Sombor is a city and municipality

Municipalities of Serbia

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 located in northwest part of Serbia

Serbia

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n autonomous province of Vojvodina

Vojvodina

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. The city has a total population of 48,749 (as of 2011), while the Sombor municipality has 87,815 inhabitants. It is the administrative center of the West Bačka District

West Backa District

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 of Serbia.
In Serbian

Serbian language

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, the city is known as Sombor (Сомбор), in Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 as Zombor, in Croatian

Croatian language

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 as Sombor, in Bunjevac

Bunjevac language

The Bunjevac dialect or Bunjevac language is a Štokavian dialect used by members of the Bunjevci community. The speakers live in parts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia as well as in southern parts of Croatia. The speech has an exclusive Serbo-Croatian Ikavian reflex of the Common...

 as Sombor, in Rusyn

Pannonian Rusyn language

Pannonian Rusyn or simply Rusyn is a Slavic language or dialect spoken by Pannonian Rusyns in north-western Serbia and eastern Croatia...

 as Zombor (Зомбор), in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 as Zombor, and in Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

 as Sonbor.

The older Hungarian name for the city was Czoborszentmihály.