This is the list of cities and towns in Serbia, according to the criteria used by Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, which classifies the settlements into urban and rural, depending not only on size, but also on other administrative and legal criteria. Also villages with the municipal rights have been added to the list.
As with a municipality, the territory of a city is composed of a city proper and surrounding villages (e.g. the territory of the City of Subotica is composed of the Subotica town and surrounding villages). The capital Belgrade is the only city on the level of a district.[2] All other cities are on the municipality level and are part of a district.
The city of Kragujevac had its own city municipalities from 2002 until 2008, when they were abolished. Novi Sad used to be formally divided into city municipalities of Novi Sad and Petrovaradin,[3] but in March 2019 a new city statute was adopted, abolishing any separate municipalities.[4] In 2013, the city municipality of Sevojno within the city of Užice was established.[5]
This is a list of cities and municipalities (excluding city municipalities) in Serbia, as defined by the Law on territorial organisation The data on population is taken from the 2011 census.[6]
It does not include municipalities in Kosovo created by the UNMIK after 1999. The census was not conducted in Kosovo, which was under administration of UNMIK, so the population numbers are not given for the municipalities in Kosovo.
According to the statistic criteria, the settlements in the table are classified as "urban" (i.e. cities and towns), as opposed to "rural" (villages). These criteria are not limited to the settlement size, but also include the percentage of residents engaged in agriculture, population density etc. Thus, not all towns in statistical sense are greater than villages, and they are not always municipality centers. Note that the population of the city municipalities of some cities were not presented as unique, but united in the city population.
| Coat of arms | City/Town | DistrictOkrug | Area [km<sup>2</sup>] | Population (city per census) | Landmark | |||||
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| City | Urban | 1991 | 2002 | 2011 | 2022 | |||||
| BelgradeБеоград | Belgrade | 359.9 | 1,035 | 1,170,145 | 1,119,642 | 1,166,763 | 1,197,714 | |||
| Novi SadНови Сад | South Bačka | 106.2 | 129.4 | 189,234 | 210,238 | 250,439 | 280,763 | |||
| NišНиш | Nišava | - | 266.8 | 175,649 | 175,631 | 183,164 | 182,797 | |||
| KragujevacКрагујевац | Šumadija | - | 82.8 | 147,305 | 146,373 | 150,835 | 146,315 | |||
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| Požarevac ¤ | 53,772 | |||||||||
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See main article: Municipalities of Kosovo and List of cities in Kosovo.
The city of Belgrade consists of 17 city municipalities.
The city of Novi Sad consists of two city municipalities: Novi Sad and Petrovaradin.
The city of Niš consists of five city municipalities: Medijana, Palilula, Pantelej, Crveni Krst and Niška Banja.
The city of Vranje consists of two city municipalities: City municipality of Vranje and Vranjska Banja.
The city of Užice consists of two city municipalities: City municipality of Užice and Sevojno
The city of Požarevac consists of two city municipalities: City municipality of Požarevac and Kostolac.