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Turks in North Macedonia
 On municipal level  On settlement level | |
| Total population | |
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| 77,959 (2002 census)[1] 3.8% of total population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam |
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Turks in North Macedonia, also known as Turkish Macedonians and Macedonian Turks, (Macedonian: Македонски Турци, romanized: Makedonski Turci, Turkish: Makedonya Türkleri) are the ethnic Turks who constitute the third largest ethnic group in the Republic of North Macedonia.[1] According to the 2002 census, there were 77,959 Turks living in the country, forming a minority of some 3.8% of the population.[2] The community forms a majority in Centar Župa and Plasnica.[1]
The Turkish community claim higher numbers than the census shows, somewhere between 170,000 and 200,000.[2][3] There are additionally roughly 100,000 Torbeš and some of them still maintain a strong affiliation to Turkish identity.[4]
- ^ a b c Republic of Macedonia State Statistical Office 2005, 34.
- ^ a b Knowlton 2005, 66.
- ^ Abrahams 1996, 53.
- ^ Skutsch, Carl (7 November 2013). Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Routledge. ISBN 9781135193881. Retrieved 19 August 2017 – via Google Books.
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