Size: 28,750 square kilometers (land area 27,400 square kilometers) slightly larger than Maryland.

Location: Southeastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and the eastern part of the Strait of Otranto, opposite the heel of the Italian boot between approximately 40° and 43° north latitude.

Topography: A little over 20 percent is coastal plain, some of it poorly drained. Mostly hills and mountains, often covered with scrub forest. The only navigable river is the Bunė.

Climate: Mild temperate cool, cloudy, wet winters with a January low of 5° C hot, clear, dry summers with a July high of 28° C interior is cooler and wetter.

Boundaries: Land boundaries total 720 kilometers borders with Greece 282 kilometers border with former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 151 kilometers border with Serbia 114 kilometers border with Montengro 173 kilometers coastline 362 kilometers.

Data as of April 1992