Interesting facts about Montenegro Bashny.Net

According to a study by the International Council of travel and tourism, Montenegro is among the three most rapidly developing tourist destinations in the world!

Interesting fact: Bojana – a unique river that flows in opposite directions!

According to the estimates of 2011, the country is home to 626 thousand.





In Kotor located the street on which not to miss 2 people! It is called "Let me through!" is the narrowest in the world.

The pride of Montenegro, and most common tourist goods are handmade carpets, tapestries and jewelry. Also the huge popularity of the wine, ceramics and objects of artistic treatment of wood is an interesting fact.

Montenegrin citizens do not like war, so don't even start talking about it.

The official language is Montenegrin, although the majority of the population speaks Serbian. Widely distributed, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian.



Interesting fact: one of the main successes in tourism is the lack of mandatory visas for tourists.

More than 75% of the population of Montenegro are Orthodox Christians. Also, there are a large number of Sunni Muslims – Islam 17%.

Popular domain .me belongs to Montenegro. At the moment on the Internet there are more than 231 million sites in the area .me — interesting fact.

Fun fact: Montenegro – very inconvenient for mappers country, as its location on the map is not enough even to figure! (the figure on the maps represent small countries, compliance with which is in the map legend).



Podgorica – the capital and largest city of Montenegro. Its area is 225 km2 and a population of more than 136 thousand people. At the moment Podgorica is experiencing a building and tourism boom, is an interesting fact.

According to the Constitution, the historical capital of the country is the city of Cetinje is the cultural center of the state.

The best time to visit Montenegro begins in may and stretches to October. During this period, it is best heated sea water, is kept hot at a temperature of +24-28 °C. However at night it is better to have a warm sweater.

At the moment Montenegro is a parliamentary-presidential Republic. President — Filip vujanović, Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.

Interesting fact: in 2006, the country withdrew from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro declared independence. The day of the proclamation of June 3 is a national holiday.



The country's name comes from Serbian words "Crna Gora", which means "Black mountain".

More than 40% of the territory is covered by forests.

Interesting fact: in Montenegro, over 45% of the population consider themselves Montenegrins, 30% Serbs, however, 43% of the total population is native Serbian, and only 36% of the Montenegrin.

The country's economy is the processing of aluminium, light industry, ferrous metallurgy and shipbuilding. Recent years, Montenegro has started to gain huge profits from the tourism sector that moves the economy in the summer, is an interesting fact.

Montenegro has a modest area 13.8 km2.



The state currency is the Euro. Montenegro has no right to print money (the country is not part of the EU), so most of the money coming into the country from tourists.

Interesting fact: in the culture of the country no raisins, which would characterize the state of Montenegro. The fact is that over the long history is here intertwined set of cultures, peoples and styles. Christianity and Islam have contributed to the cultural development of the West and East of the country.

Bobotov Kuk, the highest mountain and climbing center of Montenegro. The mountain is 2523 m.

The area of the country even smaller than Connecticut (USA), is an interesting fact.