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Subotica (Serbian Cyrillic: Суботица, , Hungarian: Szabadka) is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. It is located at 46.07° North, 19.68° East, about 10 km from the border with Hungary. Once the second largest town in Hungary and became also the second largest town in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1920) after the Treaty of Trianon. Contemporary Subotica is the second largest town of the Vojvodina region following Novi Sad and the fifth largest in Serbia after Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac. Among the most multiethnic cities in Serbia with a relative Hungarian majority, the city's population numbers 99,981 (according to the 2002 census). Likewise, today it is Serbia's fifth largest town, with the municipality of Subotica numbering 148,401 people. It is the administrative centre of the North Bačka District. |
