| Settlement Type: | Town and municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Entity |
| Subdivision Type2: | Geographical region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Posavina |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Coordinates: | 45.1333°N 76°W |
| Native Name: | Брод |
| Other Name: | Bosanski Brod |
| Official Name: | Brod |
| Area Blank1 Title: | Town |
| Area Blank2 Title: | Municipality |
| Area Blank2 Km2: | 229.3 |
| Population As Of: | 2013 census |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Town |
| Population Blank1: | 8563 |
| Population Density Blank1 Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Municipality |
| Population Blank2: | 16619 |
| Population Density Blank2 Km2: | auto |
| Area Code: | 53 |
| Leader Title: | Municipal mayor |
| Leader Name: | Zoran Vidić |
| Leader Party: | SDS |
| Image Map1: | Brod-naselja.PNG |
Brod (Serbian: Брод, pronounced as /brôːd/),[1] formerly Bosanski Brod (Serbian: Босански Брод) and Srpski Brod (Serbian: Српски Брод), is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the south bank of the river Sava, in the western part of the Posavina region.[2] As of 2013, the town has a population of 7,637 inhabitants, while the municipality has a population of 16,619 inhabitants.
The city's name refers to a place where river can be crossed, a ford.
Prior to the Bosnian War of the 1990s, the town was known as Bosanski Brod. During the war the prefix "Bosanski" was replaced with "Srpski" due to the town being under Serb control. In May 2009, the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska removed any prefix from the name resulting in the name Brod. Today its official name is just Brod, without either prefix Bosanski or Srpski.The Croatian town of Slavonski Brod is situated on the opposite (northern) bank of the Sava, forming a built-up area of more than 110,000 inhabitants.
The bridge over the Sava River at Brod was destroyed in the early hours of October 1992; it was rebuilt several years later after the hostilities ended.
Aside from the town of Brod, the following settlements comprise the municipality:
| Population of settlements – Brod municipality | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settlement | 1931. | 1948 | 1953. | 1961. | 1971. | 1981. | 1991. | 2013. | ||
| Total | 30,115 | 32,286 | 33,744 | 16,619 | ||||||
| 1 | Brod | 7,386 | 4,993 | 5,329 | 7,350 | 10,003 | 12,506 | 14,098 | 7,961 | |
| 2 | Donja Močila | 659 | 226 | |||||||
| 3 | Donje Kolibe | 837 | 219 | |||||||
| 4 | Donji Klakar | 583 | 407 | |||||||
| 5 | Gornja Močila | 717 | 220 | |||||||
| 6 | Gornje Kolibe | 1,407 | 723 | |||||||
| 7 | Gornji Klakar | 755 | 433 | |||||||
| 8 | Grk | 559 | 258 | |||||||
| 9 | Koraće | 2,022 | 1,151 | |||||||
| 10 | Liješće | 2,032 | 1,518 | |||||||
| 11 | Novo Selo | 2,953 | 982 | |||||||
| 12 | Sijekovac | 1,551 | 455 | |||||||
| 13 | Vinska | 561 | 282 | |||||||
| 14 | Zborište | 854 | 381 | |||||||
| Ethnic composition – Brod town | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | 2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | |||
| Total | 7,961 (100,0%) | 14,098 (100,0%) | 12,506 (100,0%) | 10,003 (100,0%) | |||
| Serbs | 6,767 (85,00%) | 4,373 (31,02%) | 3,505 (28,03%) | 3,229 (32,28%) | |||
| Bosniaks | 521 (6,544%) | 2,246 (15,93%) | 1,682 (13,45%) | 2,093 (20,92%) | |||
| Croats | 404 (5,075%) | 4,086 (28,98%) | 3,812 (30,48%) | 4,166 (41,65%) | |||
| Others | 269 (3,379%) | 633 (4,490%) | 48 (0,384%) | 86 (0,860%) | |||
| Yugoslavs | 2 760 (19,58%) | 3,406 (27,23%) | 376 (3,759%) | ||||
| Montenegrins | 25 (0,200%) | 24 (0,240%) | |||||
| Slovenes | 10 (0,080%) | 10 (0,100%) | |||||
| Macedonians | 8 (0,064%) | 3 (0,030%) | |||||
| Albanians | 6 (0,048%) | 3 (0,030%) | |||||
| Hungarians | 4 (0,032%) | 12 (0,120%) | |||||
| Roma | 1 (0,010%) | ||||||
| Ethnic composition – Brod municipality | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | 2013. | 1991. | 1981. | 1971. | |||
| Total | 16,619 (100,0%) | 34,138 (100,0%) | 32,286 (100,0%) | 30,115 (100,0%) | |||
| Serbs | 11,477 (69,06%) | 11,389 (33,36%) | 10,737 (33,26%) | 11,273 (37,43%) | |||
| Croats | 3,287 (19,78%) | 13,993 (40,99%) | 13,579 (42,06%) | 14,489 (48,11%) | |||
| Bosniaks | 1,509 (9,080%) | 4,088 (11,97%) | 3,106 (9,620%) | 3,706 (12,31%) | |||
| Others | 346 (2,082%) | 1 004 (2,941%) | 89 (0,276%) | 146 (0,485%) | |||
| Yugoslavs | 3,664 (10,73%) | 4,704 (14,57%) | 436 (1,448%) | ||||
| Montenegrins | 28 (0,087%) | 30 (0,100%) | |||||
| Macedonians | 15 (0,046%) | 3 (0,010%) | |||||
| Slovenes | 11 (0,034%) | 13 (0,043%) | |||||
| Albanians | 11 (0,034%) | 3 (0,010%) | |||||
| Hungarians | 6 (0,019%) | 15 (0,050%) | |||||
| Roma | 1 (0,003%) | ||||||
The Municipality of Brod according to population census from 1991, had twenty-three inhabited settlements, divided into twelve local communities: