Novo Sarajevo

Neighborhoods

Grbavica I

Grbavica II

Pofalići I

Pofalići II

Velešići

Gornji Velešići

Željeznička

Dolac Malta

Čengić Vila I

Kvadrant

Hrasno

Hrasno Brdo

Trg Heroja

Kovačići

Gornji Kovačići

Vraca

History

Like Novi Grad, Novo Sarajevo is a product of the city's massive growth and development in the 1960s and 1970s. It is located in the middle of the Sarajevo field, predominantly on the northern bank of the Miljacka, between Novi Grad and Centar.

Prior to the siege, Novo Sarajevo had some 47.6 km2 (41.6% Forest, 17.5% Meadows, 13.5% Commercial/Building Land, 10.4% Grass-land, 8.4% Ploghland, 13.5% Gardens). Following the siege of Sarajevo, 75% of the lesser populated urban area was transferred to Istočno Novo Sarajevo, leaving Novo Sarajevo municipality with 11.43 km2. As a result, Novo Sarajevo has the highest number of people per km2, some 7524.

Economy

Novo Sarajevo is known as something of the commercial and business center of Sarajevo, housing many of the city's major companies and corporations such as Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine, the University of Sarajevo, UN house Bosnia and Herzegovina and also the HQ of Sparkasse Bank and the Raiffeisen Bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Novo Sarajevo is considered to be the second most developed municipality in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, boasting a per capita GDP of some US$11,000 (275.2% of FBiH average GDP), just behind the municipality of Centar, Sarajevo. These two municipalities combine for 60.9% of the Sarajevo Canton GDP, even though they account for merely 3.5% of the total area of Sarajevo Canton, and 27% of its population.

Sites of interests

Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Historijski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine)

Vilsonovo Šetalište – popular promenade and recreation area (Wilson's Promenade)

Suada and Olga bridge – bridge is a monument to Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić, the first victims shot at the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo.

Church of the Holy Transfiguration

Hum Tower – park and recreational zone

Grbavica Stadium – (Stadium of FK Željezničar)

University of Sarajevo Campus

ROBOT Shopping Centar Novo Sarajevo

Konzum Family Centar Sarajevo (ex. Mercator)

Embassy of the United States, Sarajevo

Old Jewish Cemetery, Sarajevo

Demographics

1971

111,811 total

Serbs – 45,806 (40.96%)

Bosniaks – 37,147 (33.22%)

Croats – 17,491 (15.64%)

Yugoslavs – 5,798 (5.18%)

Others – 5,569 (5.00%)

1991

95,089 total

Bosniaks – 33,902 (35.7%)

Serbs – 32,899 (34.6%)

Yugoslavs – 15,580 (16.4%)

Croats – 8,798 (9.3%)

Others – 4,391 (4.6%)

2013

64,814 total

Bosniaks – 48,188 (74.34%)

Croats – 4,639 (7.15%)

Serbs – 3,402 (5.24%)

Others – 8,585 (13.24%)