Belgrade is Serbia’s capital and the largest city. It lies at the confluence between the Sava-Danube rivers, the Crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, and the Balkan Peninsula. The City of Belgrade is home to nearly 1.7 million people.

Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina autonomous province, is Serbia’s second largest city. It is situated in the southern part of the Pannonian Plain, at the border of Syrmia and Backa. The city is located on the banks of the Danube River and faces the northern slopes of Fruska Gora.

Novi Sad has a population estimate of 250,439, while the urban area, which includes the nearby settlements Petrovaradin, and Sremska Kamenica, contains 277,522 residents. The city’s administrative area has 341,625 inhabitants.

Nis is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nisava District. It is located in southern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the population of the city is 183,164. The City of Nis, its administrative area, has a population of 260,237.

Numerous Roman emperors were either born in Nis or lived there; Constantine I. Claudius Gothicus, an Emperor, defeated the Goths at the Battle of Naissus (present-day Nis). The city’s history would later earn it the title Imperial City.

Kragujevac, the fourth largest city in Serbia, is also the administrative center of Sumadija. It is located on the banks of the Lepenica River and is the historical center of Sumadija, central Serbia’s geographical region. The 2011 census shows that the city itself has a population totaling 150,835 with a total area of 179,417 residents.

Kragujevac was established as the capital of modern Serbia. In 1838, the Sretenje Constitution was also proclaimed in the city. During World War I, a unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service was located in Kragujevac. Kragujevac, which was home to 2,778 Serb boys and men, was the scene of a massacre by Nazis during the Second World War.

Novi Pazar is a city in the Raska District in southwestern Serbia. According to the 2011 census, 66,527 people lived in the urban area, and 100,410 residents were in the city’s administrative area. It is the cultural heart of the Bosniaks of Serbia and the region of Sandzak.

The region is a multicultural area of Orthodox Christians and Muslims. Many monuments of both faiths can be found here, including the Altun-Alem Mosque and the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. Thirty cultural monuments have been designated as protected.