The world has a newly named country, North Macedonia. And that is good news for regional relations and travelers, who are visiting the southeastern corner of Europe in growing numbers.

In February, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” — as the United Nations referred to the Balkan country during its admittance in 1993 — officially became the Republic of North Macedonia.

For many who know this nation in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula simply as “Macedonia,” this may seem like semantics. It is not. Macedonia agreed to change its name to resolve a decades-old dispute with neighboring Greece, and, in return, Greece said it would drop its objection to the neighboring country’s entry into the European Union and NATO. Greece had long opposed the name “Macedonia,” saying it implied territorial aspirations over the northern Greek region of the same name.

For travelers, the end of the dispute means a new passport stamp and a novel reason to discover this nascent, yet ancient land, which is about the size of New Hampshire and borders Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania.