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Kanjiža (Serbian: Kanjiža or Кањижа; Hungarian: Magyarkanizsa) is a town and municipality in the North Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia and Montenegro. The town has a population of 10,193, while Kanjiža municipality has 27,440 inhabitants.
Inhabited places
Kanjiža municipality includes the town of Kanjiža and 12 villages. The villages are:
- Adorjan (Hungarian: Adorján)
- Doline (Hungarian: Völgyes)
- Horgoš (Hungarian: Horgos)
- Male Pijace (Hungarian: Kispiac)
- Mali Pesak (Hungarian: Kishomok)
- Martonoš (Hungarian: Martonos)
- Novo Selo (Hungarian: Újfalu)
- Orom (Hungarian: Orom)
- Totovo Selo (Hungarian: Tóthfalu)
- Trešnjevac (Hungarian: Oromhegyes)
- Velebit
- Zimonić (Hungarian: Ilonafalu)
Note: For the inhabited places with Hungarian ethnic majority, the names are also given in Hungarian.
Ethnic groups (2002 census)
The population of the Kanjiža municipality is composed of:
- Hungarians = 23,802 (forming the absolute majority of 86.52%)
- Serbs = 2,037 (7.4%)
- Roma = 530 (1.92%)
- Others.
Most of local communities have Hungarian majorities except Velebit, which is predominantly Serb.