Tovarnik

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Settlement.official_name: Tovarnik
Settlement.native_name_lang: hr
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Tovarnik-Товарник.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Clockwise, from top right: Tovarnik railway station, Serbian Orthodox Church of St. George, stable, Roman Catholic Church of Saint Matthew, Birthplace of Antun Gustav Matoš and Municipal building
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of the Tovarnik Municipality.gif
Settlement.image_seal: Coat_of_arms_of_Tovarnik_municipality.png
Settlement.image_map: Tovarnik.png
Settlement.pushpin_map: Croatia Vukovar-Srijem County#Croatia#Europe
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 200
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Croatia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Syrmia (Podunavlje)
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.leader_party: HDZ
Settlement.leader_title: Municipal mayor

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Population: 2067
Area: 37.9
Official website: www.opcina-tovarnik.hr
Image: Natun Gustav Matoš-Антун Густав Матош 02.JPG

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Commons category: Tovarnik
postal code: 32249

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Tovarnik (, , , ) is a municipality in the Vukovar-Syrmia County in Croatia next to the border with Serbia with the town of Šid and the village of Ilinci on the other side of the border. According to the 2001 census, there are 2,775 inhabitants, 91.06% which are Croats. The municipality is part of Syrmia. It is the birthplace of great Croatian poet Antun Gustav Matoš. Tovarnik is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classified as the First Category Area of Special State Concern by the Government of Croatia.

==Geography== The municipality is located in historical regions of Syrmia. The total area of the municipality is 64.56 km2. The territory of the municipality is completely flat with very fertile black soil. The municipality shares borders with municipalities of Lovas to north, Tompojevci to northwest, Nijemci to west and southwest and the Republic of Serbia to south, east and north-east where it borders the town of Šid. The village is connected with the rest of the country by the D46 state road connecting it with the town of Vinkovci and continuing into Serbia as the State Road 120 to the nearest town of Šid.