Zajas Municipality

Zajas is a former municipality located in what is now western North Macedonia, created in a 1996 territorial reorganization and dissolved following a new 2013 Macedonian territorial reorganization, after which it was merged with Kičevo Municipality.

Zajas is also the name of the village where the municipal seat was found.
* Zajas Municipality was part of the Southwestern Statistical Region.
Geography

The municipality bordered

Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality to the west,
Gostivar Municipality to the northeast,
Oslomej Municipality to the east,
Kičevo Municipality to the southeast, and
Drugovo Municipality to the southwest.
Demographics

According to the last national census from 2002, this municipality has 11,605 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups in the municipality include:
*Albanians = 11,308
*Macedonians = 211
*others = 86

The total number of students in the municipality in 2011, in comparison to the total number of students in 2007, declined for 35.5%. Zajas is the second municipality in North Macedonia by the decline of the total number of students.

Zajas Municipality

Geography

Demographics