North Macedonia
North Macedonia is a small, landlocked Balkan country known for its mountainous terrain, Byzantine and Ottoman heritage, and surprisingly affordable prices. It offers lake-and-mountain holidays, ancient ruins, vibrant capitals, and excellent food and wine.
Cities & regions
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Bitola is North Macedonia's second city, a town of roughly 70,000 people in the Pelagonia plain in the far southwest, just 15 km from the Greek border and se…
Open guideKumanovo is North Macedonia's third-largest city, sitting about 40 km north of Skopje in the northeastern plain close to the Serbian and Kosovar borders. It…
Open guideOhrid is North Macedonia's most beautiful town, a stone-and-tile old quarter tumbling down a wooded headland into Lake Ohrid, three hours southwest of Skopje…
Open guidePrilep is North Macedonia's fourth-largest city, about 128 km southwest of Skopje in the Pelagonia plain, known as 'the city beneath Marko's Towers' after th…
Open guideSkopje is the capital of North Macedonia, a city of roughly half a million people spread along the Vardar river in a valley beneath Mount Vodno. It is one of…
Open guideTetovo sits in the shadow of the Sar Mountains in northwestern North Macedonia, about 40 km west of Skopje along the E65. It is a working Albanian-majority c…
Open guideVeles is a hillside town in central North Macedonia, roughly 50 minutes by train south of Skopje, built in tiers up both banks of the Vardar where the river…
Open guideŠtip is the largest city in eastern North Macedonia, about 90 km southeast of Skopje at the confluence of the Otinja and Bregalnica rivers, with the ruined I…
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