Question Why is the region called the Balkan region?
What are the countries in the Balkan region?
Answer Balkan is a word that means a complex grouping or several things compacted together... just as the nations are.
As for countries, some people have varying ideas but the most commonly held view of "balkan" nations are: Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, and sometimes they throw Greece in as well.
