Balkan Countries

The Balkans is a peninsula in southeastern Europe, named after the Balkan mountain range that runs through Bulgaria. The region is a patchwork of countries that emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia plus several older states. Its borders as a region are debated, so a handful of countries are only partially considered Balkan depending on the source.

11 countries The countries of the Balkan Peninsula. Membership of borderline states such as Slovenia and Romania varies by source.

Country	Capital	Currency	Population
Albania	Tirana	ALL L	2,349,580
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	BAM KM	3,140,095
Bulgaria	Sofia	EUR €	6,433,302
Croatia	Zagreb	EUR €	3,876,200
Greece	Athens	EUR €	10,413,962
Kosovo	Pristina	EUR €	1,660,000
Montenegro	Podgorica	EUR €	623,129
North Macedonia	Skopje	MKD den	1,820,909
Romania	Bucharest	RON lei	19,020,271
Serbia	Belgrade	RSD дин.	6,549,143
Slovenia	Ljubljana	EUR €	2,130,986

Populations from the World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL); other fields from open datasets. Sources and vintage on the data page. Membership of cultural regions can vary between sources; this list uses the definition described above.