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MINISTRY OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT CITIZENS & THE MUNICIPALITY DECENTRALIZATION LETíS DECIDE FOR OURSELVES MUNICIPALITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Area Populated Name of Municipality Population in km2 areas 1 ARACINOVO 11,597 31.30 4 2 BEROVO 13,941 598.07 9 3 BITOLA 95,385 787.95 66 4 BOGDANCI 8,707 114.54 4 5 BOSILOVO 14,260 161.99 16 6 BRVENICA 15,855 164.30 10 7 VALANDOVO 11,890 331.40 29 8 VASILEVO 12,122 230.40 18 9 VEVCANI 2,433 22.80 1 10 VELES 55,108 427.45 29 11 VINICA 19,938 432.67 16 12 VRANESTICA 1,322 109.13 15 13 VRAPCISTE 25,399 157.98 15 14 GEVGELIJA 22,988 483.43 17 15 GOSTIVAR 81,042 513.39 35 16 GRADSKO 3,760 236.19 16 17 DEBAR 19,542 145.67 18 18 DEBARCA 5,507 425.39 30 19 DELCEVO 17,505 422.39 22 20 DEMIR KAPIJA 4,545 311.06 15 21 DEMIR HISAR 9,497 480.13 41 22 DOJRAN 3,426 129.16 13 23 DOLNENI 13,568 412.43 37 24 DRUGOVO 3,249 383.24 28 25 ZELINO 24,390 201.04 18 26 ZAJAS 11,605 161.08 13 27 ZELENIKOVO 4,077 176.95 14 28 ZRNOVCI 3,264 55.82 3 29 ILINDEN 15,894 97.02 12 30 JEGUNOVCE 10,790 176.93 17 31 KAVADARCI 38,741 992.44 40 32 BOGOVINJE 28,997 141.65 14 33 KARBINCI 4,012 229.70 29 34 KICEVO 30,138 49.14 7 35 KONCE 3,536 233.05 14 36 KOCANI 38,092 360.36 28 37 KRATOVO 10,441 375.44 31 38 KRIVA PALANKA 20,820 480.81 34 39 KRIVOGASTANI 6,150 93.57 13 40 KRUSEVO 9,684 190.68 19 41 KUMANOVO 105,484 509.48 48 42 LIPKOVO 27,058 267.82 22 43 LOZOVO 2,858 166.32 11 MAVROVO I 44 ROSTUSA 8,618 663.19 42 2 45 M. KAMENICA 8,110 190.37 9 46 MAKEDONSKI BROD 7,141 888.97 51 47 MOGILA 6,710 255.62 23 48 NEGOTINO 19,212 426.46 19 49 NOVACI 3,549 753.53 41 50 NOVO SELO 11,567 237.83 16 51 OSLOMEJ 10,420 121.09 16 52 OHRID 55,749 389.93 29 53 PETROVEC 8,255 201.93 16 54 PEHCEVO 5,517 208.20 7 55 PLASNICA 4,545 54.44 4 56 PRILEP 76,768 1194.44 59 57 PROBISTIP 16,193 325.57 36 58 RADOVIS 28,244 497.48 36 59 RANKOVCE 4,144 240.71 18 60 RESEN 16,825 550.77 44 61 ROSOMAN 4,141 132.90 10 62 SVETI NIKOLE 18,497 482.89 33 63 SOPISTE 5,656 222.10 13 64 STARO NAGORICANE 4,840 433.41 39 65 STRUGA 63,376 483.00 51 66 STRUMICA 54,676 321.49 25 67 STUDENICANI 17,246 276.16 19 68 TEARCE 22,454 136.54 13 69 TETOVO 86,580 261.89 20 70 CENTAR ZUPA 6,519 107.21 23 71 CASKA 7,673 819.45 42 CESINOVO- 72 OBLESEVO 7,490 132.20 14 73 CUCER - SANDEVO 8,493 240.78 12 74 STIP 47,796 583.24 44 75 AERODROM 72,009 21.85 1 76 BUTEL 37,371 54.79 4 77 GAZI BABA 72,617 110.86 13 78 GORCE PETROV 41,634 66.93 6 79 KARPOS 59,666 35.21 2 80 KISELA VODA 57,236 34.24 2 81 SARAJ 35,408 229.06 22 82 CENTAR 45,362 7.52 1 83 CAIR 64,823 3.52 1 84 SUTO ORIZARI 20,800 7.48 1 CITY OF SKOPJE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Population - 506 926 Population - 2 022 547 Area - 571 km2 Area - 25 713 km2 3 CITIZENS HAVE A GUARANTEED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT THE MUNICIPALITY IS A LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT UNIT THE LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IS TERRITORIAL- LY ORGANISED IN 84 MUNICIPALITIES, OF WHICH 10 ARE IN THE CITY OF SKOPJE. ALL MUNICIPALITIES HAVE EQUAL COMPETENCES THE MUNICIPALITY PERFORMS ITS TASKS THROUGH ORGANS ELECTED DIRECTLY BY THE CITIZENS CITIZENS EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT DIRECTLY AND THROUGH THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE ORGANS OF THE MUNICIPALITY THE CITY OF SKOPJE IS A PARTICULAR LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT UNIT WHERE CITIZENS FULFIL THEIR COMMON NEEDS AND INTERESTS ARISING FROM THE CHARACTER OF THE CITY OF SKOPJE AS THE CAPITAL OF REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 4 KEY FACTS ABOUT THE MUNICIPALITIES • The biggest municipality in the Republic of Macedonia by population is Kumanovo, with 105,484 inhabitants. • Vranestica has the least population, with 1,322 inhabitants and Vevcani, with 2,433 inhabitants. • Prilep is the biggest municipality by territory, 1,198 square kilometres. • The smallest municipality by territory is Vevcani, 23 square kilometres. • Out of the municipalities in the city of Skopje, the biggest municipality by population is Gazi Baba, with 72,617 inhabitants, whereas the smallest one is Suto Orizari, 20,800 inhabitants. • The biggest municipality in Skopje by territory is Saraj, 229 square kilometres, the smallest being Cair, 3.5 square kilometres. Out of 84 municipalities: • there are 16 with less than 5,000 inhabitants; • 16 municipalities, 5,000 - 10,000 inhabitants; • 21 municipalities, 10,000 - 20,000 inhabitants; • 17 municipalities, 20,000 - 50,0000 inhabitants; • 13 municipalities, 50,000 - 100,000 inhabitants; • Only one municipality, Kumanovo, has over 100,000 inhabitants. In the Republic of Macedonia, there is a total of 1,767 populated areas. Bitola is the biggest municipality by the number of populated areas, a total of 66. In 32 municipalities, beside the Macedonian, another official language and alphabet in use is the one of the ethnic community represented by over 20% of the population. • In 28 of these municipalities, both Macedonian and Albanian are official languages, • in 4 municipalities, Macedonian and Turkish, • in 1 municipality, Macedonian and Serbian, and • in one, Macedonian and Roma languages. In 19 of these 32 municipalities, the representatives of the non-majority communities at central level, are represented by over 50%. Those municipalities are: Aracinovo, Brvenica, Vrapciste, Gostivar, Debar, Zelino, Zajas, Bogovinje, Lipkovo, Oslomej, Plasnica, Struga, Studenicani, Tearce, Tetovo, Centar Zupa, Saraj, Cair and Suto Orizari. The regulations related to culture, use of alphabet and languages spoken by less than 20% of the citizens in the municipality, the determining and the use of the coat of arms and the flag of the municipality are adopted by majority of votes from the present Council members, with majority of votes of the present Council members from communities which are not the majority population in the municipality (so-called “Badinter majority”). The so-called “Badinter majority” is used for determining names of streets, squares, and bridges. 5 6 Total number of population of the Republic of Macedonia according to the declared ethnic affiliation, by municipality Name of No. Macedonians Albanians Turks Romas Vlachs Serbs Bosniaks Other municipality Total Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % R. MACEDONIA 2022547 1297981 64.18 509083 25.17 77959 3.85 53879 2.66 9695 0.48 35939 1.78 17018 0.84 20993 1.04 1 ARACINOVO 11597 596 5.14 10879 93.81 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.01 10 0.09 65 0.56 46 0.40 2 BEROVO 13941 13335 95.65 0 0.00 91 0.65 459 3.29 6 0.04 20 0.14 3 0.02 27 0.19 3 BITOLA 95385 84616 88.71 4164 4.37 1610 1.69 2613 2.74 1270 1.33 541 0.57 21 0.02 550 0.58 4 BOGDANCI 8707 8093 92.95 2 0.02 54 0.62 1 0.01 5 0.06 525 6.03 0 0.00 27 0.31 5 BOSILOVO 14260 13649 95.72 0 0.00 495 3.47 24 0.17 0 0.00 8 0.06 0 0.00 84 0.59 6 BRVENICA 15855 5949 37.52 9770 61.62 2 0.01 0 0.00 0 0.00 78 0.49 1 0.01 55 0.35 7 VALANDOVO 11890 9830 82.67 0 0.00 1333 11.21 32 0.27 1 0.01 639 5.37 1 0.01 54 0.45 8 VASILEVO 12122 9958 82.15 0 0.00 2095 17.28 5 0.04 1 0.01 4 0.03 1 0.01 58 0.48 9 VEVCANI 2433 2419 99.42 3 0.12 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.04 3 0.12 0 0.00 7 0.29 10 VELES 55108 46767 84.86 2299 4.17 1724 3.13 800 1.45 343 0.62 540 0.98 2406 4.37 229 0.42 11 VINICA 19938 18261 91.59 0 0.00 272 1.36 1230 6.17 121 0.61 32 0.16 0 0.00 22 0.11 12 VRANESTICA 1322 1033 78.14 10 0.76 276 20.88 0 0.00 0 0.00 2 0.15 0 0.00 1 0.08 13 VRAPCISTE 25399 1041 4.10 21101 83.08 3134 12.34 0 0.00 0 0.00 4 0.02 8 0.03 111 0.44 14 GEVGELIJA 22988 22258 96.82 8 0.03 31 0.13 13 0.06 214 0.93 367 1.60 5 0.02 92 0.40 15 GOSTIVAR 81042 15877 19.59 54038 66.68 7991 9.86 2237 2.76 15 0.02 160 0.20 39 0.05 685 0.85 16 GRADSKO 3760 2924 77.77 125 3.32 71 1.89 127 3.38 0 0.00 23 0.61 465 12.37 25 0.66 17 DEBAR 19542 3911 20.01 11348 58.07 2684 13.73 1080 5.53 2 0.01 22 0.11 3 0.02 492 2.52 18 DEBARCA 5507 5324 96.68 153 2.78 2 0.04 0 0.00 1 0.02 8 0.15 0 0.00 19 0.35 19 DELCEVO 17505 16637 95.04 7 0.04 122 0.70 651 3.72 4 0.02 35 0.20 0 0.00 49 0.28 20 DEMIR KAPIJA 4545 3997 87.94 23 0.51 344 7.57 16 0.35 0 0.00 132 2.90 1 0.02 32 0.70 21 DEMIR HISAR 9497 9179 96.65 232 2.44 35 0.37 11 0.12 7 0.07 13 0.14 2 0.02 18 0.19 22 DOJRAN 3426 2641 77.09 17 0.50 402 11.73 59 1.72 3 0.09 277 8.09 2 0.06 25 0.73 23 DOLNENI 13568 4871 35.90 3616 26.65 2597 19.14 13 0.10 0 0.00 16 0.12 2380 17.54 75 0.55 24 DRUGOVO 3249 2784 85.69 155 4.77 292 8.99 1 0.03 0 0.00 8 0.25 0 0.00 9 0.28 25 ZELINO 24390 71 0.29 24195 99.20 2 0.01 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.00 5 0.02 116 0.48 26 ZAJAS 11605 211 1.82 11308 97.44 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 6 0.05 0 0.00 80 0.69 27 ZELENIKOVO 4077 2522 61.86 1206 29.58 1 0.02 92 2.26 1 0.02 45 1.10 191 4.68 19 0.47 28 ZRNOVCI 3264 3247 99.48 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 13 0.40 2 0.06 0 0.00 2 0.06 29 ILINDEN 15894 13959 87.83 352 2.21 17 0.11 428 2.69 1 0.01 912 5.74 0 0.00 225 1.42 30 JEGUNOVCE 10790 5963 55.26 4642 43.02 4 0.04 41 0.38 0 0.00 109 1.01 1 0.01 30 0.28 31 KAVADARCI 38741 37499 96.79 2 0.01 167 0.43 679 1.75 27 0.07 218 0.56 4 0.01 145 0.37 32 BOGOVINJE 28997 37 0.13 27614 95.23 1183 4.08 5 0.02 0 0.00 1 0.00 9 0.03 148 0.51 33 KARBINCI 4012 3200 79.76 0 0.00 728 18.15 2 0.05 54 1.35 12 0.30 0 0.00 16 0.40 34 KICEVO 30138 16140 53.55 9202 30.53 2430 8.06 1630 5.41 76 0.25 86 0.29 7 0.02 567 1.88 35 KONCE 3536 3009 85.10 0 0.00 521 14.73 0 0.00 0 0.00 3 0.08 0 0.00 3 0.08 36 KOCANI 38092 35472 93.12 1 0.00 315 0.83 1951 5.12 194 0.51 67 0.18 2 0.01 90 0.24 37 KRATOVO 10441 10231 97.99 0 0.00 8 0.08 151 1.45 1 0.01 33 0.32 0 0.00 17 0.16 KRIVA 38 PALANKA 20820 19998 96.05 0 0.00 2 0.01 668 3.21 3 0.01 103 0.49 2 0.01 44 0.21 39 KRIVOGASTANI 6150 6126 99.61 0 0.00 0 0.00 8 0.13 0 0.00 6 0.10 0 0.00 10 0.16 40 KRUSEVO 9684 6081 62.79 2064 21.31 315 3.25 0 0.00 1020 10.53 38 0.39 137 1.41 29 0.30 41 KUMANOVO 105484 63746 60.43 27290 25.87 292 0.28 4256 4.03 147 0.14 9062 8.59 20 0.02 671 0.64 42 LIPKOVO 27058 169 0.62 26360 97.42 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 0.00 370 1.37 6 0.02 152 0.56 43 LOZOVO 2858 2471 86.46 35 1.22 157 5.49 0 0.00 122 4.27 27 0.94 34 1.19 12 0.42 MAVROVO I 44 ROSTUSA 8618 4349 50.46 1483 17.21 2680 31.10 10 0.12 0 0.00 6 0.07 31 0.36 59 0.68 45 M.