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According to statements of the Macedonian government, 134 foreign nations had recognized the country under the name of "Republic of Macedonia" as of January 2017. [1] Some had used this name from the outset, others switched their stance after originally using the UN reference "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (notably the United States under George W. Bush's administration), while ...
UN Security Council will suggest to third countries to use the name "Republic of North Macedonia" in official bilateral relations; the name "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" will no longer be an acceptable name for the country "Macedonia" alone cannot be used by any of the two parties as an official name for the country or the region.
The Macedonia naming dispute ended on 12 February 2019 when the two countries reached the Prespa agreement and the then-Republic of Macedonia changed its name to North Macedonia. Macedonia refers also to a geographic region in Greece, which roughly coincides with the southernmost major geographic subregion of Macedonia.
Disputes involving the name of a whole entity being used to refer to a part of it (totum pro parte), and vice versa (pars pro toto) American for the United States/Americas/North America: The terms 'America' and 'American' are frequently used to refer only to the United States and its people. This sometimes causes resentment among some non-US ...
On 12 February 2019, the Republic of Macedonia changed its name to the Republic of North Macedonia following the Prespa agreement that ended the long-standing Macedonia naming dispute. In light of these events, editors on Wikipedia conducted a new RFC to adopt a new set of naming conventions and amend the ones in place since 2009.
North Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [8]
The foreign relations of North Macedonia since its independence in 1991 have been characterized by the country's efforts to gain membership in international organizations such as NATO and the European Union and to gain international recognition under its previous constitutional name, overshadowed by a long-standing, dead-locked dispute with neighboring Greece.