Kanjiža (Serbian: Кањижа; Hungarian: Magyarkanizsa) is a municipality in the Serbian district of North Banat. Kanjiža counts 27,510 inhabitants (2002). The area is 399 km², the population density is 68.9 inhabitants per km².
The main town of the municipality has 9,696 inhabitants (2011), second place is Horgoš with 5,603 inhabitants (2011). The municipality has a population that consists for the most part of ethnic Hungarians. Until 1920 and between 1940 and 1945, the municipality belonged to Hungary, which was then assigned to the former Yugoslavia by the Trianon Treaty. Places in the municipality
Next to the main town Kanjiža, the municipality has the following places (in parenthesis the Hungarian name): Population composition
The municipality of Kanjiza had the following population composition in 2011:
On Velebit after, all villages have a majority of Hungarian population (see Hungarian minority in Serbia. The municipality is therefore part of the ethnic Hungarian region in the north of Vojvodina, which joins Hungary's Hungarian language area.
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