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Serbia Geography

**Time to Explore the Geography of Serbia!**
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By exploring this page you will learn a little bit about the geography of Serbia. You will find some information about major cities, population, climate, and different land forms in Serbia. Please look at all this information and be able to answer some questions about it in the questions tab.

To the left is the map of Serbia. It includes the capital, which is Belgrade, and many major cities in Serbia. You can also see the bodies of water and the surrounding countries. Also by looking at this map, you can see the amound of area Serbia contains. Serbia has 214 sq km of water, and 102,136 sq km of land, which is a total 102,350 sq km. (Climate Zone, 2004)

To the right is the population map of Serbia. This is something that tells you how many people live in certain areas of the country. The current population is Serbia is 9,779,000, which has a density population of 111 per square km. (Maps of World, 2011)

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The map above is a map that shows the distance between Blegrade, the capital of Serbia, and Leskovac. The travel time between the two locations is 3 hours and 7 minutes. The two cities are 272 km apart.

The map to the left is the physical map of Serbia. The physical map is something that shows the physical geography of this country, like the bodies of water, mountains, and landforms. The brown part of the map indicates higher elevation, while the green part of the map indicates lower elevation. This map shows that Serbia has a lot of higher elevated land.

Below is a picture of the Rudnik Mountain Range in Serbia.

**Climate** Serbia has many different types of climates. The northern part of Serbia has climates like right here in Illinois. They have cold winters and hot, humid summers, with distributed rainfall. In the central part of the country they have continental climates, which is climates where there are 3 or more months of temperatures greater than 50 degrees and the colder months temperatures are colder than 27 degrees. They also experience some Mediterranian climates. This consits of hot, dry summers and cold, wet winters. Finally to the south they experience adriatic climates, which is along the coast. They experience hot, dry summers and autums, and cold winters and heavy snowfall inland. (Climate Zone, 2004) (Wikipedia, 2011)

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