page_title: Gjakova
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Gjakova / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: 21 December 2010 Prishtina, Kosovo. Children in their 3 grade of Primary School " Emin Duraku " in Prishtina with their Teacher. This school has tens of roma children studying together with Kosovar kids. In this class were 2 of them. (2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report) -Primary School Emin Duraku, Gjakove, KosovoRomână: Raportul de monitorizare „Educație pentru toți”, 2011: Elevi de clasa a 3-a cu învățătorul lor în școala primară „Emin Duraku” din Gjakove, Kosovo. Școala are câteva duzine de elevi țigani care învață împreună cu copiii kosovari; aceștia doi sunt singurii din clasa lor.
context_page_description: Gjakova or Đakovica is a city and municipality located in the Gjakova District of western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the city of Gjakova has 40,827 inhabitants, while the municipality has,94,556 inhabitants.
  Geographically, it is located in the south-western part of Kosovo, about halfway between the cities of Peć and Prizren. It is approximately 100 km inland from the Adriatic Sea.
  The city is situated some 208 kilometres north-east of Tirana, 145 kilometres north-west of Skopje, 80 kilometres west of the capital Pristina, 435 kilometres south of Belgrade and 263 kilometres east of Podgorica.
  The city of Gjakova has been populated since the prehistoric era. During the Ottoman period, Gjakova served as a trading center on the route between Shkodër and Istanbul. It was also one of the most developed trade centers at that time in the Balkans.
context_section_description: According to the 2011 census, the resident population was 94,556, of which urban inhabitants numbered 40,827 and rural 53,729; there were 47,226 males and 47,330 females. The ethnic groups include Albanians (87,672), Balkan Egyptians (5,117), Roma (738), Ashkali (613), and smaller numbers of Bosniaks (73), Serbs (17), Turks (16), Gorani (13) and others. Based on those that answered, the religious make-up was 77,299 Muslims, 16,296 Roman Catholics, 22 Orthodox Christians, 142 others, and 129 irreligious. Based on the population estimates from the Kosovo Agency of Statistics in 2016, the municipality has 95,433 inhabitants.
  According to OSCE estimations, before the Kosovo War of 1999 the municipality had a population of about 145,000, of which 93% were Kosovo Albanians and 7% non-majority communities, including some 3,000 Serbs, who mostly lived in the main town.
caption: Kosovar children studying at Primary School Emin Duraku, Gjakova.
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