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Vojvodina

Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Flag of Vojvodina
Coat of arms of Vojvodina
Flag Coat of arms
Traditional Symbols of Vojvodina
Tradicionalna zastava Vojvodine sa grbom.svg Tradicionalni grb Vojvodine.svg
Map of Vojvodina within Serbia
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
Igor Mirović (SNS)
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)
ISO 3166 code RS-VO
  1. ^ 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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