Gostivar (Macedonian: Гостивар [ˈɡɔstivar] ⓘ; Albanian: Komuna e Gostivarit) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia.

Gostivar is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found.

According to the 2021 North Macedonia census, this municipality has 59,770 inhabitants.

[1] Mother tongues among the municipality residents include:[2] Several villages were burned down in Gostivar during 1912-16 by Serbian and Bulgarian forces.

On 26 November 2019, an earthquake struck Albania and Gostivar Municipality contributed humanitarian aid and teams of firefighters and doctors toward the relief effort for earthquake victims.