Land area: 10,908 km²

Terrain: Low flood plains throughout central Kosovo, surrounded by mountains to the north, west and south.

Land Use: 53% agriculture, 39% forests

Capital: Prishtina - est. population 500,000

Population: approximately 2.2 million

Ethnic composition: 90% Albanian, 5% Serbs, 2% Muslim Slavs (Bosniaks, Gorans), 2% Roma and 1% Turks

Distribution: 42% urban, 58% rural

Diaspora: over 500,000 Kosovars living abroad

Languages: Albanian, Serbian. Due to international presence is English short of official language.