Po redaktohet Skopje (paragraf)

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[[File:E65 Skopje Northern Bypass 1.jpg|thumb|Skopje bypass.]]
Skopje is near three other capital cities, [[Prishtina]] ({{cvt|87|km|abbr=off}} away), [[Tirana]] (291&nbsp;km) and [[Sofia]] (245&nbsp;km). [[Thessaloniki]] is {{cvt|233|km|abbr=off}} south and [[Belgrade]] is {{cvt|433|km|abbr=off}} north.<ref name="rimed">{{cite web |url=http://www.seedcenter.gr/rimed/texts/Published%20Reports-Final/WP3-Published%20report%2015.pdf |title=Comparative Swot Analysis of the Four Metropolitan Regions, Transportation, Interaction, Relations and Networks among Skopje, Sofia, Tirana, and Thessaloniki |publisher=University of Thessaly |access-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119233709/http://www.seedcenter.gr/rimed/texts/Published%20Reports-Final/WP3-Published%20report%2015.pdf |archive-date=19 January 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Skopje is also at the crossroad of two [[Pan-European corridors]]: [[Pan-European Corridor X|Corridor X]], which runs between [[Austria]] and [[Greece]], and [[Pan-European Corridor VIII|Corridor VIII]], which runs from the [[Adriatic sea|Adriatic]] in Albania to the [[Black sea]] in Bulgaria. Corridor X links Skopje to Thessaloniki, Belgrade and Western Europe, while Corridor VIII links it with Tirana and Sofia.

Corridor X locally corresponds to the [[M-1 motorway (North Macedonia)|M-1 motorway]] ([[European route E75|E75]]), which is the longest highway in North Macedonia. It also corresponds to the [[Tabanovce]]-[[Gevgelija]] railway. Corridor VIII, less developed, corresponds to the M-4 motorway and the [[Kičevo]]-Beljakovce railway. Skopje is not quite on the Corridor X and the M-1 does not pass on the city territory. Thus the junction between the M-1 and M-4 is some {{cvt|20|km|abbr=off}} east, close to the airport. Although Skopje is geographically close to other major cities, movement of people and goods is not optimized, especially with [[Albania]]. This is mainly due to poor infrastructure. As a result, 61.8% of Skopjans have never been to [[Tirana]], while only 6.7% have never been to [[Thessaloniki]] and 0% to [[Sofia]]. Furthermore, 26% of Thessalonians, 33% of Sofians and 37% of Tiranans have never been to Skopje.<ref name="rimed"/>

The first highways were built during Yugoslav period, when Skopje was linked through the [[Brotherhood and Unity Highway]] to, what was then, Yugoslav capital [[Belgrade]] to North, and Greek border to South.