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Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo (алб. Republika e Kosovës; серб. Република Косово) is a country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition.

Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008.

In December 2022, Kosovo filed a formal application to become a member of the European Union.

Name

The name Kosovo is of South Slavic origin. Kosovo (серб. (кирилиця) Косово) is the Serbian neuter possessive adjective of kos (кос), 'blackbird', an ellipsis for Kosovo Polje, 'Blackbird Field', the name of a field situated in the eastern half of today's Kosovo and the site of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo Field. The name of the karst field was for the first time applied to a wider area when the Ottoman Vilayet of Kosovo was created in 1877.

Demographics

The Agency of Statistics estimated Kosovo's population in 2021 to be approximately 1,774,000.

In 2019, Albanians constituted 92% of the population of Kosovo, followed by ethnic Serbs (4%), Bosniaks (2%), Turks (1%), Romani (1%), and the Gorani (<1%).