WTO,
IOC,
World Bank,
EBRD,
OSCE,
FIFA,
and FIBA.
The term was introduced in 1993 by the United Nations, following a naming dispute with Greece. Some countries use this term as a stop-gap measure, pending resolution of the naming dispute.