twelve towns in north macedonia have population under 10,000: demir hisar (2,593), pehčevo (3,237), demir kapija (3,275), makedonski brod (3,740), valandovo (4,402), makedonska kamenica (5,147), kruševo (5,330), bogdanci (6,011), kratovo (6,924), berovo (7,002), probištip (8,714) and resen (8,748). these towns are officially called "cities", but they are often called as "small towns" ("гратчиња, gratčinja"), because of the size of the population.