Županja
Appearance
Coat of arms | |
Coordinates | 45°04′N 18°42′E / 45.07°N 18.70°E |
Mayor | Davor Miličević |
Surface (km²) | 88,94 |
Population (2006) |
13,858 [1] |
Time zone (UTC) | UTC+1 Central European Time |
Županja is a city in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 254 km east of Zagreb. It is administratively part of the Vukovar-Srijem county. It is inhabited by 13,775 people (2001), 96.45% which are Croats, with 2,608 more living in Štitar, a village located immediately to the north and part of the same municipality.
Županja lies on the Sava river opposite Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the site of a border-crossing bridge with the mostly Croat town of Orašje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The highway Zagreb-Slavonski Brod-Belgrade passes north of it, and the city is also reachable by a local railroad from Vinkovci.