Municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia
The Municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia are first-order administrative divisions. In February 2013, the Republic of Macedonia was reorganised into 80 municipalities (Macedonian: општини, opštini; singular: општина, opština); 10 of the municipalities constitute the City of Skopje (or Greater Skopje), a distinct unit of local self-government and the country's capital.
Most of the current municipalities were unaltered or merely amalgamated from the previous 123 municipalities established in September 1996; others were consolidated and their borders changed. Prior to this, local government was organised into 34 administrative districts, communes, or counties (also opštini). In 2004 they were reduced to 84 and in 2013 the Municipalities Drugovo, Zajas, Oslomej and Vraneštica were merged into the Kičevo Municipality.
In turn, Macedonia is subdivided into eight statistical regions (регион, regioni), based on the prior municipal/county framework; one of these regions, Skopje, encompasses Greater Skopje and the surrounding area.
Map of the municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia, with the city of Skopje indicated on the map as 1. The map shows the rural and the urban municipalities. The numbers of the map correspond with the numbers of the municipalities indicated to the left of the municipality name in the table below the maps, the second one is a map of the City of Skopje municipalities, the numbers of this municipalities are shown as 1, x, where "x" is the number of the appropriate municipality.
In March 2013, the following municipalities merged with Kičevo:
^ Municipal areas are summations of component areas. As of the 2002 census, area figures for Aerodrom and Butel municipalities are unavailable and included in those of other municipalities in Skopje region
^ Municipalities, 10 in total, forming the City of Skopje (Град Скопје)
^ Hierarchical Administrative Subdivision Codes (HASC)
^ The boundaries for Debar municipality in the Southwestern region were revised in 2004 to include some territory of Rostuša municipality, the predecessor of Mavrovo and Rostuša municipality, in Polog region
^ Total area includes 577 km2 (223 sq mi) of inland water not distributed by municipality/region
...
Wikipedia