Bačka Palanka (Serbian: Бачка Паланка or Bačka Palanka; Slovak: Báčska Palanka; Croatian: Bačka Palanka; Hungarian: Bácspalánka; German: Plankenburg) is a city located in Serbia and Montenegro at 45.25° North, 19.39° East. Its name means "A town in Bačka" in Serbian. In 2002 the city had a total population of 29,431, while Bačka Palanka municipality had 60,938 inhabitants. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... Car number plates in the former Yugoslavia showed the place where the car carrying them was registered, in the form of a two letter code. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Å tokavian dialect (former standard was known as Serbo-Croatian language). ... Bačka (Serbian: Бачка or Bačka, Hungarian: Bácska, Croatian: Bačka, Slovak: Báčka, German: Batschka) is an area of the Pannonian plain lying between the rivers Danube and Tisa. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

Inhabited places

Bačka Palanka municipality includes the city of Bačka Palanka and the following villages:

• Vizić
• Gajdobra
• Despotovo
• Karađorđevo
• Mladenovo
• Neštin
• Nova Gajdobra
• Obrovac
• Parage
• Pivnice
• Silbaš
• Tovariševo
• Čelarevo

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Ethnic groups (2002 census)

The population of the Bačka Palanka municipality:

• Serbs = 47,916 (78.59%)
• Slovaks = 5,837 (9.57%)
• Hungarians = 1,490 (2.44%)
• Yugoslavs = 1,041 (1.7%)
• Croats = 982 (1.61%)
• Roma = 841 (1.37%)
• Others.

Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority, while the village of Pivnice have an ethnic Slovak majority. Serbs (in the Serbian language Срби, Srbi) are a south Slavic people living chiefly in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Yugoslavs were a relatively short-lived nationality that was created at the time of Yugoslavia. ... Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. ... The Roma people (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom), often referred to as Gypsies, are a heterogeneous ethnic group who live primarily in Southern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Latin America, southern states of North America and the Middle East. ...

External links

• Bačka Palanka Online
• Tripod site