Ethnic Groups
The major ethnic groups (2002) are:
- Serbs: 220,641 (70.28%)
- Romanians: 21,618 (6.88%)
- Hungarians: 15,444 (4.91%)
- Slovaks: 15,212 (4.84%)
- Macedonians: 7,636 (2.43%)
- Roma: 6,268 (1.99%)
- Yugoslavs: 5,687 (1.81%)
Most of the municipalities in the district have an ethnic Serb majority, while the municipality of Kovačica is ethnically mixed, with a relative Slovak majority (41%).
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