Berkovići

Berkovići

Берковићи
Berkovići Берковићи
Village and municipality
	Berkovići
	Location of Berkovići within Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Coordinates: 43°05′41″N 18°09′52″E / 43.09472°N 18.16444°E
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Government
• Mayor	Nenad Abramović (SDS)
Area
• Total	249.69 km2 (96.41 sq mi)
Population (2013 census)
• Total	2,114
• Density	8.5/km2 (22/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	59
Website	www.opstinaberkovici.com

Berkovići (Serbian Cyrillic: Берковићи) is a village and municipality located in southern Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 2,114 inhabitants.

Geography

The municipality is located in the westernmost part of East Herzegovina.

The municipality was created in 1995, after the Bosnian War, out of the Republika Srpska-controlled portions of the pre-war municipality of Stolac (now in Federation of B&H).

Aside from the town of Berkovići, the municipality includes the following settlements:

Berkovići also contains parts of the following settlements:

Population of settlements – Berkovići municipality
	Settlement	1938.	1953.	1961.	1971.	1981.	1991.	2013.
	Total	2,573	3,166					2,114
1	Berkovići			747	749	651	159	230
2	Hatelji						468	409
3	Ljuti Do						316	233
4	Meča						88	300


Ethnic composition – Berkovići town
	2013	1991.	1981.	1971.
Total	240 (100,0%)	159 (100,0%)	651 (100,0%)	749 (100,0%)
Serbs	238 (99,17%)	147 (97,484%)	611 (93,856%)	744 (100,0%)
Croats	2 (0,83%)		1 (0,154%)	1 (0,134%)
Bosniaks		4 (2,516%)	4 (0,614%)
Yugoslavs			33 (5,069%)
Other			2 (0,307%)	2 (0,267%)
Montenegrins				1 (0,134%)
Macedonians				1 (0,134%)


Ethnic composition – Berkovići municipality
	2013
Total	2,114 (100,0%)
Serbs	1,942 (91,86%)
Bosniaks	159 (7,52%)
Croats	11 (0,52%)
Others	2 (0,09%)

The municipality is underdeveloped and much of the economic activity is agricultural.^{[citation needed]}