Grad Skopje · North Macedonia
Skopje population
474,889people · latest figure
Skopje has a population of 474,889, making it the largest place we list in North Macedonia. It is in Grad Skopje.
Skopje holds 26.3% of North Macedonia's 1,804,063 people. The World Gazetteer published 474,889 for Skopje in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.