Gazi Baba Municipality
Municipality of Gazi Baba
Општина Гази Баба Komuna e Gazi Babës | |
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City municipality (Urban) | |
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| Coordinates: 42°1′N 21°27′E / 42.017°N 21.450°E | |
| Country |  North Macedonia |
| Region | Skopje Statistical Region |
| Municipal seat | Skopje |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Boris Georgievski (SDSM) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 72,617 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Gazi Baba (Macedonian: , Albanian: Komuna e Gazi Babës) is one of the ten municipalities that create the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.
Name
The name of the municipality comes from the nickname of the Ottoman poet Aşık Çelebi. In Turkish, Gazi means "war veteran" and baba means "father".
Geography
The municipality borders Petrovec Municipality, Studeničani Municipality and Aerodrom Municipality to the south, Centar Municipality, Čair Municipality and Butel Municipality to the west, Lipkovo Municipality to the northeast, and Aračinovo Municipality and Ilinden Municipality to the east.
Demographics
According to the last national census from 2002, the municipality has 72,617 inhabitants making it the most populous municipality in Greater Skopje.[1] Ethnic groups in the municipality include:
- Macedonians = 53,497 (73.67%)
- Albanians = 12,502 (17.21%)
- Serbs = 2,097 (2.9%)
- Roma = 2,082 (2.9%)
- Bosniaks = 710 (1.0%)
- Turks = 606 (0.8%)
- Vlachs = 236 (0.3%)
- others = 887 (1.2%)
References
- ^ 2002 census results in English and Macedonian (PDF)
