This is article about ethnic groups in Vojvodina, province of Serbia.
There are 1,190,785 Serbs in Vojvodina or 68.4% of the population of the province. Serbs make up majority in 26 of 37 cities and municipalities in Vojvodina. Cities and municipalities with an ethnic Serb majority are: PeÃÂinci (89.3%), Sremska Mitrovica (86.1%), Titel (85.6%), InÃÂija (85.5%), Opovo (84.7%), Ruma (84.6%), à ½abalj (82.6%), Stara Pazova (82.6%), Odà ¾aci (82.4%), Irig (79.5%), Sremski Karlovci (79.3%), à  id (79.3%), PanÃÂevo (79.2%), BaÃÂka Palanka (78.8%), Novi Sad (78.3%), Kovin (76.9%), Zrenjanin (76.6%), Kikinda (75.8%), Bela Crkva (75.1%), Vrà ¡ac (72.1%), Temerin (69.8%), BeoÃÂin (69.4%), SeÃÂanj (68.8%), Novi BeÃÂej (68.4%), Srbobran (67.7%), Nova Crnja (67.2%), Sombor (63.7%), à ½itià ¡te (62.7%), Apatin (62.6%), Kula (62.4%), Vrbas (62.1%), Alibunar (58.5%), Novi Kneà ¾evac (58%), and Plandià ¡te (58%). Serbs form relative majority of the population in Baà(45.6%), BeÃÂej (42.3%), and Subotica (34.3%).
Serbian is the official language in Serbia and is spoken by 76.4% of inhabitants of Vojvodina.
There are 182,321 Hungarians in Vojvodina or 10.5% of the population and they are the second largest ethnic group in the region. Hungarians mostly live in northern Vojvodina (northern BaÃÂka and northern Banat). They constitute an absolute majority in five municipalities: Kanjià ¾a (83.1%), Senta (75.7%), Ada (72.7%), BaÃÂka Topola (55.6%), and Mali IÃÂoà ¡ (51.8%). In ÃÂoka, ethnically mixed municipality with no absolute majority held by any ethnic group, ethnic Hungarians constitute the largest share of the population, 44.8%.
Hungarian is one of the official languages of the provincial administration of Vojvodina and is spoken by 9.7% of inhabitants of the province.
There are 40,938 Roma in Vojvodina or 2.3% of the population. The largest concentration of Roma could be found in the municipalities of Nova Crnja (11.4%), BeoÃÂin (8.9%), and Novi Kneà ¾evac (8.6%).
There are 39,807 Slovaks in Vojvodina or 2.3% of population. Slovaks constitute an absolute majority in the municipality of BaÃÂki Petrovac (60.6%) and they also constitute the relative majority of the population in KovaÃÂica municipality (41%). The settlements with Slovak majority are KovaÃÂica (76.5%) and Padina (92.6%) in the municipality of KovaÃÂica municipality; BaÃÂki Petrovac (75.1%), Kulpin (65.3%), and Gloà ¾an (79.8%) in the municipality of BaÃÂki Petrovac; Lug (91.7%) in the municipality of BeoÃÂin; SelenÃÂa (87.8%) in the municipality of BaÃÂ; Janoà ¡ik (85.1%) in the municipality of Alibunar; Pivnice (73.2%) in the municipality of BaÃÂka Palanka; Kisaà(69.5%) in the City of Novi Sad; SlankamenaÃÂki Vinogradi (66.3%) in the municipality of InÃÂija; and Ljuba (51.5%) in the municipality of à  id. The settlements with Slovak plurality include Lalià(44.9%) in the municipality of Odà ¾aci, HajduÃÂica (36.5%) in the municipality of Plandià ¡te, and Belo Blato (33.7%) in the City of Zrenjanin.
Slovak is one of the official languages of the provincial administration of Vojvodina and is spoken by 2.1% of the population of the province.
There are 32,684 Croats in Vojvodina or 1.9% of the population. The largest concentration of Croats is found in the municipalities of Apatin (8.9%) and Subotica (7.4%). They form majority of population in two villages BaÃÂki Monoà ¡tor (52.3% of population) and BaÃÂki Breg (52.1%), both in the administrative area of the city of Sombor; and relative majorities in the village of Sonta (47.2%) in the municipality of Apatin, as well as in the following villages of administrative city of Subotica: Donji Tavankut (42.2%), Mala Bosna (39%), ÃÂurÃÂin (36.2%), Stari à ½ednik (31%), and Bikovo (24.5%).Most of Bunjevci and almost all of à  okci of Vojvodina declare themselves as Croats.
Croatian is one of the official languages of the provincial administration of Vojvodina and is spoken by 0.5% of the population of the province.
There are 19,595 Romanians in Vojvodina or 1.1% of the population. The largest concentrations of Romanians are found in the municipalities of Alibunar (23.3%) and Vrà ¡ac (9.2%). They settled in Banat during great migrations of Balkan peoples caused by Ottoman conquest, and also during the Habsburg rule.
Romanian is one of the official languages of the provincial administration of Vojvodina and is spoken by 1% of the population of the province.
There are 12,438 Yugoslavs in Vojvodina or 0.7% of the population. They mostly speak Serbian.
There are 12,424 Montenegrins in Vojvodina or 0.7% of the population; however, these figures do not include those who have partial or full ancestry from present-day Montenegro, but identify ethnically as Serb, though many also claim a fairly strong Montenegrin regional identity. Montenegrins settled in Vojvodina during the 20th century, mostly shortly after World War II. The largest concentration of ethnic Montenegrins could be found in the municipalities of central BaÃÂka: Mali IÃÂoà ¡ (12.3%), Vrbas (11.6%), and Kula (5.6%). Settlements with significant share of Montenegrins include: LovÃÂenac (37.3%) in Mali IÃÂoà ¡ municipality, Savino Selo (17.9%) in Vrbas municipality, and Kruà ¡ÃÂià(16%) in Kula municipality. They mostly speak Serbian.
There are 11,207 Rusyns in Vojvodina or 0.6% of the population. The largest concentration of Rusyns could be found in the municipalities of Kula (10.1%), Vrbas (7.7%), à ½abalj (4%), and à  id (2.9%). There is only one settlement with ethnic Rusyn majority, Ruski Krstur (77%) in Kula municipality, and two with ethnic Rusyn relative majority: Kucura (42.3%) in Vrbas municipality, and BikiàDo (41.2%) in à  id municipality.
The Rusyn is one of the official languages of the provincial administration of Vojvodina and is spoken by 0.5% of the population of the province.
There are 10,949 Bunjevci in Vojvodina or 0.6% of the population. The largest concentrations of Bunjevci are found in the cities of Subotica (7.3%) and Sombor (1.8%). Settlements with ethnic Bunjevac relative majority include two villages in the administrative area of the City of Subotica: Ljutovo (31%) and Gornji Tavankut (26.6%). Members of Bunjevci community are divided among themselves on the question of ethnic identity since many identify themselves as Croats, with many cases in which one sibling has declared as Bunjevac, while the other one has declared as Croat. In the past, they spoke a specific Ikavian-Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian language, while nowadays they mostly declare their language as Serbian.
There are 7,021 Macedonians in Vojvodina or 0.4% of the population. The largest concentrations of Macedonians are found in southern Banat, in the municipality of Plandià ¡te (7.7%) and the city of PanÃÂevo (2.6%). Macedonians form significant part of populations in two villages located in the administrative area of city of PanÃÂevo, Jabuka (23.7%) and KaÃÂarevo (11.2%), as well as in the village of Duà ¾ine (27%) in municipality of Plandià ¡te. They settled in Vojvodina during the 20th century, mostly after World War II. They mostly speak Serbian.
There are 1,985 Germans (or Danube Swabians and Banat Swabians) in Vojvodina or just 0.1% of the population. The German population was far more numerous in the past (about 350,000 before the World War II). More than 250,000 left in the aftermath of World War II when the Yugoslav Communist government took reprisals on ethnic Germans with their citizenship revoked and their belongings and houses nationalized and taken from them. Between 1944 and 1946, a prison camp system was established for Yugoslav citizens of German origin, usually in settlements where they lived. After prison camps were abolished, ethnic Germans of Yugoslavia regained their rights and citizenship and most of them emigrated to Germany or Austria in the following years because of economic reasons. Before the World War II, Germans were majority in the municipalities of Odà ¾aci (68.9%), Vrbas (61.1%), and Apatin (60.3%).
There are 1,317 Czechs in Vojvodina. The largest concentration of Czechs could be found in the municipality of Bela Crkva (3%). A tiny village of ÃÂeà ¡ko Selo, in the Bela Crkva municipality, is the only settlement with ethnic Czech majority (65.4%). They mostly speak Serbian.
There are 1,123 Bulgarians in Vojvodina. The Banat Bulgarians are a traditional Bulgarian Roman Catholic minority in the Banat region, the Serbian part of which belongs to Vojvodina. They are historically present in the villages of Ivanovo, Belo Blato, Konak (Kanak), Jaà ¡a Tomià(Modoà ¡), Skorenovac (Gjurgevo), as well towns of PanÃÂevo, Zrenjanin, Vrà ¡ac, and Kovin.