| Stenje | |
| Native Name: | Стење |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| 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: | 438 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 40.9336°N 20.9167°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | +389 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | RE |
Stenje (Macedonian: Стење) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. It is located on the shore of Lake Prespa, near the Macedonian-Albanian border and Galičica National Park.[1] Today, the village has 438 inhabitants.[2]
As of the most recent national census in 2002, Stenje has an ethnically homogeneous population of Macedonians. The village is also one of only four in the municipality to have gained population from the 1994 census to the latest one.[3]
| Ethnic group | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 466 | 97.7 | 440 | 96.9 | 425 | 97.7 | 333 | 99.1 | 320 | 98.8 | 438 | 100.0 |
| Serbs | 9 | 1.9 | 7 | 1.5 | 4 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
| others | 2 | 0.4 | 7 | 1.5 | 6 | 1.4 | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Total | 477 | 454 | 435 | 336 | 324 | 438 | ||||||
All but one of the villagers declared Macedonian to be their mother tongue.[4]
All of Stenje's residents identified as Macedonian Orthodox in the previous census.[4] The village has four churches including the Church of St Atanas, the Church of Ss Cyril and Methodius, the Church of St Nicholas, and the Church of the Presentation of the Holy Mother of God.[5]