Zajas municipality
Општина Зајас
Komuna e Zajazit
Municipality
Flag of Zajas municipality
Flag
Official seal of Zajas municipality
Seal
Location of Zajas municipality
CountryNorth Macedonia
regionSouthwestern Statistical Region
Municipal seatZajas
Population
 • Total11,605
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Split fromKičevo Municipality in 1996
Merged intoKičevo Municipality in 2013

Zajas (Macedonian: Зајасⓘ, Albanian: Zajaz) is a former municipality in western North Macedonia, created in the 1996 territorial organisation, dissolved following 2013 Macedonian new territorial organisation after it was merged with Kičevo Municipality.[1]

Geography

The municipality bordered

Demographics

According to the last national census from 2002, this municipality has 11,605 inhabitants.[2]

  • Ethnic groups in the municipality include:
    • Albanians = 11,308 (97.4%)
    • Macedonians = 211 (1.8%)
    • others = 86 (0.7%)

The total number of students in the municipality in 2011, in comparison to the total number of students in 2007, declined for 35.5%. Zajas is the second municipality in North Macedonia by the decline of the total number of students.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". sec.mk. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ 2002 census results in English and Macedonian (PDF)
  3. ↑ Во основните училишта за 10 години дури 46.500 ученици помалку
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