Voivodina

Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

Аутономна Покрајина Војводина (sr-cyr)
Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina (sr-lat)
Vajdaság Autonóm Tartomány (hu)
Autonómna pokrajina Vojvodina (sk)
Provincia Autonomă Voivodina (ro)
Автономна Покраїна Войводина (rue)


Flag	Coat of arms

Traditional Symbols of Vojvodina

Map of Vojvodina within Serbia

Capital
and largest city

Novi Sad
(Administrative centre)

Official languages

Serbian
Hungarian
Slovak
Romanian
Croatian
Rusyn

Country

Serbia

Government

Autonomous province

• President of the Government

Igor Mirović (SNS)

• President of the Assembly

István Pásztor (SVM)

Legislature

Assembly

Establishment

• Formation of Serbian Vojvodina

1848

• Establishment

1944

Area

• Total

21,506 km² (8,304 sq mi)

Population

• 2011 census

1,931,809

• Density

90/km² (233.1/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

^ Serbian and Croatian are considered by the local authorities to constitute separate languages, but are standardized varieties of the Serbo-Croatian language.

Coordinates: 45°24′58″N 20°11′53″E / 45.416°N 20.198°E / 45.416; 20.198

Vojvodina (Serbian Cyrillic: Војводина), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Војводина / Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina, [ʋǒjʋodina]; see Names in other languages), is an autonomous province of Serbia, located in the northern part of the country, in the Pannonian Plain. Novi Sad is the largest city and administrative center of Vojvodina and the second-largest city in Serbia. Vojvodina has a population of almost 2 million (approximately 26.88% of Serbia's population excluding Kosovo). It has a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural identity; there are some 26 ethnic groups in the province, and six languages are in official use by the provincial administration.

The term vojvodina in Serbian means a type of duchy – more specifically, a voivodeship. It derives from the word "vojvoda" (See: voivode) which stems from the Proto-Slavic language word "voevoda". Those words are etymologically connected with modern-day words "vojnik" (soldier) and "voditi" (to lead). Its original name (from 1848) was the "Serbian Voivodeship" (Српска Војводина / Srpska Vojvodina) which then became "Voivodeship of Serbia" (Војводство Србија / Vojvodstvo Srbija).

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