Central Banat District


The Central Banat District is one of seven administrative districts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It lies in the geographical region of Banat. According to the 2011 census results, it has a population of 186,851 inhabitants. The administrative center is the city of Zrenjanin.

Name

In Serbian, the district is known as Srednjobanatski okrug or Средњобанатски округ, in Croatian as Srednjobanatski okrug, in Hungarian as Közép-bánsági körzet, in Slovak as Sredobanátsky okres, in Romanian as Districtul Banatul Central, and in Rusyn as Стредобанатски окрух.

Municipalities

It encompasses the city of Zrenjanin and the following municipalities:
According to the last official census done in 2011, the Central Banat District has 187,667 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups

Ethnic composition of the Central Banat district:
Ethnic groupPopulation%
Serbs134,26471.54%
Hungarians23,55012.55%
Romani7,2673.87%
Romanians4,2142.25%
Slovaks2,1351.14%
Croats7960.42%
Yugoslavs7690.41%
Macedonians5210.28%
Montenegrins3780.20%
Bulgarians2980.16%
Germans2190.12%
Albanians1940.10%
Muslims1160.06%
Slovenes1130.06%
Russians1080.06%
Others12,7256.78%
Total187,667

Churches

There are many buildings that stand out by their beauty: the Orthodox Church of Assumption from 1746, the Roman Catholic Church in Arač from 13th century and the Roman Catholic Cathedral from 1868 and the Reformatory Church from 1891.