Location: Northeastern part of R. Macedonia
Area: 325,6 square kilometers
Number of population: 16.193 (99% Macedonians)
Number of settlements: 37
Municipal center: the town of Probistip (with 10816 inhabitants)
Address of the municipality: Jakim Stojkovski St. 1, 2210, Probistip
Telephone: 00389(0)32483131
Fax: 00289(0)32483047
Web page: www.probistip.gov.mk
e-mail: gradonacalnik@probistip.gov.mk
Tourist localities:
Monastery St. Gavril Lesnovski
SRC Ponikva
Ancient Macedonian architecture
Lesnovo crater
Mineralogical collection
Accommodation capacities:
Hotel “San Niko”-60 beds and a hall for 350 guests
Hotel “Cresovo topce”-50 beds and a hall for 400 guests
Motel Brioni-15 beds and a hall for 150 guests
Boarding school Done Bozinov-129 beds and a hall for 250 guests
Opportunities fro investments in tourism:
Construction of accommodation and catering objects
Construction of skiing paths
Ideal conditions for development of rural, hunting and fish tourism
Natural resources:
Deposits of metals (lead, zinc, antimony, copper, silver)
Deposits of non metals (quartzite, Opal tuff, dacet, andesite, Bitumen’s shale, coal etc.)
Totally cultivable land-12.378 hectares
Pastures-12.199 hectares
Surfaces with woods-66.537 hectares
Ecological clean mountain environment and spacious pastures
More important economic branches:
Chemical industry-1 economic capacity
Transport-5 economic capacities
Nourishment industry-10 economic capacities
Wood manufacturing -1 economic capacity
Mining industry-2 economic capacities