The Kriva Palanka Municipality ( mk, Општина Крива Паланка ) is in the extreme northeastern part of
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...
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Kriva Palanka
Kriva Palanka ( mk, Крива Паланка ) is a town located in the northeastern part of North Macedonia. It has 14,558 inhabitants. The town of Kriva Palanka is the seat of Kriva Palanka Municipality which has almost 21,000 inhabitants.
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is the town where the municipal seat is found. The municipality is part of the
Northeastern Statistical Region
The Northeastern Statistical Region ( mk, Североисточен Регион; Albanian: Rajoni verilindor) is one of eight arbitrary statistical regions in North Macedonia. It borders Kosovo and Serbia to the north and Bulgaria to the ea ...
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Geography
The municipality borders
Serbia
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to the north,
Bulgaria
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to the east,
Rankovce Municipality to the west, and
Makedonska Kamenica Municipality
Makedonska Kamenica ( mk, Македонска Каменица ) is a municipality in eastern North Macedonia. ''Makedonska Kamenica'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. The municipality is part of Eastern Statistica ...
,
Kratovo Municipality and
Kočani Municipality to the south.
Demographics
According to the 2021 Macedonian census, Municipality of Kriva Palanka has 28,059 residents. Ethnic groups in the municipality:
Twin towns – sister cities
Kriva Palanka is twinned with:
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Bansko
Bansko ( bg, Банско ) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located at the foot of the Pirin Mountains at an elevation of 1200m above sea level. It is a ski resort.
Legends
There are several legends about who founded Bansko. According to o ...
, Bulgaria
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Dupnitsa
Dupnitsa, or Dupnica ( bg, Дупница (previously ), ), is a town in Western Bulgaria. It is at the foot of the highest mountains in the Balkan Peninsula – the Rila Mountains, and about south of the capital Sofia. Dupnitsa is the second l ...
, Bulgaria
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Lugoj
Lugoj (; hu, Lugos; german: Lugosch; sr, Лугош, Lugoš; bg, Лугож; tr, Logoş) is a city in Timiș County, Romania. The Timiș River divides the city into two halves, the so-called "Romanian Lugoj" that spreads on the right bank and t ...
, Romania
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Mława
Mława (; yi, מלאווע ''Mlave'') is a town in north-east Poland with 30,403 inhabitants in 2020. It is the capital of Mława County. It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship.
During the invasion of Poland in 1939, the battle of Mława was ...
, Poland
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Perechyn, Ukraine
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Svidník
Svidník ( hu, Felsővízköz, german: Oberswidnik, rue, Свідник, uk, Свидник) is a town in eastern Slovakia, the capital of the Svidník District in the Prešov Region. It has a population of around 11,000.
There is a monumental ...
, Slovakia
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Vršac
Vršac ( sr-cyr, Вршац, ; hu, Versec; ro, Vârșeț) is a city and the administrative centre of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the city urban area had a population of 35,701, while ...
, Serbia
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Županja
Županja (, hu, Zsupanya, german: Schaupanie) is a town in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 254 km east of Zagreb. It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. It is inhabited by 12,090 people (2011).
Županja lies on the Sa ...
, Croatia
Inhabited places
References
External links
Official website
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Municipalities of North Macedonia