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Montenegro: map and facts
Montenegro is in Southern Europe. It has 623,129 people (2025), the 164th largest population. It covers 13,883 km², the 155th largest by area. That is about 45 people per km². Its highest point is Zla Kolata, at 2,534 m. The longest river on its map is the Drina, 346 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 623,129 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 13,883 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Podgorica
- Highest point: Zla Kolata, 2,534 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 61.5% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Montenegro, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Drina: 346 km
- Lim: 220 km
- Moraca: 99 km
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Zla Kolata: 2,534 m (its highest point)
- Bobotov Kuk: 2,523 m
- Maglic: 2,386 m
Mountain ranges: Dinaric Alps.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): savanna 27.9%, wooded savanna 22.8%, grassland 21.8%, deciduous broadleaf forest 14.5%, mixed forest 7.1%, evergreen conifer forest 2.8%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 90.3%, hills 8.6%, plains 1.1%.
Forests covered 61.5% of its land in 2024, the same as in 2010 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Montenegro shares land borders with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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