Kosovo Municipalities

Kosovo Municipalities

A Municipality (Albanian: komuna, Serbian: општина, transliterated opština) is the basic administrative division in Kosovo. There are 38 municipalities in Kosovo, although because of the continuing dispute over Kosovo's political status, Serbia does not recognise the legality of those created since Kosovo's independence in February 2008. Ten of the municipalities have Serb majorities, and contain about 90% of all Serbs in Kosovo. Some of the Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo function mainly under "parallel structures" which are not in turn recognised by the Government of Kosovo; but in functional terms the borders of municipalities under Kosovo legislation reflect the realities of divisions between local administrations.