- Capital: Belgrade
- Area: 102,350 sq km (Serbia 88,412 sq km;
Montenegro 13,938 sq km)
- Population: 11,206,847
(Serbia—10,526,478; Montenegro—680,369) (July 1999 est.)
- Currency:
Yugoslav New Dinar
- Form of government: Serbia and Montenegro
have asserted the formation of a joint independent state - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
or FRY, successor to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or SFRY; republic;
bicameral Federal Assembly or Savezna Skupstina consists of the Chamber of Republics or
Vece Republika (40 seats—20 Serbian, 20 Montenegrin; members distributed on the basis of
party representation in the republican assemblies to serve four-year terms) and the
Chamber of Citizens or Vece Gradjana (138 seats - 108 Serbian with half elected by
constituency majorities and half by proportional representation, 30 Montenegrin with six
elected by constituency and 24 proportionally; members serve four-year terms); president
elected by the Federal Assembly for a four-year term; prime minister appointed by the
president
- Languages: Serbo - Croatian (95%), Albanian (5%)
- Religion: Othodox (65%), Muslim (19%), other (16%)
- National holiday: St. Vitus Day, 28 June
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