Aračinovo municipality

Infobox Municipality in the Republic of Macedonia
municipality_name=Aračinovo municipality
municipality_name_mkd=Општина Арачиново
population=11,597
municipality_center=Aračinovo
status=Rural municipality
area_code=044
car_plates=SK
website=www.opstinaaracinovo.gov.mk/mak/index.asp?lang=2
municipality_location=ArachinovoMap.png coa_pic=MMCA(Arachinovo).png coa_px=80
mayor=Muzafer Bislimi
flag_pic=ArachinovFlag.png flag_px=150
postal_code=1045
area=31.3
density=370.51

Aračinovo ( _mk. Арачиново, audio-IPA|Mk-Arachinovo.ogg| [araˈtʃinɔvɔ] ) is a municipality in the northern Republic of Macedonia. "Aračinovo" is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. It is located in the Skopje statistical region.

Geography

The municipality borders Lipkovo municipality in the north, City of Skopje in the west, Petrovec municipality in the south and Kumanovo municipality in the east.

Demographics

According to the last census in 2002, ref|http://www.answers.com/topic/ara-inovo-municipality the municipality have 11,992 inhabitants, and in the census of 1994 it had 9,960 inhabitants.

The ethnic structure of the municipality is the following: 99.72% are Albanians, 0.05% are Bosniaks, 0.11% are Roms, 0.01% are Vlachs and other.

Inhabited places

The municipality is rural, meaning that all the inhabited places within it are villages. The number of the inhabited places in Aračinovo Municipality is 4.

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Notes

# [http://msed.stat.gov.mk/msed.nsf/cd549cc3f96284dbc1256f2b0026e546/5db5887c1be3440ac1256f3900547f34/$FILE/I1%20Population%2015%20C2002%20123.pdf Official Macedonian National 2002 census data]

ee also

* Aračinovo
* Republic of Macedonia
* Municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia
* Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia

External links

* [http://www.Opstinaaracinovo.gov.mk Official site ov Aračinovo municipality]
* [http://mls.gov.mk/default.asp?id=teritorial&section=2&item=34 Aračinovo municipality on the site of the Macedonian ministry for local self-government]
* [http://www.makedonija.name/municipalities.php?page=aracinovo Aračinovo municipality @ macedonia web site]

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