'''Macedonia''' officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a country in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans Balkan Peninsula] in Southeast [[Europe]]. It gained its independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia Yugoslavia]. A landlocked country, North Macedonia has borders with [[Kosovo]] to the northwest, [[Serbia]] to the northeast, [[Bulgaria]] to the east, [[Greece]] to the south, and [[Country:Albania|Albania]] to the west. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia. The capital and largest city, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje Skopje], is home to roughly a quarter of the country's 2.06 million inhabitants.