Štip, Eastern Region, North Macedonia

🇲🇰 Štip is the largest urban agglomeration in the eastern part of North Macedonia, serving as the economic, industrial, entertainment and educational focal point for the surrounding municipalities.

Štip is the largest textile production centre in the country. It is the centre of the fashion industry in North Macedonia, as well as the site of the sole public university in eastern North Macedonia, Goce Delčev University of Štip.

The city of Štip is the seat of Štip Municipality.

Economy Today, Štip is the centre of the country's textile and fashion industry. Formerly the home of such industrial giants in Former Yugoslavia like • the Cotton Industry "Makedonka" - Štip, with its enormous suburban campus, and • the Fashion Industry "Astibo".

From their ashes many private mini-factories were created, mostly by former managers in the socialist giants, which employ most of the women in town today, fashion and textile still being the core skills of the city population, as maintained by the educational system.

Some of the larger private textile and fashion houses in Štip are: • Albatros, • Beas-S, • Kit–Go Teks, • Gracija, • Modena, • Mavis, • Maksima, • LARS, • Linea, • Briteks, • Stipko, • Stip-teks, • Longurov, • Vivendi, • D&A, • Amareta, • Anateks, • Angroteks, • EAM, • Milano, • Vabo, • Zogori, • Metro Premier, • Tekstil Invest-Denim, • Tekstil Logistik and • Eskada.

Transportation The public transport is organised in suburban services and inter-city. The suburbs of • Babi, • Senjak, • Prebeg, • Makedonka, • Novo Selo and Kezhovica, etc. are served by a fleet of municipal buses running 7 days a week and connecting several locations in the city centre with the suburbs.

The inter-city services are provided by the public transportation company "Balkan Ekspres" (Macedonian: Балкан Експрес) which has connections to all cities in North Macedonia as well as some neighboring countries.

The train station located in the northern suburb "Zheleznichka" provides links to • Kočani in the east, and • Veles and Skopje to the west.

There is a large fleet of private taxi vehicles in the city, with very competitive prices. You can visit Stip traveling by car using the highway M-5 (Stip-Kocani-Delcevo) in North Macedonia, and the connection to E-75 highway Stip-Veles.

Travel direction in the region goes via route R-601 (Stip-Plackovica) and R-526 that goes through the city and connects to freeway M-5.