Southwest Region (North Macedonia)

The location of the southwest region within North Macedonia

The Southwest region ( Albanian Rajoni jugperëndimor ; Macedonian Југозападен регион Jugozapaden region ) is one of the eight statistical regions , the highest administrative level in the Republic of North Macedonia . The administrative unit is divided into 13 opštini , which represent the lowest administrative level. The region is located in the southwest of the country and borders on Lake Ohrid and Albania . Neighboring regions are Polog in the north, Skopje and Vardar in the northeast and Pelagonia in the east .

Regions in North Macedonia do not fulfill 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 south-west region is made up of the following 13 opštini:

population

Ohrid is the largest city in the region and at the same time its cultural, economic and political center.

The black one at Struga

population

year	Residents	change
1994	211,046	-
2002	221,651	+ 5.89%

Biggest places

rank	city	Residents
1	Ohrid	42.003
2	Kičevo	30,138
3	Struga	16,559
4th	Debar	14,561
5	Zajas	4,712

Ethnic structure

The Macedonians represent the largest ethnic group , followed by the Albanians and Turks .

	number	%
All in all	221,651	100
Macedonians	107,565	48.52
Albanians	82,418	37.18
Turks	21,266	9.59
Roma	2,813	1.26
Other	4,285	1.93

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numbers

Final results of the 2002 census (2.18 MB; English; PDF), 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 Statistics Office, last accessed on March 25, 2011

Names

Ministry of Local Self-Government (Macedonian and Albanian), last accessed March 25, 2011