North Macedonia

thumb|300px|right|The flag and national anthem of Macedonia.
North Macedonia (Macedonian: Северна Македонија; transliterated: Severna Makedonija), officially the Republic of North Macedonia (Macedonian: Република Северна Македонија; transliterated: Republika Severna Makedonija), is a country in the central Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. It was admitted to the United Nations in 1993 under the provisional reference of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, sometimes abbreviated as FYROM.
==Religion in North Macedonia==
North Macedonia is a Christian majority country, 64.7% of North Macedonia's people adhere to the Orthodox Church.
Islam is the religion of 33% of North Macedonia's population, making it the country with the fourth largest Muslim population in Europe, after Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
North Macedonia has a small Jewish, mostly Sephardi, population almost all of whom live in the capital, Skopje.
About 0.1% or less of the people of North Macedonia are Buddhists.
==See also==
*Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
==References==
*http://www.thedhamma.com/buddhists_in_the_world.htm
*The Complete Book of Buddha's Lists -- Explained. David N. Snyder, Ph.D., 2006.
*http://www.thedhamma.com/
==External links==
* Wikipedia article about North Macedonia.
* Wikivoyage article about North Macedonia.
Category:Buddhism by location
Category:Christian-Majority Countries