Districts of Kosovo and Metohija

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Districts in Kosovo and Metohia

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Five of the Districts of Serbia are in its Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, with 30 municipalities. Since 1999, UNMIK created 7 Districts of Kosovo and 30 Municipalities of Kosovo.

District	Capital	Population in 2002 (rank)	Municipalities
Kosovo District ('Kosovski okrug')	Priština	672,292	Priština Glogovac Kosovo Polje Lipljan Obilić Podujevo Uroševac Štimlje Kačanik Štrpce
Kosovo-Pomoravlje District (Kosovsko-Pomoravski okrug)	Gnjilane	217,726	Kosovska Kamenica Novo Brdo Gnjilane Vitina
Kosovska Mitrovica District (Kosovsko - Mitrovački okrug)	Kosovska Mitrovica	275,904	Kosovska Mitrovica Leposavić Srbica Vučitrn Zubin Potok Zvečan
Peć District (Pećki okrug)	Peć	414,187	Peć Istok Klina Đakovica Dečani
Prizren District (Prizrenski okrug)	Prizren	376,085	Orahovac Suva Reka Prizren Opolje Gora

[edit] UNMIK reform of 2000

Districts and municipalities 1990-2000

Districts and municipalities since 2000

The United Nations Mission in Kosovo introduced the following changes to the districts and municipalities of Kosovo (UNMIK) in 2000:

on the territory of the Kosovska Mitrovica District it made new District of Kosovska Mitrovica.
on the territory of the Peć District it made new District of Peć and District of Đakovica and additionally:
- it transferred the municipality of Orahovac to the District of Đakovica.
it split the Kosovo District in two - the new District of Priština and District of Uroševac.
it renamed the Kosovo-Pomoravlje District as the District of Gnjilane.
- it transferred the municipality of Novo Brdo to the District of Priština.
it reformed the Prizren District into District of Prizren by the following:
- it merged the municipalities of Gora and Opolje into the new municipality of Dragaš
- it formed new municiaplity Mališevo by taking territories from the municipalities of Orahovac (Prizren District/District of Đakovica), Suva Reka (District of Prizren), Klina (District of Peć) and Glogovac (Kosovo District/District of Priština).
- it transferred the bigger part of Orahovac municipality that is outside of the new municipality of Mališevo to the District of Đakovica.

District 1990-2000	Municipalities 1990-2000	Current District	Current Municipalities
Kosovo District ('Kosovski okrug')	Priština Glogovac Kosovo Polje Lipljan Obilić Podujevo Uroševac Štimlje Kačanik Štrpce	District of Priština (Komuna e Prishtinës/Prištinski okrug)	Priština Glogovac (almost entirely) Kosovo Polje Lipljan Obilić Podujevo Novo Brdo (previously in Kosovo-Pomoravlje District)
Kosovo District ('Kosovski okrug')		District of Uroševac (Komuna e Ferizajt/Uroševački okrug)	Uroševac Štimlje Kačanik Štrpce
Kosovo-Pomoravlje District (Kosovsko-Pomoravski okrug)	Kosovska Kamenica Novo Brdo Gnjilane Vitina	District of Gnjilane (Gnjilanski okrug/Gjilani District)	Kosovska Kamenica Gnjilane Vitina
Kosovska Mitrovica District (Kosovsko - Mitrovački okrug)	Kosovska Mitrovica Leposavić Srbica Vučitrn Zubin Potok Zvečan	District of Kosovska Mitrovica (Komuna e Mitrovicës/Kosovskomitrovački okrug)	Kosovska Mitrovica Leposavić Srbica Vučitrn Zubin Potok Zvečan
Peć District (Pećki okrug)	Peć Istok Klina Đakovica Dečani	District of Peć (Komuna e Pejës/Pećki okrug)	Peć Istok Klina (bigger part)
Peć District (Pećki okrug)	Peć Istok Klina Đakovica Dečani	District of Đakovica (Komuna e Gjakovës/Đakovički okrug)	Đakovica Dečani Orahovac (bigger part, previously in Prizren District)
Prizren District (Prizrenski okrug)	Orahovac Suva Reka Prizren Opolje Gora	District of Prizren (Komuna e Prizrenit/Prizrenski okrug)	Mališevo (comprising parts of Orahovac, Suva Reka, Klina, Glogovac) Suva Reka (bigger part) Prizren Dragaš (comprising the previous Opolje and Gora)

Serbia protested about the new territorial division and does not see it as legitimate, but by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo administration implemented it regardless of Serbia's protests, because it has such authority established by virtue of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244. Similarly the local authorities of Kosovo objected the Serbia nominal sovereignity over Kosovo (also confirmed by the UNSCR 1244) and in 2008 declared unilateraly indepence, but it is not yet recognized by the UN and thus the Kosovo (UNMIK) protectorate continues to function according to UNSCR 1244.