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Serbia and Montenegro[sUr´bEu, mon´´tunE´grO] Pronunciation Key, Serbo-Croatian Srbija i Crna Gora, formerly Yugoslavia[yOO´´gOslA´vEu] Pronunciation Key, Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija, federal republic (2003 est. pop. 10,800,000), 39,439 sq mi (102,173 sq km), SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula, a union of the republics of Serbia and the much smaller Montenegro. Serbia and Montenegro is bordered by the Adriatic Sea, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Croatia in the west, Hungary in the north, Romania and Bulgaria in the east, and Macedonia and Albania in the south. Belgrade is the federal capital and by far the largest city.
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