Key facts
- Country
- Serbia
- Region
- Southern and Eastern Serbia
- District
- Bor
- City status
- June 2018
- Mayor
- Aleksandar Milikić ( SNS )
- Urban
- 47.62 km (18.39 sq mi)
- Administrative
- 856 km (331 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 381 m (1,250 ft)
- Urban density
- 605.2/km (1,568/sq mi)
- Administrative density
- 47.7/km (124/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Area code
- +381 30
- Car plates
- Serbian
- Website
- www .bor .rs
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Encyclopedic overview
Bor (Serbian Cyrillic: Бор; Romanian: Bor) is a city and the administrative center of the Bor District in eastern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city administrative area has a population of 40,845 inhabitants.
Bor has one of the largest copper mines in Europe. It has been a mining center since 1904, when a French company began operations there. With 810 residential buildings, it presents the highest ration of urban area to number of citizens in the country, and is one of top-five cities in Serbia by number of buildings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.