!!!Macedonia: Geography
||Location|Southeastern Europe, north of Greece
||Geographic Coordinates|41 50 N, 22 00 E[{GoogleMap location='41.833332,22.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''25,713 sq km\\''land: ''25,433 sq km\\''water: ''280 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 25713\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 0\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 25333\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 25333\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 25713\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 25713''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''766 km\\''border countries: ''Albania 151 km, Bulgaria 148 km, Greece 246 km, Kosovo 159 km, Serbia 62 km
||Coastline|0 km (landlocked)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Vardar River 50 m\\''highest point: ''Golem Korab (Maja e Korabit) 2,764 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Golemi Korab 2764 m; Titov Vrv 2747 m; Pelister 2601 m; Solunska Glava 2540 m; Ljuboten 2498 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Titov Vrv 2784 m; Turcin 2702 m; Crni Kamen 2675 m; Celepinski Vrv 2554 m; Солунска Глава 2538 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Europe/Macedonia/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valleys; three large lakes, each divided by a frontier line; country bisected by the Vardar River
||Natural Hazards|high seismic risks
||Natural Resource|low-grade iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, chromite, manganese, nickel, tungsten, gold, silver, asbestos, gypsum, timber, arable land
||Land Use|''arable land: ''16.1%\\''permanent crops: ''1.36%\\''other: ''82.54% (2011)
||Climate|warm, dry summers and autumns; relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall
||Irrigated Land|1,278 sq km (2004)
||Renewable Water Resources|6.4 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|air pollution from metallurgical plants
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Skopje; Kumanovo; Bitola; Prilep; Tetovo\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Skopje; Bitola; Kumanovo; Prilep; Tetovo\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Europe/Macedonia/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|landlocked; major transportation corridor from Western and Central Europe to Aegean Sea and Southern Europe to Western Europe