Zajas Municipality

Zajas (, Zajaz) is a former municipality in western North Macedonia, created in the 1996 territorial organisation, dissolved following 2013 Macedonian new territorial organisation after it was merged with Kičevo Municipality.
 * Zajas is also the name of the village where the municipal seat was found.
 * Zajas Municipality was part of the Southwestern Statistical Region.

Geography
The municipality bordered
 * Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality to the west,
 * Gostivar Municipality to the northeast,
 * Oslomej Municipality to the east,
 * Kičevo Municipality to the southeast, and
 * Drugovo Municipality to the southwest.

Demographics
According to the last national census from 2002, this municipality has 11,605 inhabitants.
 * Ethnic groups in the municipality include:
 * Albanians = 11,308 (97.4%)
 * Macedonians = 211 (1.8%)
 * others = 86 (0.7%)

The total number of students in the municipality in 2011, in comparison to the total number of students in 2007, declined for 35.5%. Zajas is the second municipality in North Macedonia by the decline of the total number of students.