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Place details
- Locality
- Крива Паланка
- Region
- Kriva Palanka
- Country
- Северна Македонија
- Population
- 20,820
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Kriva Palanka Monastery of Joakim Osogovski Kriva Palanka (Macedonian: Крива Паланка [ˌkriːva ˈpalanka] ) is a town located in the northeastern part of North Macedonia. It has 13,481 inhabitants. The town of Kriva Palanka is the seat of Kriva Palanka Municipality which has 18,059 inhabitants.
The town lies near the Deve Bair national border crossing with Bulgaria; as such, there is nearly constant heavy traffic passing through the main road which bisects the two sides of the town (Deve Bair is considered the main border crossing between North Macedonia and Bulgaria because it links the capitals Skopje with Sofia).