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Sombor Apatin Kula Odžaci West Bačka
District

West Bačka District (Template:Lang-sr) is a northern district of Serbia. It lies in the region of Bačka, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It has a population of 215,916. The seat of the district is Sombor.

Name

In Serbian, the district is known as Zapadnobački okrug or Западнобачки округ, in Croatian as Zapadnobački okrug, in Bunjevac as Zapadnobački okrug, in Hungarian as Nyugat Bácskai Körzet, in Slovak as Západnobáčsky okres, in Rusyn as Заходнобачки окрух, and in Romanian as Districtul Bacica de Vest.

Municipalities

It encompasses the municipalities of:

Ethnic groups

District population is composed of:

Serbs (67.2%),
Hungarians (10.19%),
Croats (6.05%),
Yugoslavs (3.21%),
Rusyns (2.58%),
Bunjevci (1.31%),
Others.

Culture

Sombor is a town of rich cultural tradition: the Roman Catholic church and the Franciscan Monastery from the 18th century, the Perish House originating from the early nineteenth century, the iconostasis of the Big and Small Orthodox church in Stapar are protected monuments registered as cultural heritage, which bare witness to the long history of this town.

Economy

Today the municipality of Sombor has 1,000 km² of agricultural land, out of which 970 km² makes up the arable land. Besides farming, also cattle raising plays an important part.

Still more dynamic development is achieved in industry, with the prevailing "Bane" metal complex, the Sombor battery factory, the "Crvena zastava" van factory, the "Dunav" shipyard, and particularly food industry which with the capacities of its "Sunce" oil factory and "Somboled" diary, carries out entirely all the processing of the agricultural yield.

External links

v t e Cities, towns and villages in the West Bačka District
Sombor	Aleksa Šantić Bački Breg Bački Monoštor Bezdan Gakovo Doroslovo Kljajićevo Kolut Rastina Riđica Svetozar Miletić Stanišić Stapar Telečka Čonoplja
Apatin	Kupusina Prigrevica Svilojevo Sonta
Kula	Kruščić Lipar Nova Crvenka Ruski Krstur Sivac Crvenka
Odžaci	Bački Brestovac Bački Gračac Bogojevo Deronje Karavukovo Lalić Ratkovo Srpski Miletić
bold are municipalities or cities

v t e Districts of Serbia
Vojvodina	Central Banat North Bačka North Banat South Bačka South Banat Srem West Bačka
Belgrade	City of Belgrade
Šumadija and Western Serbia	Kolubara Mačva Moravica Pomoravlje Rasina Raška Šumadija Zlatibor
Southern and Eastern Serbia	Bor Braničevo Jablanica Nišava Pčinja Pirot Podunavlje Toplica Zaječar
Kosovo and Metohija	Kosovo Kosovo-Pomoravlje Kosovska Mitrovica Peć Prizren
Kosovo declared independence in 2008 but is still claimed as part of its territory by Serbia.

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