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Demir Kapija Municipality

local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ2370973 ↗
Source-derived summary

Demir Kapija (Macedonian: Демир Капија [ˌdɛmir ˈkapija] ) is a municipality in southern part of North Macedonia. Demir Kapija, which means "iron door" or "iron gate" in Turkish, is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Demir Kapija Municipality is part of the Vardar Statistical Region.

Geography

The Došnica river which springs from Mount Kožuf is the source of drinking water and hydroelectric power production (at Čiflik) for the municipality.

The municipality borders

Negotino Municipality to the northwest,

Konče Municipality to the northeast,

Valandovo Municipality to the east,

Gevgelija Municipality to the southeast, and

Kavadarci Municipality to the southwest.

Demographics

According to the 2021 North Macedonia census, this municipality has 3,777 inhabitants.

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“Demir Kapija Municipality” enters the record as local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Demir, Kapija and Municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Demir Kapija Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.