Tetovo Municipality

Municipality of Tetovo

Општина Тетово
Komuna e Tetovës
Municipality of Tetovo Општина Тетово; Komuna e Tetovës
Urban municipality
	The building of the archives of Tetovo, a department of the State Archive of North Macedonia.
	Flag Coat of arms
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Polog
Municipal center	Tetovo
Government
• Mayor	Bilall Kasami (Lëvizja Besa)
Area
• Total	261.89 km2 (101.12 sq mi)
Population
• Total	84,770
• Density	320/km2 (840/sq mi)
Languages
• primary	Macedonian, Albanian
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+389 044
Car plates	TE
Website	Official Website

Tetovo (Macedonian: Тетово, [ˈtɛtɔvɔ] ^ⓘ; Albanian: Tetova) is a municipality in the northwest part of North Macedonia. Tetovo's municipal seat is located in the town of the same name. Tetovo Municipality is part of the Polog Statistical Region.

Geography

The municipality borders Kosovo to the north and west, Tearce Municipality to the northeast, Jegunovce Municipality to the east, Želino Municipality to the southeast, Brvenica Municipality to the south, and Bogovinje Municipality to the southwest.

History

As a result of the redrawing of municipality borders in 2003, the rural Šipkovica Municipality and Džepčište Municipality were attached to Tetovo Municipality. Without these two municipalities, the population of the Municipality of Tetovo was 65,318 according to the census of 1994, and 70,841 at the last census.^[1] The population of the former Šipkovica Municipality in 1994 was 6,797, and according to the last census was 7,820. The population of the former Džepčište Municipality in 1994 was 7,286, and according to the last census was 7,919. The population of the present-day combined municipality is 86,580.

On 26 November 2019, an earthquake struck Albania and Tetovo Municipality held 2 days of mourning for the earthquake victims and sent humanitarian aid and 500,000 denars for relief efforts.^[2]^[3]

Demographics

The number of the inhabited places in the municipality is 20. There is one city and 19 villages. According to the 2021 North Macedonia census, the population of the municipality is 84,770.^[4] Ethnic groups in the municipality include:

	2002		2021
	Number	%	Number	%
TOTAL	86,580	100	84,770	100
Albanians	60,886	70.32	60,460	71.32
Macedonians	20,053	23.16	15,529	18.32
Roma	2,357	2.73	1,885	2.22
Turks	1,882	2.17	1,746	2.06
Serbs	604	0.7	256	0.3
Bosniaks	156	0.18	189	0.22
Vlachs	15	0.01	11	0.01
Other / Undeclared / Unknown	627	0.73	326	0.4
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources			4,368	5.15
Source: Census 2021 - first dataset State Statistical Office of North Macedonia

Inhabited places

There are 20 inhabited places in this municipality.

Inhabited Places	Total	Macedonians	Albanians	Turks	Roma	Vlachs	Serbs	Bosniaks	Others
Tetovo Municipality	84,770	15,529	60,460	1,746	1,885	11	256	189	4,705
Bozovce	174	-	137	-	-	-	-	-	37
Brodec	734	-	651	-	-	-	-	-	83
Džepčište	3.338	33	3.198	1	-	1	-	-	105
Fališe	612	552	37	1	-	-	5	-	18
Gajre	633	-	607	-	-	-	-	-	26
Ǵermo	569	-	538	-	-	-	-	-	31
Golema Rečica	3.603	1	3.422	-	-	-	-	-	181
Jedoarce	16	5	11	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lavce	313	-	311	-	-	-	-	-	2
Lisec	384	5	340	-	-	-	-	-	39
Mala Rečica	2.468	1	2.337	-	-	-	-	-	130
Otunje	3	2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
Poroj	2.653	2	2.558	-	-	-	-	1	92
Saraḱino	1.153	791	277	-	8	-	2	-	72
Selce	2.239	-	2.149	-	-	-	-	-	90
Setole	22	19	3	-	-	-	1	-	-
Šipkovica	1.540	-	1.483	-	-	-	-	-	57
Tetovo	63.176	14.116	41.356	1.745	1.877	10	248	188	3.616
Vejce	848	2	804	-	-	-	-	-	42
Vešala	291	-	241	-	-	-	-	-	50