Pustec (municipality)

Pustec Municipality (Albanian: Bashkia Pustec; Macedonian: Општина Пустец, Opshtina Pustets), previously known as Liqenas Commune (Albanian: Komuna Liqenas) from 1973 to 2013, is a municipality in the Korçë County of Albania.

[1] The population at the 2011 census was 3,290,[2] in a total area of 243.6 km2 (94.1 sq mi).

[4] It consists of nine villages, comprising the areas along the Albanian, the southwestern shore of Lake Prespa.

[7] The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) from 1905 shows that the local Christian inhabitants were divided between Bulgarian Exarchate and Patriarchate of Constantinople.

According to the 2011 census, 97% of the municipality's residents were ethnic Macedonians and 96% were Orthodox Christians.

The villages within Pustec Municipality
A road sign in Mala Prespa indicating the direction of Pustec , written in both Albanian and Macedonian