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Geography of Subotica
Subotica (in Hungarian Szabadka) is both a
municipality and a city. As a municipality, it has 148,401 inhabitants
and covers more than 1000 km². The town itself has 99,981 inhabitants. The rest
of the municipality is made up of 16 villages, including Palić’s lake, its most
famous tourist attraction.
The city Subotica is Serbia’s fifth largest city and Vojvodina’s second largest city after Novi Sad. It is the administrative centre of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.
The municipality of Subotica is located right in the middle of the road between Budapest and Belgrade, only 12km away from the Hungarian border. Its central location has made of Subotica an important industrial, commercial and multicultural centre in Vojvodina.
It lays in the Pannonian plain, thus it is absolutely flat. Moreover, no river is crossing the city.
Due to either several conflicts leading to switching of the ruling power in this area or just changes of the regime, Subotica has been part of eight different countries during the last century:
The city Subotica is Serbia’s fifth largest city and Vojvodina’s second largest city after Novi Sad. It is the administrative centre of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.
The municipality of Subotica is located right in the middle of the road between Budapest and Belgrade, only 12km away from the Hungarian border. Its central location has made of Subotica an important industrial, commercial and multicultural centre in Vojvodina.
It lays in the Pannonian plain, thus it is absolutely flat. Moreover, no river is crossing the city.
Due to either several conflicts leading to switching of the ruling power in this area or just changes of the regime, Subotica has been part of eight different countries during the last century:
- Austro-Hungarian
Empire until 1918
- Kingdom
of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1929
- Kingdom
of Yugoslavia until 1941
- Hungary
until 1945
- Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 1992
- Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003
- State Union of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006