Macedonia ( ; ,
tr. Makedonija, ), officially the
Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian: , tr.
Republika Makedonija), is a country located in the central
Balkan peninsula in
Southeast Europe. It is one of the
successor states of the former
Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. It became a member of the
United Nations in 1993, but, as a result of an ongoing
dispute with Greece over use of the name Macedonia, it was admitted under the provisional description of
"the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (Поранешна Југословенска Република Македонија, tr.
Poranešna Jugoslovenska Republika Makedonija), abbreviated as
FYROM.