Petrovčić is a suburban settlement of Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, the capital of Serbia

Serbia

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. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Surčin

Surcin

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.

Location

Petrovčić is the westernmost settlement in the municipality, located right next to the administrative border which divides Central Serbia

Central Serbia

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 and the province of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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. It is located in the Syrmia

Syrmia

Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west....

 region (north of the Bojčinska woods), west of the village of Bečmen

Becmen

Bečmen is an suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Surčin.- Location :...

, almost 30 kilometers west of downtown Belgrade and 12 kilometers west of its municipal seat, Surčin.

The road which connects Petrovčić to Surčin (through Bečmen) on the east, continues into the Vojvodina on the west, to the village of Karlovčić

Karlovcic

Karlovčić is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Pećinci municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,243 people ....

. A crossroad of this road and the one opposite to it (north to south, Deč

Dec

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-Ašanja

Ašanja

Ašanja is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Pećinci municipality, in the Srem District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,488 people .-See also:*List of places in Serbia...

) is just west of Petrovčić.

Population

Like majority of the settlements in the municipality, Petrovčić experienced high population growth in recent decades, almost 26% between the censuses of 1991 (1,117 inhabitanst) and 2002 (1,406). The settlement is statistically classified as a rural one (village). Major ethnic groups are the Serbs

Serbs

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 (1,261 or 89,69%), Roma (73 or 5,19%), Montenegrins and Gorani

Gorani

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(17 each or 1,21%).