Travel Alert Status
Level 4: Do Not Travel
Time Difference:
UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Travel Climate:
Mediterranean climate, hot dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfalls inland
Languages:
Serbian (Ijekavian dialect - official)
Ethnic Groups:
Montenegrin 43%, Serbian 32%, Bosniak 8%, Albanian 5%, other (Muslims, Croats, Roma) 12%
National Holiday:
National Day, 13 July (1878, the day the Berlin Congress recognized Montenegro as the 27th independent state in the world, and 1941, the day the Montenegrins staged an uprising against Nazi occupiers and sided with the partisan Communist movement)
Geographic Coordinates:
42 30 N, 19 18 E
Location:
Southeastern Europe, between the Adriatic Sea and Serbia
Airports:
5