Municipalities of Republika Srpska facts for kids

Republika Srpska is a part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's like a big region that has many smaller areas called municipalities. In 1994, a special rulebook, or "law," was made to divide Republika Srpska into 80 municipalities.

Later, after a peace agreement called the Dayton Agreement was signed in 1995, some borders changed. So, in 1996, the law was updated. Now, Republika Srpska is divided into 64 municipalities.

List of municipalities

Here is a list of the 64 municipalities in Republika Srpska. The numbers show how many people lived there in 2013:

Former municipalities

After the peace agreement, some municipalities changed. The law was updated in 1996. It said that some municipalities that were now partly or fully in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (another part of Bosnia and Herzegovina) would stop working. Any parts of these old municipalities that were still in Republika Srpska were added to other nearby municipalities.

Here are some of the municipalities that changed:

• Glamoč (part included in Šipovo)
• Gradačac (parts included in Modriča and Pelagićevo)
• Grahovo (formerly Bosansko Grahovo)
• Hadžići
• Ilijaš (part included in Sokolac)
• Konjic (parts included in Nevesinje)
• Kladanj (parts included in Šekovići)
• Lukavac (parts included in Petrovo)
• Maglaj (parts included in Doboj)
• Olovo (parts included in Sokolac)
• Skelani (included in Srebrenica)
• Srbobran (parts included in Šipovo) (formerly Donji Vakuf)
• Tuzla (parts included in Lopare)
• Vogošća

Special municipalities

Some areas have special rules because of their history or location.

Sarajevo

In 1993, a law was made about a "Serb City of Sarajevo." This city, later called Istočno Sarajevo (which means East Sarajevo), was made up of several smaller municipalities. Some of these, like Ilidža and Vogošća, later became part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Today, Istočno Sarajevo has six municipalities:

• Srpska Ilidža (now called "Kasindo" since 2004)
• Srpsko Novo Sarajevo (now called "Lukavica" since 2004)
• Pale
• Sokolac
• Srpski Stari Grad (now called "Istočni Stari Grad" since 2004)
• Trnovo

In 1996, the name "Serb City of Sarajevo" was changed to "City of Srpsko Sarajevo." Then, in 2004, a court decided that the city's name should temporarily be "City of Istočno (East) Sarajevo."

Brčko

The Brčko District is a special area in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A large part of it (almost half) used to be part of Republika Srpska. Republika Srpska controlled this area until March 8, 2000.

The Brčko District was created as a shared territory. It belongs to both Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, it is not controlled by either of them. Instead, it is directly managed by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  Municipalities of Republika Srpska (light blue)