Banovci, Brod-Posavina County

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Location of Banovci in Croatia
Coordinates: 45°04′N17°49′E / 45.067°N 17.817°E / 45.067; 17.817 Coordinates: 45°04′N17°49′E / 45.067°N 17.817°E / 45.067; 17.817
Country Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
County Flag of Brod-Posavina County.svg Brod-Posavina
Population (2001)
  Total 400
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code35254 Bebrina
Area code(s) 035

Banovci is a village in the municipality of Bebrina in the central part of Brod-Posavina county. From the 2011 census the village had a population of 400 inhabitants in which over 90% declare themselves Croats, other residents are Ukrainians and others. [1]

Village Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.

Municipality An administrative division having corporate status and usually some powers of self-government or jurisdiction

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Croats Slavic ethnic group

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Geography

It is located 20 km southwest of Slavonski Brod, 3 km north of Bosnia.

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