Municipalities and cities of Serbia


The municipalities and cities are the first-level administrative division and the basic level of local government of Serbia. The country is divided into 145 municipalities and 29 cities.
Municipalities and cities form 29 administrative districts, except the City of Belgrade which is not part of any district.

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. The 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.
Advocates of reform of local self-government system point out that Serbian municipalities are the largest in Europe by territory and as such can be inefficient in handling citizens' needs and distributing the income from the country budget into most relevant projects.
The largest municipalitity by population is Stara Pazova.

List of municipalities

No.EmblemMunicipalityAdministrative districtArea Population
63KladovoBor District62917,435
86MajdanpekBor District93214,559
93NegotinBor District1,08928,261
29Veliko GradišteBraničevo District34415,455
41GolubacBraničevo District3686,599
89Malo CrnićeBraničevo District2718,986
50ŽabariBraničevo District2649,261
105Petrovac na MlaviBraničevo District65525,900
77KučevoBraničevo District72111,806
51ŽagubicaBraničevo District7609,712
21BojnikJablanica District2649,315
80LebaneJablanica District33718,119
90MedveđaJablanica District5246,360
33VlasotinceJablanica District30825,695
145Crna TravaJablanica District3121,063
102OsečinaKolubara District3199,951
143UbKolubara District45625,780
78LajkovacKolubara District18613,825
92MionicaKolubara District32912,061
84LjigKolubara District27910,711
20BogatićMačva District38424,522
31VladimirciMačva District33814,427
73KoceljevaMačva District25711,148
87Mali ZvornikMačva District18412,219
74KrupanjMačva District34214,399
85LjubovijaMačva District35612,168
43Gornji MilanovacMoravica District83638,985
83LučaniMoravica District45416,933
56IvanjicaMoravica District1,09027,751
3AleksinacNišava District70743,098
123SvrljigNišava District49710,781
91MerošinaNišava District19311,873
117RažanjNišava District2897,010
47DoljevacNišava District12115,837
38Gadžin HanNišava District3255,850
32Vladičin HanPčinja District36617,532
134SurdulicaPčinja District62816,991
24BosilegradPčinja District5716,065
138TrgovištePčinja District3704,316
26BujanovacPčinja District46141,068
112PreševoPčinja District26433,449
15Bela PalankaPirot District9519,947
8BabušnicaPirot District5299,109
46DimitrovgradPirot District4838,043
127Smederevska PalankaPodunavlje District42242,192
28Velika PlanaPodunavlje District34535,451
142ĆuprijaPomoravlje District28725,325
104ParaćinPomoravlje District54245,543
122SvilajnacPomoravlje District32620,141
44DespotovacPomoravlje District62318,278
120RekovacPomoravlje District3668,116
27VarvarinRasina District24914,217
139TrstenikRasina District44835,875
141ĆićevacRasina District1247,860
2AleksandrovacRasina District38722,069
25BrusRasina District60613,594
35Vrnjačka BanjaRaška District23925,065
119RaškaRaška District67021,498
140TutinRaška District74233,053
6AranđelovacŠumadija District37641,297
137TopolaŠumadija District35619,134
118RačaŠumadija District2169,638
10BatočinaŠumadija District13610,162
65KnićŠumadija District41311,729
79LapovoŠumadija District556,582
19BlaceToplica District3069,682
76KuršumlijaToplica District95215,823
53ŽitorađaToplica District21413,782
22BoljevacZaječar District82810,184
66KnjaževacZaječar District1,20225,341
128SokobanjaZaječar District52513,199
9Bajina BaštaZlatibor District67323,533
69KosjerićZlatibor District35810,175
111PožegaZlatibor District42625,988
146ČajetinaZlatibor District64714,585
7AriljeZlatibor District34917,063
94Nova VarošZlatibor District58113,507
115PrijepoljeZlatibor District82732,214
126SjenicaZlatibor District1,05924,083
113PribojZlatibor District55323,514
96Novi BečejCentral Banat District60919,886
95Nova CrnjaCentral Banat District2738,147
52ŽitišteCentral Banat District52513,412
125SečanjCentral Banat District52310,544
13Bačka TopolaNorth Bačka District59626,228
88Mali IđošNorth Bačka District1759,983
60KanjižaNorth Banat District39920,141
124SentaNorth Banat District29323,316
1AdaNorth Banat District22913,293
147ČokaNorth Banat District3218,556
97Novi KneževacNorth Banat District3058,627
130SrbobranSouth Bačka District28414,357
11BačSouth Bačka District36711,431
18BečejSouth Bačka District48730,681
34VrbasSouth Bačka District37636,601
12Bačka PalankaSouth Bačka District57948,265
14Bački PetrovacSouth Bačka District15811,512
49ŽabaljSouth Bačka District40023,853
136TitelSouth Bačka District26213,984
135TemerinSouth Bačka District17025,780
17BeočinSouth Bačka District18613,875
131Sremski KarlovciSouth Bačka District517,872
109PlandišteSouth Banat District3838,957
100OpovoSouth Banat District2039,462
67KovačicaSouth Banat District41921,178
4AlibunarSouth Banat District60217,139
16Bela CrkvaSouth Banat District35314,451
68KovinSouth Banat District73028,141
148ŠidSrem District68727,894
57InđijaSrem District38443,443
58IrigSrem District2309,290
121RumaSrem District58248,621
132Stara PazovaSrem District35162,318
107PećinciSrem District48918,401
5ApatinWest Bačka District33323,155
103OdžaciWest Bačka District41124,926
75KulaWest Bačka District48135,592

Cities

Cities are another type of local self-government. The territory with the city status usually has more than 50,000 inhabitants, but is otherwise very similar to a municipality. There are 29 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 an administrative 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, 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.
The largest city municipalitity by population is New Belgrade.

Municipalities of Kosovo

Serbian law still treats Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia, although the United Nations administration has established a new territorial organization of that territory. The Law on Territorial Organization defines 28 municipalities and 1 city 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.
By the 2013 Brussels Agreement, 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.