Vojvodina facts for kids
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| Official languages | Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, Rusyn1 | ||
| Capital | Novi Sad | ||
| Area – Total – % water |
21,500 km² n/a |
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| Population – Total (2002) – Density |
2,031,992 94.51/km² |
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| Ethnic groups (2002) |
Serbs: 65.05% Hungarians: 14.28% Slovaks: 2.79% Croats: 2.78% Yugoslavs: 2.45% Montenegrins: 1.75% Romanians: 1.5% Roma: 1.43% Others: 7.97% |
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| 1 All of the official languages are used in the provincial government, Serbian is used in all municipality governments, others are used in selected municipality governments, and few minority languages are used outside official documents | |||
The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Војводина or Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina) is one of the two autonomous provinces in Serbia. It is located in the northern part of the country, in the Pannonian plain. Its capital and the largest city is Novi Sad and the second largest city is Subotica.
Vojvodina is ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse, with more than 26 different ethnic groups and six official languages.
Images for kids
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Ruins of Arača church
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Bač Fortress
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Proclaimed borders of Serbian Vojvodina at the May Assembly (1848) and autonomous Ottoman Principality of Serbia
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Blagoveštenski assembly in Sremski Karlovci, 1861
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Novi Sad, at the beginning of 20th century
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Assembly of Serbs, Bunjevci, and other nations of Vojvodina in Novi Sad proclaimed the unification of Vojvodina region with the Kingdom of Serbia, 1918.
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The Freedom Monument on the Fruška Gora, dedicated to the anti-fascist resistance in occupied Vojvodina
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Banovina Palace, the seat of the Provincial Government of Vojvodina, at night.
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Palić lake.
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Ethnic map of Vojvodina (settlement data)
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Religion map of Vojvodina (municipality data)
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National Theatre in Subotica (1852), the second oldest professional theatre in Serbia.
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Vojvodina is known as Serbia's breadbasket
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National park Fruška Gora
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See also
In Spanish: Voivodina para niños
