Municipalities and cities of Serbia

Like in many other countries, municipalities () are the basic entities of local government in Serbia. The head of the municipality is the President of the municipality, while the executive power is held by the Municipal council, and legislative power by the Municipal assembly. The municipal assembly is elected on local elections (held every 4 years), while the President and the Council are elected by the Assembly. Municipalities have their own property (including public service companies) and budget. Only the cities officially have mayors (), although the municipal presidents are often informally referred to as such. The territory of a municipality is composed of a town (seat of the municipality) and surrounding villages (e.g. the territory of the Municipality of Čoka is composed of the town of Čoka, which is the seat of the municipality, and surrounding villages). The municipality bears the name of the seat town. Advocates of reform of local self-government system point out that Serbian municipalities are the largest in Europe by territory and as such can be inefficient in handling citizens' needs and distributing the income from the country budget into most relevant projects. The largest municipalitity by population is Stara Pazova (62,318). List of municipalities ==Cities==

Cities () are another type of local self-government. The territory with the city status usually has more than 50,000 inhabitants (although there are several cities with population smaller than that), but is otherwise very similar to a municipality. The city may or may not be divided into city municipalities (). Six cities: Belgrade, Niš, Požarevac, Užice, and Vranje comprise several city municipalities. Competences of cities and these municipalities are divided. The municipalities of these cities also have their assemblies and other prerogatives. The largest city municipalitity by population is New Belgrade (209,763). List of cities ==Municipalities of Kosovo==

Serbian law still treats Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia (officially the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija), although the United Nations administration (UNMIK) has established a new territorial organization of that territory. The Law on Territorial Organization defines 28 municipalities and 1 city on the territory of Kosovo. However, the Government of Serbia does not recognise the territorial re-organisation of Kosovo, although some of these new-formed municipalities have Serb majority, and some Serbs participate in local elections. In three of those municipalities: Gračanica, Klokot-Vrbovac and Ranilug, Serbian parties won a majority in the 2009 elections. By the 2013 Brussels Agreement, Serbia agreed to disband its parallel municipal institutions in Kosovo, while the authorities of Kosovo agreed on creation of the Community of Serb Municipalities. However, both parties acted slowly to put this agreement in power. ==See also==