Macedonia: Municipal flags

Last modified: 2008-02-23 by ivan sache
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• Legislation on the local subdivisions
• The Macedonian municipalities
  • List of the municipalities (Latin alphabet)
  • List of the municipalities (Cyrillic alphabet)
• Flags of former municipalities
• List of the Macedonian statistical regions

See also:

• Macedonia
• Clickable map of Macedonia

Other site of interest:

• Macedonian municipal heraldry by Jovan Jonovski

Legislation on the local subdivisions

According to the legislation on the local subdivisions (1997) every municipality is entitled to adopt its own coat of arms and flag. Therefore, all municipalities that have adopted a coat of arms, as a rule, adopted also a flag. In most cases it was a monocoloured flag (mostly red) with the coat of arms in the middle.

Jovan Jonovski, 9 September 2001

Article 10.
Coats of arms and flags of the municipalities.

(1) A municipality may have its coat of arms and its flag.
(2) The coat of arms and the flag of a municipality (henceforward: The coat of arms and the flag), are different from the coat of arms and the flag of the Republic of Macedonia and different from the coats of arms and the flags of other municipalities and the City of Skopje.
(3) The coat of arms and the flag are different also from the coats of arms and the flags of an other state, a unit of local self- government in an other state and an international organization.
(4) The mode and procedure to determine the coat of arms and the flag are prescribed in the statutes [of each local unit].
(5) The Ministry responsible for the local self-government shall maintain the register of the coats of arms and the flags of the municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia.
(6) The coat of arms and the flag may be used after they are registered in the register from paragraph (5) of this article.
(7) The Minister responsible for the local self-government shall prescribe the contents and maintenance rules for the maintenance of the register from paragraph (5) of the article.

Translated by Željko Heimer, 22 June 2002

The Macedonian municipalities

There are currently 84 municipalities (opštini) in Macedonia, as listed on the website of the Ministry of Local Self-Government (page no longer online). The Law on Territorial Organization passed on 11 August 2004 and published in the official gazette on 16 August 2004 abolished the previous 123 municipalities established by the Law on Territorial Division in September 1996.

List of the municipalities (Latin alphabet)

(Information on the flag is available for the municipalities marked with an asterisk.)

List of the municipalities (Cyrillic alphabet)

(Information on the flag is available for the municipalities marked with an asterisk.)

Ivan Sache, 5 June 2006

Flags of former municipalities

An earlier page of the website of the Ministry of Local Self-Government (no longer available) showed the flags of some municipalities. Some of those municipalities have lost their status in August 2004 and it is not known if they still use the flags shown on the source website:

Ivan Sache, 5 June 2006

List of the Macedonian statistical regions

Macedonia is divided in eight arbitrary statistical regions:

• Eastern Region
• Northeastern Region
• Pelagonia Region
• Polog Region
• Skopje Region
• Southeastern Region
• Southwestern Region
• Vardar Region

Ivan Sache, 29 March 2007