| Sopotsko | |
| Native Name: | Сопотско Sopockë |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pelagonia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Resen |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 222 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 41.085°N 21.0639°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | +389 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | RE |
Sopotsko (Macedonian: Сопотско, Albanian: Sopockë), is a village in the Resen Municipality of the Republic of North Macedonia. Sopotsko is roughly 5km (03miles) from the municipal centre of Resen.[1]
The village of Sopotsko is inhabited by an Orthodox Macedonian majority and a Sunni Muslim Albanian minority. Sunni Albanians in Sopotsko traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Torbeš in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians. Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.[2]
As of the 2021 census, Sopotsko had 152 residents.[3]
| Ethnic group | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | census 2021 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 541 | 84.1 | 444 | 83.3 | 419 | 73.5 | 285 | 85.3 | 215 | 87.4 | 184 | 82.9 | 111 | 73.0 |
| Albanians | 56 | 8.7 | 86 | 16.1 | 125 | 21.9 | 45 | 13.5 | 30 | 12.2 | 36 | 16.2 | 31 | 20.4 |
| Turks | 44 | 6.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Serbs | 2 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| others | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.4 | 19 | 3.3 | 3 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | 10 | 6.6 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 643 | 533 | 570 | 334 | 260 | 222 | 152 | |||||||