Pristina Municipality

This article is about the municipality in Kosovo. For other uses, see Pristina (disambiguation).

Pristina Municipality (Albanian: Komuna e Prishtinës; Serbian: Opstina Pristina, is a municipality in the district of Priština in Kosovo. The municipality has a population of 198,897 people within an area of 523.13 km² (201.98 sq mi).^[1][2]

Priština Municipality Komuna e Prishtinës (Albanian) Opština Priština (Serbian)
Municipality
Municipality of Prishtina building
Flag Seal
Map of Kosovo with Prishtina highlighted
Country	Kosovo
District	Pristina
Capital	Pristina
Government
• Mayor	Përparim Rama (LDK)
Area
• Total	523.13 km2 (201.98 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Municipality	198,897
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+383 (0)38
Vehicle registration	01
Website	kk.rks-gov.net/prishtine

Demography

The Kosovo Agency of Statistics (ASK) estimated the municipality's population in 2011 at 198,897.^[1] As of the 2011 census, in terms of ethnicity, the municipality was 97.77% Albanian, 1.08% Turkish, 0.28% Ashkali, 0.22% Serbian, 0.2% Bosniak, 0.1% Gorani and 0.03% Romani.^[3] By language, 98.09% spoke Albanian as a first language. Other spoken languages were Turkish (1.04%), Serbian (0.25%) and Romani (0.03%).^[3] By religion, there were 193,474 (97.27%) Muslims, 1,170 (0.59%) Roman Catholics, 480 (0.24%) Orthodox, 344 (0.17%) of other religions and 660 (0.33%) irreligious.^[3]