Facts and symbols of the City of Skopje

The City of Skopje is the capital of the Republic of Northern Macedonia.

City of Skopje is the main and largest city in Macedonia, which is also an administrative-political, economic, cultural and educational-scientific center. It is located in the northern part of the country, and in the middle part of the Balkan Peninsula spreads on the banks of the Vardar River.

Symbols

The Coat of Arms of the City of Skopje has the form of a shield, whose upper side is semi arch turned inwards, the left and the right upper corner of the shield falls in two slanting lines, whereas the bottom sides represent outwads round arches that end with a peak in the middle of the bottom span. The space around the shield contains: The Stone Bridge with the Vardar River, the fortress Kale and the snowy peaks of the mountain Shar.

 

The Flag of the City of Skopje is red, and in its left upper quarter, next to the spear lies its coat of arms printed in yellow.

 

Facts

MOUNTAINS

  • Vodno with its summit Krstovar (1.066m)
  • The Massive Jakupica - Kradzica with its summit Solunska Glava - Mokro (2.450m) and Ubava(2.533m)
  • Osoj 1.506m
  • Zheden 1.260m
  • Skopska Crna Gora with its summit Ramno (1.561m)

RIVERS

  • Vardar (from the Vrutok spring to its estuary in the Aegean Sea - 410,5km)
  • Treska (130km)
  • Lepenec (65km)
  • Pchinja (136,4km)
  • Kadina Reka (33,3km)
  • Markova Reka (29km)
  • Pateshka Reka

ARTIFICIAL LAKES

  • Matka and Treska

RAVINES

  • Matka, Kachanichka, Taorska, Zedenska, Dervenska and Badarska 

CAVES

  • in the River Treska canyon
  • few caves at N.Breznica
  • below Solunska Glava

GLACIER LAKES

  • Salakovski Lakes on the Jakupica Mountain

GEOGRAPHIC LATITUDE

  • 42º00' - north geographic latitude 

GEOGRAPHIC LONGITUDE

  • 21º26' - east geographic longitude

ABOVE SEA LEVEL HEIGHT

  • Skopje covers an area of 1818km2, 23km in longitude and 9km in latitude and is situated on a height of 245 metres above the sea level 

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE

  • 13,5ºC/56ºF

AVERAGE FOGGY DAYS

  • 71,4 days

RAINFALLS

  • average per year 940mm/11 days

NUMBER OF INHABITANTS (CENSUS 2002)

  • Skopje - 506 926
  • Aerodrom - 72 009
  • Butel - 36 154
  • Gazi Baba - 72 617
  • Gjorche Petrov - 41 634
  • Karposh - 59 666
  • Kisela Voda - 57 236
  • Saraj - 35 408
  • Centar - 45 412
  • Chair - 64 773
  • Shuto Orizari - 22 017