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Krivogaštani Municipality

local administrative unit (opština) in North Macedonia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ2018930 ↗
Source-derived summary

Krivogaštani Municipality (Macedonian: ) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia. Krivogaštani is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is located. This municipality is part of the Pelagonia Statistical Region.

Geography

The municipality borders the Kruševo Municipality to the west, the Dolneni Municipality to the north, the Prilep Municipality to the east, and the Mogila Municipality to the south.

Demographics

According to the 2021 North Macedonia census, the municipality has 5,167 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality include:

Inhabited places

The main village of Krivogaštani is located along the main route from Prilep to Kruševo.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Krivogaštani, Municipality and local can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Krivogaštani 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.