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Lipkovo Липково Likovë
Village
LipkovoLocation within North Macedonia
Coordinates: 42°09′N 21°35′E / 42.150°N 21.583°E / 42.150; 21.583
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Northeastern
Municipality	Lipkovo
Population
• Total	2,138
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Car plates	KU
Website	.

Lipkovo (Macedonian: Липково, Albanian: Likovë) is a village in North Macedonia. It is the seat of Lipkovo Municipality.

History

According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, 490 inhabitants lived in Lipkovo, 250 Muslim Albanians and 240 Bulgarian Exarchists.

Lipkovo was a central strategic village during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia between the Albanian NLA and the Macedonian Army. The Lipkovo crisis took place here during the conflict, which was an NLA victory. Today, it has a dam which supplies water and electricity to the Kumanovo region.

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Lipkovo had 2,138 residents with the following ethnic composition:

• Albanians 2,104
• Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 32
• Others 2

According to the 2002 census, the town had a total of 2644 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:

• Albanians 2631
• Macedonians 2
• Others 11

Sister Towns

• Mustafakemalpaşa, the main town of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey.

References

1. Vasil Kanchov. "Macedonia. "Ethnography and statistics." Sofia, 1900, p. 217
2. Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021

External links

• Municipal flag of Lipkovo

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• Villages in Lipkovo Municipality
• Albanian communities in North Macedonia
• Northeastern Region, North Macedonia geography stubs