Geography of SFRj

Yugoslavia, with a land area of 98,610 square miles (255,400 square kilometers), in 1990 is slightly larger than Wyoming in the United States. The area controlls the most important land routes from central and western Europe to the Aegean Sea and Turkish straits. The nation shares borders with Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, and Romania.

The territory’s terrain is extremely varied, with rich fertile plains to the north, limestone ranges and basins to the east, ancient mountains and hills to the southeast, and extremely high shoreline with no islands off the coast to the southwest. The highest point is Daravica at 8713 feet (2656 meters).

Natural resources include coal, copper, bauxite, timber, iron ore, antimony, chromium, lead, zinc, asbestos, mercury, crude oil, natural gas, nickel, and uranium. Twenty eight percent of the land is considered arable.