The Southern and Eastern Serbia () is one of five statistical regions of Serbia. It is also a Level-2 statistical region according to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS).
History In 2009, the National Assembly adopted a law which divided Serbia into seven statistical regions. At first, it was decided that in the territory of current statistical region of Southern and Eastern Serbia there would be two statistical regions – Eastern Region () and Southern Region (). However, in 2010, the law was changed, thus the Eastern and Southern regions were merged into a single statistical region named Southern and Eastern Serbia.
Administrative districts The statistical region of Southern and Eastern Serbia encompasses 9 administrative districts:
District Area (km2) Population (2022) Seat Podunavlje 1,250 175,573 Smederevo Braničevo 3,865 156,367 Požarevac Bor 3,510 101,100 Bor Zaječar 3,623 96,715 Zaječar Nišava 2,727 343,950 Niš Pirot 2,761 76,700 Pirot Toplica 2,229 77,341 Prokuplje Jablanica 2,770 184,502 Leskovac Pčinja 3,520 193,802 Vranje
Demographics The region is heavily affected by depopulation. Most critical situation is in municipalities of Gadžin Han, Crna Trava, Ražanj, Trgovište, Dimitrovgrad, and Bosilegrad. A stark example of depopulation is Crna Trava, which used to have 13,614 inhabitants in 1948, while in 2022 only 1,063 people were registered.
Cities and towns The following list include cities and towns with over 20,000 inhabitants. City or town Population (2022) Niš 182,797 Smederevo 59,261 Leskovac 58,338 Vranje 50,954 Požarevac 42,530 Pirot 34,942 Zaječar 32,448 Bor 28,822 Prokuplje 24,627 Smederevska Palanka 20,345
Ethnic structure
+EthnicityPopulation (2022)ShareSerbs1,173,09283.4%Albanians58,1454.1%Roma50,6713.6%Vlachs19,5691.4%Bulgarians10,5540.7%Undeclared20,4951.4%Unknown59,7254.2%
See also Statistical regions of Serbia Šumadija and Western Serbia
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External links
Usvojene izmene i dopune Zakona o regionalnom-razvoju (in Serbian)