Zajas (Macedonian: Зајас^ⓘ, Albanian: 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.^[1]

• Zajas is also the name of the village where the municipal seat was found.
  • Zajas Municipality was part of the Southwestern Statistical Region.

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.

According to the last national census from 2002, this municipality has 11,605 inhabitants.^[2]

• 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.^[3]