Serbia

Serbia is a crossroads of Europe and geopolitically an important territory. International roads and railways that pass through river valleys and make the shortest connection between western and central Europe on the one and the Near East, Asia and Africa on the other side.

Serbia is situated in the central part of the Balkan peninsula, on the most important routes that connect Europe and Asia and covers the area of 88,361 square kilometres. It is in the time zone of Western Europe (an hour ahead of GMT) and with a moderate continental climate and gradually changing four seasons.

Serbia is a crossroads of Europe and geopolitically an important territory. International roads and railways that pass through river valleys and make the shortest connection between western and central Europe on the one and the Near East, Asia and Africa on the other side. These routes follow the Morava river valley, which forks near Niš. One follows the Južna Morava and the Vardar valley to Thessalonica, and the other the river Nišava towards Sofia and Istanbul.

The rivers of Serbia belong to the Black Sea, the Adriatic Sea and The Egean Sea divides. Three of them are navigational: the Danube, Sava and the Tisa. The longest is the Danube, flowing through Serbia for 588 km, of its total 2,857 km length. The Danube basin has always been important for Serbia. In September 1992, when the Rain-Main-Danube canal was open, the Blacks Sea and the ports of the Near and Far East became much closer to Europe. The connection with the Adriatic Sea and Montenegro goes via the Belgrade Bar railway.

The northern part of Serbia, Vojvodina, is mainly a flatland, while the central and southern regions are mountainous. The plains are in the Great Hungarian Plain and its brims: Mačva, Posavina, Pomoravlje, Stig and Negotinska krajina in southern Serbia. Serbia has 55 per cent of arable land, while 27 per cent is covered by forests. There are 15 mountain peaks reaching over 2,000 metres, the highest being Đeravica on Prokletije.
(2.656 m).

The length of the Serbian border is 2,114 km. On the east it borders Bulgaria, in south-east with Romania, in the north with Hungary, and in the west with Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the south with Albania and Macedonia.