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A Serbian district is the unit a town sits in when someone asks which part of the country it is in, and it is a better answer than "central" or "the south". The districts are how the state organises its regional offices, they follow rivers and mountain ranges more than ethnic or historical lines, and the seven in Vojvodina are the only ones with names that say where they are. This page is the full set, the statistical region each belongs to, and what tells them apart.
Serbia is divided into districts (upravni okruzi), and these are not municipalities or provinces. A district is a regional branch of the national government with a seat in its largest town, and the municipalities and cities sit inside them. Each one is usually named for a river or a region (Mačva, Šumadija, Pčinja) and not for its seat, which is the first thing to learn: the town and its district often have different names.
Belgrade is a district of its own, a city with the status of one. It is the only one of the 25 that is a single city rather than a ring of municipalities around a seat.
Kosovo is not on this map. Serbian law counts five more districts there, and the rest of the catalogue draws Kosovo as the country most of the world recognises, so the game is the 24 districts and Belgrade that Serbia administers. The Preševo valley in the south, with Bujanovac and Preševo, is inside Pčinja and is on the map.
Vojvodina has seven districts, Belgrade is one, and the other seventeen are south of the Sava and the Danube. In the north the districts are flat and named for the old regions of Bačka and Banat and the compass (North Bačka, South Banat). South of the Sava and the Danube they are hillier, narrower and named for rivers. Any of the four statistical regions can be switched on and off in the start dialog, which is the quickest way to learn the map: take Vojvodina, which is seven fields in a row, then add the next.
Every name can be switched to Serbian Cyrillic in the start dialog. Road signs in Serbia carry both alphabets, and the Cyrillic is the form on the left or on top.
Seats that are not where they sound. Novi Sad is in South Bačka, not North Bačka, and Subotica is the seat of North Bačka. Kraljevo is the seat of Raška, which is named for the historic region around Novi Pazar, and Čačak is the seat of Moravica. Smederevo is the seat of Podunavlje, which is the smallest district on the map, and Požarevac sits in Braničevo just east of it.
Districts named after a river. Kolubara, Mačva, Moravica, Rasina, Nišava, Toplica and Pčinja are all rivers, and Zlatibor, Šumadija and Pomoravlje are regions. The river names are a clue to where the district is, if you know where the river is.
South Bačka: the district of Novi Sad, on the Danube, in the south of the Bačka plain. It is the largest city outside Belgrade and sits opposite the Fruška Gora hills of Srem, which is the district across the river. Subotica is further north, in North Bačka.
Belgrade: the capital and the district around it, where the Sava meets the Danube. It touches Vojvodina across both rivers, which makes it the one district that borders all three statistical regions.
Pčinja: the southernmost district, whose seat Vranje is the last big town before the border with North Macedonia. The Preševo valley in its southwest corner is a pocket of the country that reaches towards Kosovo, and it is the part of the map that most often surprises players.
Serbian law counts 29 districts and the City of Belgrade, which is 30 units. Five of them are in Kosovo, so a map that draws Kosovo as a separate country shows the 24 districts and Belgrade that Serbia administers, and that is the map in this quiz.
A district (upravni okrug) is a regional office of the national government rather than a level with its own elected body. It groups several municipalities and cities around a seat, and it is the tier most often used for statistics and for locating a town in a sentence.
For statistics Serbia is grouped into four regions: Vojvodina, Belgrade, Šumadija and Western Serbia, and Southern and Eastern Serbia. Vojvodina is also an autonomous province with its own assembly, and the quiz uses the four statistical regions as its groups.
No. The catalogue draws Kosovo as its own country everywhere else, so its five districts under Serbian law are left off this map to match. The game takes no position on the dispute, and a map that follows Serbian law would show them in the southwest.
The three Banat districts in the northeast of Vojvodina, since they are neighbours with similar names, and the neighbouring districts of the centre such as Pomoravlje, Rasina and Šumadija. Learn the region first and the neighbours second.
Neighbouring and nearby administrative maps include Hungary Counties, Romania Counties and Bulgaria Provinces.
