Communes of Montenegro

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Updates: 

Remo Castagna pointed out an error in the figure for Bar under Pop-2004, also affecting the total of that column.

ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-12, dated 2006-09-26, announces the splitting of Serbia and Montenegro into two countries. ISO 3166-2 Newsletter I-8, published on 2007-04-17, has ISO codes for the municipalities of Montenegro. They are shown in the table below.

FIPS 10-4 Change Notice 11, dated 2006-07-11, assigned new FIPS codes to Serbia and Montenegro as separate countries.

The international dialing prefix +382 has been assigned to Montenegro. When Serbia and Montenegro were united, they used the prefix +381. Now that prefix will apply to Serbia alone, after a six-month permissive period.

Country overview: 

Short nameMONTENEGRO
ISO codeME
FIPS codeMJ
LanguageSerbian (sr)
Time zone+1~
CapitalPodgorica

 

Montenegro was an independent kingdom at the start of the 20th century. It was annexed to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes when the latter was formed on 1918-12-01. The unified country's name became Yugoslavia in 1929. After the fall of Communism, Yugoslavia gradually split up into its former constituent republics. Montenegro was the last to split from Serbia in 2006.

Other names of country: 

  1. Danish: Montenegro
  2. Dutch: Montenegro
  3. Finnish: Montenegro
  4. French: Monténégro m
  5. German: Montenegro n
  6. Icelandic: Svartfjallaland
  7. Italian: Montenegro m
  8. Norwegian: Montenegro
  9. Portuguese: Montenegro m
  10. Serbian: Crna Gora
  11. Spanish: Montenegro m
  12. Swedish: Montenegro
  13. Turkish: Karadağ

Origin of name: 

Italian calque of Serbian crna: black, gora: mountain

Primary subdivisions: 

Montenegro is divided into 21 opštini (communes, or municipalities).

CommuneHASCISOPop-2004Pop-2003Area(km.²)Area(mi.²)
AndrijevicaME.AN015,7856,384283109
BarME.BA0240,03745,223598231
BeraneME.BE0335,06840,885717277
Bijelo PoljeME.BP0450,28457,124924357
BudvaME.BU0515,90916,09512247
CetinjeME.CE0618,48218,749899347
DanilovgradME.DA0716,52316,400501193
Herceg NoviME.HN0833,03433,97123591
KolašinME.KL099,9499,975897346
KotorME.KT1022,94723,481335129
MojkovacME.MK1110,06610,274367142
NikšićME.NK1275,28276,6712,065797
PlavME.PV1313,80521,604486188
PljevljaME.PL1435,80636,9181,346520
PlužineME.PU154,2724,294854330
PodgoricaME.PG16169,132179,4031,399540
RožajeME.RO1722,69327,562432167
ŠavnikME.SA182,9472,972553214
TivatME.TI1913,63013,9914618
UlcinjME.UL2020,29026,43525598
ŽabljakME.ZA214,2044,245445172
21 communes620,145672,65613,7595,312
  • HASC: Hierarchical administrative
    subdivision codes    . Inherited
    from Serbia and Montenegro
    with CS.CG replaced by ME.
  • ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2.
  • Pop-2004: 2003-10-31 census, corrected (see Note)
  • Pop-2003: 2003-10-31 census, original

 

Note: The figures first published for the 2003 census were later revised downward. According to one website , the Montenegro Statistical Office recalculated the census figures in 2004, eliminating citizens living abroad. 2004 data taken from Wikipedia; 2003 data from the cited website.

Postal codes: 

Montenegro inherited a system of five-digit postal codes from Yugoslavia. In Montenegro, the codes all begin with '8'.

Territorial extent: 

Montenegro has no islands of any significance. Its largest two, Ada Bojana in the Adriatic Sea and Vranjina in Lake Skadar, are each under 5 km.². It has a short land border with Croatia.

Origins of names: 

  1. Bijelo Polje: = white field
  2. Herceg Novi: = new duke, renamed from Castelnuovo (Italian: New Castle) by Duke Stjepan Vukčić Kosača (1404-1466); see also Bosnia and Herzegovina
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