North Macedonia

North Macedonia

North Macedonia ranks 77th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind North Korea, Ghana, and Indonesia. Memorable people born in present day North Macedonia include Justinian I, Mother Teresa, and Baba Vanga. Memorable people who died in North Macedonia include Clement of Ohrid, Saint Naum, and Beyhan Sultan. North Macedonia has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the north. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia. Skopje, the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's 1.83 million people population. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians, a South Slavic people. Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks, Roma, Serbs, Bosniaks, Aromanians and a few other minorities. Read more on Wikipedia