Tuzla Canton
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| Main city | Tuzla | ||||
| Head of Canton | Enes Mujić | ||||
| Municipalities | Banovići, Čelić, Doboj Istok, Gračanica, Gradačac, Kalesija, Kladanj, Lukavac, Sapna, Srebrenik, Teočak, Tuzla, Živinice | ||||
| Area | 2,649.0 km² | ||||
| Population - Total - Density |
502,418 189.67/km² |
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The Tuzla Canton is a canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The cantonal seat is in Tuzla.
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[edit] Municipalities
It comprises the municipalities of Banovići, Čelić, Doboj Istok (Doboj East), Gradačac, Gračanica, Kladanj, Kalesija, Lukavac, Sapna, Srebrenik, Teočak and Živinice, as well as the city of Tuzla.
[edit] Geography and population
The area of the canton is 2,908 km². At the 1991 census, the area was populated by 949,621 people of which 60% were Bosniaks, 28% Serbs, 9% Croats, and the rest belonged to minority groups (Yugoslavs, Roma, Slovenes, Ukrainians et al.).
In 2002, the Tuzla Canton had an estimated population of 607,571 residents of which 546,814 were Bosniaks (90%).
The second largest ethnic group is the Croat minority living mostly in Tuzla and in Živinice and Srebrenik. While the Serb minority lives dominantly in Tuzla and the Roma population is mostly present in Tuzla but also in most of the other municipalities in smaller numbers.
[edit] History and culture
The canton was created by the Bosniak-Croat Washington Accords in 1994, and its boundaries defined by the Dayton Accords in 1995.
Bosnia's best-preserved medieval fort, dating from 1333, is in Srebrenik.
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