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Top 20 most populous states, provinces and regions · 🇲🇰 North Macedonia

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Why these 20

Population of each country's first-level regions (states, provinces, prefectures, oblasts) from Wikidata, which takes it from census offices. Where Wikidata has figures for several years the highest is used, which is usually the latest census; regions that shrink may show an older, larger figure.

  1. 1 C

    City of Skopje

    administrative division within the Republic of North Macedonia constituted of 10 municipalities

    545,228

  2. 2 K

    Kumanovo Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    105,484

  3. 3 B

    Bitola Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    85,164

  4. 4 T

    Tetovo Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    84,770

  5. 5 A

    Aerodrom Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia, one of the ten municipalities of the City of Skopje

    77,735

  6. 6 G

    Gazi Baba Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia, one of the ten municipalities of the City of Skopje administrative unit

    69,626

  7. 7 P

    Prilep Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    69,025

  8. 8 K

    Karpoš Municipality

    municipality of North Macedonia

    63,760

  9. 9 Č

    Čair Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia, one of the ten municipalities of the city of Skopje

    62,586

  10. 10 K

    Kisela Voda Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia, one of the ten municipalities of the city of Skopje

    61,965

  11. 11 G

    Gostivar Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    59,770

  12. 12 O

    Ohrid Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    51,428

  13. 13 S

    Struga Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    50,980

  14. 14 S

    Strumica Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    49,995

  15. 15 V

    Veles Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    48,463

  16. 16 Š

    Štip Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    44,866

  17. 17 Ǵ

    Ǵorče Petrov Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia, one of the ten municipalities of the city of Skopje

    44,844

  18. 18 C

    Centar Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia, one of the ten municipalities of the city of Skopje

    43,893

  19. 19 K

    Kičevo Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

    39,669

  20. 20 S

    Saraj Municipality

    local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia, one of the ten municipalities of the city of Skopje

    38,399

How it is measured

Wikidata: the first-level divisions each country lists as its own (P150, contains the administrative territorial entity) that have a population (P1082) and no dissolution date; grouped by country, the world view is built from the countries.

References

  1. Wikidata query: first-level regions by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 04:46 UTC.