Nakolec (; ) is a village on Lake Prespa in Resen Municipality in the Republic of North Macedonia. It is located roughly south of the municipal centre of Resen.
Demographics The village of Nakolec has a Sunni Albanian majority and an Orthodox Macedonian minority. A small number of Albanian speaking Muslim Romani used to live in Nakolec which during the latter decades of the 20th century have migrated to Ohrid and Resen. In the late Ottoman period, a few Turks and some Bektashi Albanians, known locally as Kolonjarë, used to also reside in the village of Nakolec (). "Горна Преспа... Во 1900 год. Турци имало само во Наколец (30 лица)."
Nakolec has 262 residents as of the most recent national census in 2002. The village has long had a multiethnic population.Censuses of population 1948 - 2002
Ethnicgroup census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 1994 census 2002 census 2021 Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Macedonians 242 40.0 274 37.1 180 28.8 160 30.0 94 31.9 81 30.9 78 36.8 Albanians 391 61.4 458 62.0 439 70.1 296 55.5 175 59.3 158 60.3 115 54.3 Turks 4 0.6 5 0.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Roma 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 16 3.0 16 5.4 15 5.7 7 3.3 others 0 0.0 2 0.3 7 1.1 61 11.5 10 3.4 8 3.1 4 1.9 Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 8 3.8 Total 637 739 626 533 295 262 212
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People from Nakolec Risto Vasilevski (1943 -), poet, critic, and translator
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