Rakitnica ( mk, Ракитница) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

of Demir Hisar,

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Demographics

in the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, the village had 33 households and 1 bachelor. The onomastics consisted mostly of Christian Slavic anthroponyms, with around a fifth being Albanian. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Rakitnica was inhabited by 255 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900).
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics
'. Sofia. p. 236. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 37 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 93. * Macedonians 37

References

Villages in Demir Hisar Municipality {{DemirHisar-geo-stub