Geographical Position of Serbia

Abstract

Serbia represents an excellent example of how the geographic position of a country is a complex and extremely dynamic category. Located at the Southeast Europe, as a medium-size country, Serbia occupies the central part of the Balkan Peninsula and the southern rim of Pannonian Basin. Being in such geographical position, Serbia and its people have been permanently under different political, economic and cultural influences.

Serbia is predominantly highland zone criss-crossed by river basins in the south, with highly fertile agricultural lands and navigable rivers and canals of the Pannonian Plain in the north. Being located in the North Temperate Zone characterized by normal day-and-night cycles, Serbia has mild continental climate that passes into mountain climate in the southern highland regions and continental climate in the Pannonia plain. It is a continental country but with favourable position for traffic and transportation. The political issues at the end of the last century and transition from centrally planned to market economy shaped Serbia as developing European country with a prominent depopulation and a high out-migration rate.