Municipalities and cities of Serbia


The municipalities and cities are the second level administrative subdivisions of Serbia. The country is divided into 145 municipalities and 29 cities, forming the basic level of local government.
Municipalities and cities are the administrative units of Serbia, and they form 29 districts in groups, except the City of Belgrade which is not part of any district.
A city may and may not be divided into city municipalities depending on their size. Currently, there are six cities in Serbia with city municipalities: Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Požarevac, Užice and Vranje comprise several city municipalities each, divided into "urban" and "other". There are 30 city municipalities.

Definition

Municipalities and cities

;Municipalities
Like in many other countries, municipalities are the basic entities of local government in Serbia. The head of the municipality is the President of the municipality, while the executive power is held by the Municipal council, and legislative power by the Municipal assembly. Municipal assembly is elected on local elections, while the President and the Council are elected by the Assembly. Municipalities have their own property and budget. Only the cities officially have mayors, although the municipal presidents are often informally referred to as such.
The territory of a municipality is composed of a town and surrounding villages. The municipality bears the name of the seat town. Only one municipality does not share the name with the seat town, as the seat of that municipality is the town of Dragaš. This municipality is located in Kosovo, and thus exists only on paper. The territory of the municipality was merged with part of the Municipality of Prizren in 2000 by UNMIK to form new Municipality of Dragaš. This move is not recognised by Serbian Government.
Advocates of reform of Serbian local self-government system point out that Serbian municipalities are the largest in Europe, both by territory and number of residents, and as such can be inefficient in handling citizens' needs and distributing the income from the country budget into most relevant projects.
;Cities and city municipalities
Cities are another type of local self-government. The territory with the city status usually has more than 100,000 inhabitants, but is otherwise very similar to municipality. There are 27 cities, each having an assembly and budget of its own. Only the cities have mayors, although the presidents of the municipalities are often referred to as "mayors" in everyday usage.
As with a municipality, the territory of a city is composed of a city proper and surrounding villages. Every city is part of a district. The exception is the capital Belgrade, which is not part of any district.
The city may or may not be divided into city municipalities. Six cities: Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Požarevac, Užice and Vranje comprise several city municipalities. Competences of cities and these municipalities are divided. The municipalities of these cities also have their assemblies and other prerogatives. Two largest city municipalities by number of residents are the Novi Sad and New Belgrade.
Of these six cities, only Novi Sad did not undergo the full transformation, as the newly formed municipality of Petrovaradin exists pretty much only formally; thus, the City municipality of Novi Sad is largely equated to city of Novi Sad. The city of Kragujevac had its own city municipalities from 2002 until 2008. In 2013, the city municipality of Sevojno within the city of Užice was established.

Municipalities and cities of Kosovo

Serbian law still treats Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia, although Kosovo declared independence in 2008. The Law on Territorial Organization defines 28 municipalities and 1 city on the territory of Kosovo. Kosovo was under official United Nations' administration from 1999 to 2008. The UNMIK administration changed the territorial organisation on the territory of Kosovo. In 2000 the municipality of Gora was merged with Opolje into the new municipality of Dragaš and one new municipality was created: Mališevo. Later, from 2005 to 2008, seven new municipalities were created: Gračanica, Elez Han, Junik, Parteš, Klokot, Ranilug and Mamuša. However, the Government of Serbia does not recognise the territorial re-organisation of Kosovo, although some of these new-formed municipalities have Serb majority, and some Serbs participate in local elections. In three of those municipalities: Gračanica, Klokot-Vrbovac and Ranilug, Serbian parties won a majority in the 2009 elections.
In the Brussels Agreement, in 2013, Serbia agreed to disband its parallel municipal institutions in Kosovo, while the authorities of Kosovo agreed on creation of the Community of Serb Municipalities. However, both parties acted slowly to put this agreement in power.

List of municipalities

This is a list of the municipalities in Serbia, as defined by the Law on territorial organisation It does not include municipalities in Kosovo created by UNMIK after 1999. The data on population is taken from the 2011 census.
The census was not conducted in Kosovo, which is under administration of UNMIK, so the population numbers are not given for the municipalities in Kosovo.
№CrestMunicipalityDistrictArea Population
63KladovoBor District62920,635
86MajdanpekBor District93218,686
93NegotinBor District1,08937,056
29Veliko GradišteBraničevo District34417,610
41GolubacBraničevo District3688,331
89Malo CrnićeBraničevo District27111,458
50ŽabariBraničevo District26411,380
105Petrovac na MlaviBraničevo District65531,259
77KučevoBraničevo District72115,516
51ŽagubicaBraničevo District76012,737
21BojnikJablanica District26411,104
80LebaneJablanica District33722,000
90MedveđaJablanica District5247,438
33VlasotinceJablanica District30829,893
145Crna TravaJablanica District3121,663
102OsečinaKolubara District31912,536
143UbKolubara District45629,101
78LajkovacKolubara District18615,475
92MionicaKolubara District32914,335
84LjigKolubara District27912,754
20BogatićMačva District38428,883
31VladimirciMačva District33817,462
73KoceljevaMačva District25713,129
87Mali ZvornikMačva District18412,482
74KrupanjMačva District34217,295
85LjubovijaMačva District35614,469
43Gornji MilanovacMoravica District83644,406
83LučaniMoravica District45420,897
56IvanjicaMoravica District1,09031,963
3AleksinacNišava District70751,863
123SvrljigNišava District49714,249
91MerošinaNišava District19313,968
117RažanjNišava District2899,150
47DoljevacNišava District12118,463
38Gadžin HanNišava District3258,389
32Vladičin HanPčinja District36620,871
134SurdulicaPčinja District62820,319
24BosilegradPčinja District5718,129
138TrgovištePčinja District3705,091
26BujanovacPčinja District461
112PreševoPčinja District264
15Bela PalankaPirot District95112,126
8BabušnicaPirot District52912,307
46DimitrovgradPirot District48310,118
127Smederevska PalankaPodunavlje District42250,284
28Velika PlanaPodunavlje District34540,902
142ĆuprijaPomoravlje District28730,645
104ParaćinPomoravlje District54254,242
122SvilajnacPomoravlje District32623,551
44DespotovacPomoravlje District62323,191
120RekovacPomoravlje District36611,055
27VarvarinRasina District24917,966
139TrstenikRasina District44842,966
141ĆićevacRasina District1249,476
2AleksandrovacRasina District38726,522
25BrusRasina District60616,317
35Vrnjačka BanjaRaška District23927,527
119RaškaRaška District67024,678
140TutinRaška District74231,155
6AranđelovacŠumadija District37646,225
137TopolaŠumadija District35622,329
118RačaŠumadija District21611,503
10BatočinaŠumadija District13611,760
65KnićŠumadija District41314,237
79LapovoŠumadija District557,837
19BlaceToplica District30611,754
76KuršumlijaToplica District95219,213
53ŽitorađaToplica District21416,368
22BoljevacZaječar District82812,994
66KnjaževacZaječar District1,20231,491
128SokobanjaZaječar District52516,021
9Bajina BaštaZlatibor District67326,022
69KosjerićZlatibor District35812,090
111PožegaZlatibor District42629,638
146ČajetinaZlatibor District64714,745
7AriljeZlatibor District34918,792
94Nova VarošZlatibor District58116,638
115PrijepoljeZlatibor District82737,059
126SjenicaZlatibor District1,05926,392
113PribojZlatibor District55327,133
96Novi BečejCentral Banat District60923,925
95Nova CrnjaCentral Banat District27310,272
52ŽitišteCentral Banat District52516,841
125SečanjCentral Banat District52313,267
13Bačka TopolaNorth Bačka District59633,321
88Mali IđošNorth Bačka District17512,031
60KanjižaNorth Banat District39925,343
124SentaNorth Banat District29323,316
1AdaNorth Banat District22916,991
147ČokaNorth Banat District32111,398
97Novi KneževacNorth Banat District30511,269
130SrbobranSouth Bačka District28416,317
11BačSouth Bačka District36714,405
18BečejSouth Bačka District48737,351
34VrbasSouth Bačka District37642,092
12Bačka PalankaSouth Bačka District57955,528
14Bački PetrovacSouth Bačka District15813,418
49ŽabaljSouth Bačka District40026,134
136TitelSouth Bačka District26215,738
135TemerinSouth Bačka District17028,287
17BeočinSouth Bačka District18615,726
131Sremski KarlovciSouth Bačka District518,750
109PlandišteSouth Banat District38311,336
100OpovoSouth Banat District20310,440
67KovačicaSouth Banat District41925,274
4AlibunarSouth Banat District60220,151
16Bela CrkvaSouth Banat District35317,367
68KovinSouth Banat District73033,722
148ŠidSrem District68734,188
57InđijaSrem District38447,433
58IrigSrem District23010,866
121RumaSrem District58254,339
132Stara PazovaSrem District35165,792
107PećinciSrem District48919,720
5ApatinWest Bačka District33328,929
103OdžaciWest Bačka District41130,154
75KulaWest Bačka District48143,101
39GlogovacKosovo District290
70Kosovo PoljeKosovo District89
82LipljanKosovo District401
99ObilićKosovo District105
110PodujevoKosovo District625
144UroševacKosovo District344
149ŠtimljeKosovo District134
61KačanikKosovo District294
150ŠtrpceKosovo District248
71Kosovska KamenicaKosovo-Pomoravlje District509
98Novo BrdoKosovo-Pomoravlje District81
40GnjilaneKosovo-Pomoravlje District510
30VitinaKosovo-Pomoravlje District289
72Kosovska MitrovicaKosovska Mitrovica District336
81LeposavićKosovska Mitrovica District539
129SrbicaKosovska Mitrovica District374
37VučitrnKosovska Mitrovica District353
55Zubin PotokKosovska Mitrovica District328
54ZvečanKosovska Mitrovica District123
106PećPeć District603
59IstokPeć District464
64KlinaPeć District403
48ĐakovicaPeć District587
45DečaniPeć District402
101OrahovacPrizren District401
133Suva RekaPrizren District434
114PrizrenPrizren District757
42GoraPrizren District310

List of cities and city municipalities