 Bežanija is located west of the downtown Belgrade, across the Sava river, in the Syrmia region.It is situated in the central part of the Novi Beograd municipality, on the southern extension of the elongated, crescent-shaped yellow loess ridge of "Bežanijska kosa".The ridge (or slope, as it is called in Serbian, "kosa") gives its name to the northern extension of Bežanija, Bežanijska Kosa, and stretches to the right banks of the Danube in the neighborhood of Zemun.