Balkans
The Balkans are usually said to comprise Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, while Greece and Turkey are often excluded. Its total area is usually given as 666,700 square km (257,400 square miles) and the population as 59,297,000 (est. 2002).
Balkans
"Western Balkans" is a political neologism coined to refer to Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia less Slovenia since the early 1990s. The region of the "Western Balkan", a coinage exclusively used in Pan-European parlance, roughly corresponds to the Dinaric Alps territory.