General Information on Serbia
Serbia is a landlocked country. Eastern and western part of Serbia is mostly mountainous region, while northern part (Vojvodina) and central part is lowland with developed agriculture. The climate is temperate continental. Serbia borders with Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia. The land area (88,360 km2 according to World Bank data) data should be considered as provisional. The preparation of the digital cadastre plan for the territory of the Republic of Serbia is under way; thus, it is still not possible to take over final data on certain municipalities’ land area. The border length data should be used provisionally because borders toward former Yugoslav Republics were only administrative, i.e., not marked or strictly defined.
The population of Serbia in 2014 was 7,129,428. In the period between two last censuses (2002 and 2011), there was a decrease in the total number of population of...
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Simić, V. (2016). Serbia: Mineral Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_41-1
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