Karpoš () is a neighbourhood in the

Karpoš Municipality Karpoš Municipality () is one of the ten municipalities that make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia. Geography Karpoš borders: * Saraj Municipality and Ǵorče Petrov Municipality to the west, * Čučer-S ...

, City of Skopje,

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

, and the seat of Karpoš Municipality. It is named after the famous Karposh hero.

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Karpoš had 61,288 residents with the following ethnic composition:Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
/ref> *Macedonians 49,483 *Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 5,238 *Albanians 2,203 *Serbs 1,593 *Roma 597 *Vlachs 477 *Turks 430 *Bosniaks 185 *Others 1,082 According to the 2002 census, the neighbourhood had a total of 37,162 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the town include:Macedonian Census (2002)
''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''
The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 64. * Macedonians 33,948 *

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian lan ...

1,503 *

Vlachs Vlach ( ), also Wallachian and many other variants, is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula ...

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Albanians The Albanians are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, Albanian culture, culture, Albanian history, history and Albanian language, language. They are the main ethnic group of Albania and Kosovo, ...

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Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic lang ...

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Bosniaks The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

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Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnic groups * Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin ** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities ** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom * Romanians (Romanian ...

54 *Others 859

Sports

The local football club is

FK Lokomotiva Skopje FK Lokomotiva Skopje () is a football club based in the Karpoš neighborhood of Skopje, North Macedonia. They are currently competing in the OFS Skopje. History The club was founded in 1954, as the railway club, therefore it was sometimes calle ...

who play in the Lokomotiva Stadium.

References

Neighbourhoods in Karpoš Municipality Neighbourhoods of Skopje {{Karpoš-geo-stub