Kosovo has an area of 10,887 square kilometers. It is a geographical basin, situated at an altitude of about 500 meters, surrounded by mountains, and divided by a central north/south ridge into two subregions of equal size and population.The total 1998 population is believed to  be about 2.2 million people, including 82 to 90 percent ethnic Albanians. A large diaspora, mainly in Western Europe, plays an important role, particularly through remittances and the financing of the parallel structures developed throughout the 1990s. Minorities include Serbs, Gorans or Bosniacs (Muslim Slavs), Roms, and Turks. Demographic growth is estimated at about twenty per thousand and average household size is believed to be about 6 to 7 persons. Kosovo’s population is by far the youngest in Europe, with about half the people below the age of 20.



Kosovo homes are constantly being destroyed.