1 Socialist Republics and Autonomous Provinces

Internally, the state was divided into six socialist republics, and two socialist autonomous provinces that were part of SR Serbia. The federal capital was Belgrade. Republics and provinces were:

1. Socialist republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with capital in Sarajevo,
2. Socialist republic of Croatia, with capital in Zagreb,
3. Socialist republic of Macedonia, with capital in Skopje,
4. Socialist republic of Montenegro, with capital in Titograd,
5. Socialist republic of Serbia, with capital in Belgrade, which also contained:
   5a. Socialist autonomous province of Kosovo, with capital in Priština
   5b. Socialist autonomous province of Vojvodina, with capital in Novi Sad
6. Socialist republic of Slovenia, with capital in Ljubljana.

2 History

Main article: History of Yugoslavia

The Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was established as a communist state, on November 29 1943 in Jajce. The first president was Ivan Ribar and prime minister Josip Broz Tito. In 1953, Tito was elected as president and later in 1963 named " President for life".

Yugoslavia, unlike other Eastern and Central European communist countries, chose a course independent of the Soviet Union (see Informbiro), and was not a member of the Warsaw pact nor NATO, but rather than that initiated a Non-Aligned Movement in 1956.

The most significant change to the borders of the SFRY occurred in 1954, when the adjacent Free Territory of Trieste was dissolved by the Treaty of Osimo. The Yugoslavian Zone B, which covered 515.5 km², became part of the SFRY. Zone B was already occupied by the Yugoslav National Army.

After Tito's death in 1980, tensions between the various peoples grew, and in 1991 its constituent republics Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina started breaking away. After the initial Yugoslav wars, the process ended in 1992 when the remainder of Yugoslavia, now having only two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

3 Demographics

This is data from two Yugoslav censuses ( 1971 and 1981). Nations that were considered to be constituent (ie. had their own socialist republic) appear in bold-text.

Nationality	1971	%	1981	%
Albanians	1,309,523	6.4	1,731,252	7.7
Bulgarians	58,627	0.3	36,642	0.2
Croats	4,526,782	22.1	4,428,135	19.7
Italians	21,791	0.1	15,116	0.1
Macedonians	1,194,784	5.8	1,341,420	6.0
Magyars	477,374	2.3	426,865	1.9
Montenegrins	508,843	2.5	577,298	2.6
Muslims	1,729,932	8.4	2,000,034	8.9
Serbs	8,143,246	39.7	8,136,578	36.3
Slovaks	83,656	0.4	80,300	0.4
Slovenes	1,678,032	8.2	1,753,605	7.8
Roma	78,485	0.4	148,604	0.7
Romanians	58,570	0.3	54,721	0.2
Turks	127,920	0.6	101,328	0.5
Yugoslavs	273,077	1.3	1,216,463	5.4
other/not determined	252,330	1.2	389,970	1.7
total	20,522,972	100	22,438,331	100

4 Republics by population

The population data is from the 1991 census.

Rank	Republic/Province	Population	%	Density
1	Serbia	9,506,174	40.9%	114.0
---	Serbia proper	5,582,611	24.0%	99.4
2	Croatia	4,784,265	20.6%	84.6
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,377,053	18.8%	85.6
4	Macedonia	2,033,964	8.8%	79.1
---	Vojvodina	1,996,367	8.6%	92.8
---	Kosovo	1,956,196	8.4%	183.1
5	Slovenia	1,913,355	8.2%	94.5
6	Montenegro	615,035	2.6%	44.5
	SFR Yugoslavia	23,229,846	100%	92.6

5 Republics by area

Rank	Republic/Province	Area (km²)	%	Density
1	Serbia	83,361	33.2%	114.0
2	Croatia	56,524	22.5%	84.6
---	Serbia proper	56,169	22.4%	99.4
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129	20.4%	85.6
4	Macedonia	25,720	10.3%	79.1
---	Vojvodina	21,506	8.6%	92.8
5	Slovenia	20,246	8.1%	94.5
6	Montenegro	13,810	5.5%	44.5
---	Kosovo	10,686	4.3%	183.1
	SFR Yugoslavia	250,790	100%	92.6

6 Republics by population density

Rank	Republic/Province	Population	Area (km²)	Density
---	Kosovo	1,956,196	10,686	183.1
1	Serbia	9,506,174	83,361	114.0
---	Serbia proper	5,582,611	56,169	99.4
2	Slovenia	1,913,355	20,246	94.5
---	Vojvodina	1,996,367	21,506	92.8
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,377,053	51,129	85.6
4	Croatia	4,784,265	56,524	84.6
5	Macedonia	2,033,964	25,720	79.1
6	Montenegro	615,035	13,810	44.5
	SFR Yugoslavia	23,229,846	250,790	92.6

7 See also

• List of leaders of communist Yugoslavia
• Unique Master Citizen Number
• Yugoslavia

Former Yugoslavia (SFRY)
Republics
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Croatia | Macedonia | Montenegro | Serbia | Slovenia
Autonomous provinces of Serbia
Kosovo | Vojvodina

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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