Map showing the location of the Brčko District within Bosnia and Herzegovina (in red, upper right corner)

Brčko or Брчко (in Serbian Cyrillic) is a city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Brčko is the seat of the Brčko District, a special administrative unit that belong to both, Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but is rather under direct national and local administration, aided by an international supervisor. The current international supervisor for Brčko is Susan Johnson of the United States of America. The creation of this district is often regarded as breach of the Dayton Agreement, particularly in the Republika Srpska.

Brčko has the largest port in Bosnia, on the Sava river. It is also home to an economics faculty and to a rather important theater festival. Before the war, the Municipality of Brčko had 87,332 inhabitants (1991 census), 44% of whom were Muslims, 25% Croats and 21% Serbs. According to the mayor Branko Damjanac, the current population is 40% Serbs, 39% Bosniaks and 20% Croats. The Brčko District covers an area of 208 km² and has around 50,000 inhabitants.

The city's most famous citizen is Lepa Brena (real name Fahreta Jahić Živojinović), a Bosnian and Serbian popular folk music singer.

External Links

• History and Mandate of the OHR North/Brcko (http://www.ohr.int/ohr-offices/brcko/history/default.asp?content_id=5531)

Cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Banja Luka | Bihać | Bijeljina | Bosanska Gradiška | Bosanska Krupa | Brčko | Bugojno | Cazin | Derventa | Doboj | Foča | Gračanica | Gradačac | Kakanj | Ilidža | Livno | Lukavac | Mostar | Neum | Prijedor | Sanski Most | Sarajevo | Srebrenica | Teslić | Tešanj | Travnik | Trebinje | Tuzla | Velika Kladuša | Visoko | Zavidovići | Zenica | Zvornik | Živinice

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