East Region (North Macedonia)

The east region within North Macedonia

The East Region ( Macedonian Источен регион Istočen region ) is one of the eight statistical regions in the Republic of North Macedonia . It is located in the eastern part of the country and borders Bulgaria . It also shares borders with the regions of Vardar , Skopje , Northeast and Southeast .

Regions in Macedonia do not perform any administrative tasks, but are only there for purely statistical purposes. In some cases, however, they form historical regions that are and were economically and culturally linked.

structure

The East Region is made up of the following 13 Opštini:

population

Štip is one of the largest cities in East-North Macedonia and an important agricultural location in North Macedonia.

population

According to the 2002 census, the population of the East region was 203,213 people.

year	Residents	change
1994	201,525	-
2002	203.213	+1.94%

Biggest places

rank	city	population
1	Štip	40,016
2	Kočani	28,330
3	Probištip	16,193
4th	Sveti Nikole	13,746
5	Delčevo	11,500

Ethnic structure

	number	%
total	203.213	100
Macedonians	188,522	92.77
Roma	6,927	3.40
Turks	2,636	1.29
Wallachians	2,514	1.23
Other	2,614	1.28

Web links

numbers

Final results of the 2002 census (PDF; 2.18 MB; English), published by the Macedonian Statistics Office, last accessed on March 25, 2011
Edition of publications of the Census of population, households and dwellings, 2002 . Selection of various publications of the 2002 census by the Macedonian Statistical Office; Retrieved March 25, 2011

Names

Ministry of Local Self-Government (Macedonian, Albanian); Retrieved March 25, 2011