Country Profiles

Central & Eastern Europe

Albania

Republic of Albania -- Republika e Shqiperise  read full article »

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Bosna i Hercegovina  read full article »

Bulgaria

Republic of Bulgaria -- Republika Balgariya   read full article »

Croatia

Republic of Croatia -- Republika Hrvatska  read full article »

Czech Republic

Czech Republic -- Ceska Republika  read full article »

Estonia

Republic of Estonia -- Eesti Vabariik  read full article »

Hungary

Hungary -- Magyarország  read full article »

Latvia

The Republic of Latvia, or Latvia, is a country in Northern Europe. Latvia has land borders with its two fellow Baltic states — Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south — and Russia and Belarus to the east. In the west Latvia shares a maritime border with Sweden.  read full article »

Lithuania

The Republic of Lithuania is a republic in Northeastern Europe. One of the three Baltic States along the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with fellow Baltic State Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland to the south, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the southwest.  read full article »

Macedonia

Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe with an area of around 67,000 square kilometres and a population of 4.65 million. The territory corresponds to the basins of (from west to east) the Aliakmon, Vardar/Axios and Strymon rivers (of which the Vardar drains by far the largest area) and the plains around Thessaloniki and Serrai (also known as Saloniki and Serres, respectively).  read full article »

Poland

The Republic of Poland, a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia to the north.   read full article »

Romania

Romania is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Ukraine and Moldova in the northeast, Hungary in the west and Serbia and Bulgaria to the south along the Danube river. Romania has a stretch of sea coast on the Black Sea and the eastern and southern Carpathians mountains run through its center.  read full article »

Serbia

Serbia is located on the west-central Balkan Peninsula.  read full article »

Slovakia

Slovakia is a landlocked republic in Central Europe. It borders the Czech Republic in the northwest, Poland in the north, Ukraine in the east, Hungary in the south, and Austria in the southwest.  read full article »

Slovenia

The Republic of Slovenia is a coastal sub-Alpine country in south central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.  read full article »