Petnjica Municipality

Petnjica Municipality Opština Petnjica Општина Петњица
Municipality
Petnjica Municipality in Montenegro
Country	Montenegro
Seat	Petnjica
Area
• Total	173 km^2 (67 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
• Total	4,957
• Density	29/km^2 (74/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	84312
Area code	+382 51
ISO 3166 code	ME-23
Website	www.petnjica.co.me

Petnjica Municipality (Montenegrin: Opština Petnjica / Општина Петњица) is one of the municipalities of Montenegro. The municipality is located in northern Montenegro. The center is Petnjica. The Petnjica Municipality was created in 2013, when it was split from the Berane Municipality.^[1]

Subdivisions

Petnjica Municipality is divided into 7 local communities (Montenegrin Latin: mjesne zajednice, singular: mjesna zajednica) with 25 settlements (naselja, singular: naselje).^[2] The local communities are: Bor (Bor and Ponor), Petnjica (Petnjica, Godočelje, Johovica, Lagatori, Lazi, Pahulj and Radmanci), Savin Bor (Savin Bor, Dašča Rijeka, Dobrodole and Kruščica), Javorova (Javorova, Murovac and Poroče), Trpezi (Trpezi and Kalica), Tucanje (Tucanje, Azane, Lješnica, Orahovo and Vrševo) and Vrbica (Upper Vrbica and Lower Vrbica).

Local parliament

Party	Seats[3]	Gov't.
Democratic Party of Socialists	16	Yes
Bosniak Party	6	Yes
Social Democrats	2	Yes
Social Democratic Party	1	No
Bosniak Democratic Union	3	No
Democratic Montenegro	2	No

Demographics

The Village of Petnjica is the administrative center of the Petnjica Municipality, which had a population of 4,957 in 2023. The village of Petnjica itself had a population of around 500. The ethnic groups in the Petnjica Municipality, according to the 2023 census:

Bosniaks   83.96% Muslims   9.30% Montenegrins   4.74% Serbs   0.95% Others   1.6%

References

1. Crna Gora: Petnjica dobila status opštine (in Serbian) 28 May 2013.
2. Rastoder, Rifat; Čantrić, Drago; Hadrović, Fahrudin (27 December 2011). "Predlog zakona o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o Teritorijalnoj Organiziciji Crne Gore" (PDF). Parliament of Montenegro. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2015.
3. "as of January 04, 2018". Archived from the original on January 5, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2019.