Central Serbia
The central Serbia , in Serb Cyrillic Serb Sr ЦентралнаСрбија and in transliterated Centralna Srbija, is the part of the Serbia located apart from the autonomous provinces of Voïvodine (at North) and of the Kosovo (in the South). It is sometimes called “interior Serbia” or “clean Serbia”. It is not, strictly speaking, an administrative area; it concerns directly the jurisdiction of Belgrade, contrary to Voïvodine and Kosovo, which enjoy a certain territorial autonomy.
Administrative divisions
The territory of central Serbia is divided into 17 districts to which the Town of Belgrade is added.
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Mačva
- Kolubara
- Moravica
- Zlatibor
- Podunavlje
- Braničevo
- Šumadija
- Pomoravlje
- Raška
- Rasina
- Bor
- Zaječar
- Nišava
- Pirot
- Toplica
- Jablanica
- Pčinja
- Town of Belgrade
See also Districts of Serbia
Towns of central Serbia
More the central big cities of Serbia are:
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Belgrade = 1.280.600
- Niš = 173.400
- Kragujevac = 146.000
- Čačak = 73.200
- Leskovac = 63.100
- Smederevo = 62.700
- Valjevo = 61.400
- Loznica = 59.900
- Smederevska Palanka = 59.605
- Kraljevo = 57.800
- Kruševac = 57.400
- Užice = 55.000
- Vranje = 55.000
- Šabac = 54.800
- Novi Pazar = 54.600
See also: Towns of Serbia
Geographical areas of central Serbia
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Šumadija
- Mačva
- Timočka Krajina
- Pomoravlje
- Podunavlje
- Posavina
- Podrinje
- Zlatibor
- Raška
- Sandžak
- Valley of Preševo
Ethnic composition (census of 2002)
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Serb = 4.891.031 (89.48%)
- Bosnian = 135.670 (2.48%)
- Roms = 79.136 (1.45%)
- Albanian = 59.952 (1.10%)
- Wallachian = 39.953 (0.73%)
- Montenegrins = 33.536 (0.61%)
- Yugoslav = 30.840 (0.56%)
- Bulgarian = 18.839 (0.34%)
- Moslem = 15.869 (0.29%)
- Macedonians = 14.062 (0.26%)
- Croatian = 14.056 (0.26%)
- Others
The majority of the municipalities of central Serbia have a Serb ethnic majority. Three municipalities, Novi Pazar, Tutin and Sjenica, have a Bosnian majority, two municipalities, Bujanovac and Preševo, has an Albanian majority, a municipality Bosilegrad has a Bulgarian majority; the municipality of Dimitrovgrad ethniquement is ethniquement mixed, with a relative majority made up of Bulgarian.
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