Forino, Gostivar

Village in Polog, North Macedonia

Forino Форино Forinë
Village
Airview of the village
41°49′N 20°58′E / 41.817°N 20.967°E / 41.817; 20.967
Country	North Macedonia
Region	Polog
Municipality	Gostivar
Population (2021)
• Total	2,809
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	1237
Area code	042
Car plates	GV
Website	.

Forino (Macedonian: Форино; Albanian: Forinë) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia. Forino's distance is 5.15 km / 3.2 mi away from the center of the municipality.

Demographics

As of the 2021 census, Forino had 2,809 residents with the following ethnic composition:^[1]

Albanians 2,710
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 94
Others 5

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 4,652 inhabitants.^[2] Ethnic groups in the village include:^[2]

Albanians 4,624
Serbs 1
Bosniaks 1
Others 26

According to the 1942 Albanian census, Forino was inhabited by 1403 Muslim Albanians.^[3]

Sports

Local football club KF Vardari plays in the Macedonian Second League (West Division).

Notable people

Talat Xhaferi, Prime minister of North Macedonia.

References

^ Total resident population of the Republic of North Macedonia by ethnic affiliation, by settlement, Census 2021
^ ^a ^b Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 191.
^ http://pop-stat.mashke.org/alb-historic/1942-diber-tetove-ethnicrel-loc.htm