The BACKA SOUTH expands in the central part of the Pannonian Plain, in the north of Serbia. This district encompasses the municipalities of: Srbobran, Bac, Becej, Vrbas, Backa Palanka, Backi Petrovac, Zabalj, Novi Sad, Titel, Temerin, Beocin, and Sremski Karlovci.

It has a population of 553,027. Seat of the District is Novi Sad, the biggest city in the Serbia's Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

Novi Sad has roofed the first Serb elementary school (1703), the first Serb Grammer School (1871), a number of museums and galleries among which the most famous are the Museum of Vojvodina, and the City Library (1844).

Novi Sad is the residence of the oldest cultural-scientific Institution of the Serb People: the Mariachi Srpska, founded in 1862, as well as of the Serb National Theater (1861). Within the District the following industries prevail: chemical, oil, machines, tools and electrical porcelain, textile, food, and building industry.

District Seat ADDRESS
21000 Novi Sad, 16 Mihajla Pupina Bul.
Tel./Fax:021-56 001, 51 477, 56-18