title: Plasnica Municipality
text: # Plasnica Municipality
  
  Plasnica (Macedonian: Пласница (help·info), Turkish: Plasnitsa) is a municipality in western North Macedonia. Plasnica is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Plasnica Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. It is particularly noteworthy in having a mostly ethnic Turkish population.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The municipality borders Makedonski Brod Municipality to the northeast, Kruševo Municipality to the southeast, Kičevo Municipality to the southwest, west and northwest.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  According to the last national census from 2021, this municipality has 4,222 inhabitants.
  
  | | 2002 | 2002 | 2021 | 2021 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Number | % | Number | % |
  | TOTAL | 4,545 | 100 | 4,222 | 100 |
  | Turks | 4,446 | 97.8 | 4,101 | 97.13 |
  | Macedonians | 34 | 0.7 | 9 | 0.21 |
  | Albanians | / | / | 13 | 0.31 |
  | others | 65 | 1.4 | 2 | 0.05 |
  | Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | n/a | n/a | 97 | 2.3 |
  