Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of . Skopje is a city of many cultures and many centuries. The various groups that have controlled the city through its history have each left visible reminders of their reign: multiple…
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Centar and Outer Skopje.

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is the modern commercial and political hub of Skopje, capital of . It is one of the 10 municipalities that make up the City of Skopje.

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consists of the territory of the City of Skopje outside of , the , and . This large and diverse area of the city is generally less densely populated.

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The of Skopje, , is the city's historic centre. First inhabited thousands of years ago, it was an important centre of commerce during Ottoman times when it enjoyed its peak importance.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Karpoš and Matka Canyon.

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is one of the ten municipalities that make of the City of Skopje. It has the largest concentration of places of interest outside the city-centre.

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is a canyon located west of central Skopje, . Aside from being a major attraction for its stunning nature, it is also noted for the numerous important medieval churches and monasteries that are located in and around it.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Toše Proeski Arena and Skopje Fortress.

Stadium
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National Arena Toše Proeski is a sports stadium in Skopje, . It is currently used mostly for football matches, but also for concerts or athletics.

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The , commonly referred to as Kale, is a historic fortress located in the old town of Skopje, the capital of . It is located in Centar municipality and situated on the highest point in the city overlooking the Vardar River.

Museum
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The Mother Teresa Memorial House is a museum dedicated to the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa. It is located in her hometown Skopje, in , where she lived from 1910 to 1928.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gazi Baba and Kisela Voda.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in the City of Skopje, , and the seat of .

Suburb
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is a suburb of the City of Skopje in the municipality of , .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Skopje

Latitude
41.9962° or 41° 59′ 46″ north
Longitude
21.4319° or 21° 25′ 55″ east
Population
423,000
Elevation
247 metres (810 feet)
IATA airport code
SKP
United Nations Location Code
MK SKP
Open location code
8GH3XCWJ+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 170792214
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
785842
Wiki­data ID
Q384
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Satellite Map

Discover Skopje from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Skopje” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Скопие”
  • Achinese: “Skopje”
  • Afrikaans: “Skopje”
  • Albanian: “Shkupi”
  • Amharic: “ስኮፕዬ”
  • Arabic: “أوسكوب”
  • Arabic: “إسكوبية”
  • Arabic: “سكوبيه”
  • Aragonese: “Scopia”
  • Armenian: “Սկոպիե”
  • Armenian: “Սկոպյե”
  • Asturian: “Skopie”
  • Asturian: “Skopje”
  • Avaric: “Скопе”
  • Azerbaijani: “Skopye”
  • Azerbaijani: “Üskub”
  • Balinese: “Skopje”
  • Bashkir: “Скопье”
  • Basque: “Skopje”
  • Belarusian: “Скоп’е”
  • Bengali: “স্কপিয়ে”
  • Betawi: “Skopi”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्कोप्जे”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्कोप्ज़े”
  • Bhojpuri: “स्कोप्ये”
  • Bosnian: “Skoplje”
  • Breton: “Skopje”
  • Bulgarian: “Скопие”
  • Catalan: “Escòpia”
  • Catalan: “Skopje”
  • Cebuano: “Skopje”
  • Central Bikol: “Skopje”
  • Central Kurdish: “سکۆپیە”
  • Chechen: “Скопье”
  • Chinese: “Skopje”
  • Chinese: “史高比耶”
  • Chinese: “斯科普耶”
  • Chinese: “斯科普里”
  • Chinese: “斯高波哲”
  • Church Slavic: “Съкопиѥ”
  • Chuvash: “Скопье”
  • Cornish: “Skopje”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Üsküp”
  • Croatian: “Skoplje”
  • Czech: “Skopje”
  • Danish: “Skopje”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Uskub”
  • Dutch: “Skopje”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسكوبيه”
  • Erzya: “Скопье ош”
  • Esperanto: “Skopjo”
  • Estonian: “Skopje”
  • Faroese: “Skopje”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Skopje”
  • Finnish: “Skopje”
  • French: “Scopie”
  • French: “Skopje”
  • Galician: “Skopje”
  • Georgian: “სკოპიე”
  • German: “Skopje”
  • German: “Skoplje”
  • German: “Uesküb”
  • German: “Üsküb”
  • German: “Скопје”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍀𐌹”
  • Greek: “Σκόπια”
  • Gujarati: “સ્કોપ્જે”
  • Haitian: “Skopje”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Skopje”
  • Hausa: “Skopje”
  • Hebrew: “סקופיה”
  • Hindi: “स्कोपज”
  • Hindi: “स्कोपिये”
  • Hungarian: “Szkopje”
  • Icelandic: “Skopje”
  • Ido: “Skopje”
  • Indonesian: “Skopje”
  • Interlingua: “Skopje”
  • Interlingue: “Skopje”
  • Irish: “Scóipé”
  • Italian: “Scopia”
  • Italian: “Scupi”
  • Italian: “Skopje”
  • Japanese: “スコピエ”
  • Javanese: “Skopje”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕೋ‍ಪಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Скопье қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Скопье”
  • Kirghiz: “Скопье”
  • Komering: “Skopje”
  • Komi: “Скопье”
  • Kongo: “Skopje”
  • Korean: “스코페”
  • Kotava: “Skopje”
  • Kotava: “Skopye”
  • Kurdish: “Skopye”
  • Ladino: “Skopia”
  • Latin: “Scupi”
  • Latvian: “Skopje”
  • Ligurian: “Skopje”
  • Lingala: “Skopye”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Skopje”
  • Lithuanian: “Skopjė”
  • Livvi: “Skopje”
  • Lombard: “Skopje”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Skopje”
  • Luxembourgish: “Skopje”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Scopia”
  • Macedonian: “Skopje”
  • Macedonian: “Скопје”
  • Malagasy: “Skopje”
  • Malay: “Skopje”
  • Malayalam: “സ്കോപിയെ”
  • Maltese: “Skopje”
  • Manx: “Skopje”
  • Maori: “Skopje”
  • Marathi: “स्कोप्ये”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکوپیه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Skopje”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Skopje”
  • Minangkabau: “Skopje”
  • Mingrelian: “სკოპიე”
  • Moksha: “Скопье”
  • Mongolian: “Скопье”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سكوپيا”
  • Nauru: “Skopje”
  • Nepali: “स्कोप्जे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Skopje”
  • Northern Luri: “اسکوپیه”
  • Northern Sami: “Skopje”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skopje”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skopje”
  • Norwegian: “Skopje”
  • Novial: “Skopje”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Skopje”
  • Ossetian: “Скопье”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਕੋਪੀਏ”
  • Papiamento: “Skopje”
  • Persian: “اسکوپیا”
  • Persian: “اسکوپیه”
  • Piemontese: “Skopje”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Skopie”
  • Polish: “Skopje”
  • Portuguese: “Escópia”
  • Portuguese: “Escópie”
  • Portuguese: “Skopie”
  • Portuguese: “Skopje”
  • Pushto: “اسکوپیه”
  • Quechua: “Skopje”
  • Romanian: “Skopje”
  • Russian: “Скопле”
  • Russian: “Скопье”
  • Rusyn: “Скоп’є”
  • Rusyn: “Скопие”
  • Samogitian: “Skuopjė”
  • Sardinian: “Skopje”
  • Scots: “Skopje”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Skopje”
  • Serbian: “Скопље”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skoplje”
  • Shona: “Skopje”
  • Sicilian: “Skopje”
  • Silesian: “Skopje”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪوپجي”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කොපියේ”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කෝපියෝ”
  • Slovak: “Skopje”
  • Slovenian: “Skopje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسکوپیه”
  • Spanish: “Escopia”
  • Spanish: “Skopie”
  • Spanish: “Skopje”
  • Swahili: “Skopje”
  • Swedish: “Skopje”
  • Swiss German: “Skopje”
  • Tagalog: “Skopje”
  • Tajik: “Скопе”
  • Tajik: “Скопйе”
  • Talysh: “Skopije”
  • Talysh: “Skopye”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்காப்ய”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கொப்ஜெ”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கோப்ஜே”
  • Tatar: “Өскеп”
  • Telugu: “స్కాపియో”
  • Thai: “สกอเปีย”
  • Thai: “สโกเปีย”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ཀོཔ་ཇི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Skopje”
  • Turkish: “Üsküp”
  • Turkmen: “Skopýe”
  • Udmurt: “Скопье”
  • Uighur: “سكوپليې”
  • Ukrainian: “Скоп’є”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Skopje”
  • Urdu: “اسکوپیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Skopye”
  • Venetian: “Skopje”
  • Veps: “Skopje”
  • Vietnamese: “Skopje”
  • Vlaams: “Skopje”
  • Vlax Romani: “Skopiye”
  • Volapük: “Skopje”
  • Võro: “Skopje”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Skopje”
  • Welsh: “Skopje”
  • Western Frisian: “Skopje”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکوپ جے”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکوپئے”
  • Wolof: “Skopje”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯科普里”
  • Yakut: “Скопье”
  • Yiddish: “סקאפיע”
  • Yoruba: “Skopje”
  • Yue Chinese: “史高比耶”
  • Zeeuws: “Skopje”
  • Zulu: “i-Skopje”
  • “Scopia”
  • “Skopje”
  • “Skuopjė”
  • “स्कोप्ये”

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