|— Municipality and Town —| |• Mayor||Živorad Smiljanić| |•
Municipality||333 km2 (129 sq mi)| |Population (2011 census)|
|Time zone||CET (UTC+1)| |• Summer (DST)||CEST (UTC+2)| |Area
code||+381 25| Apatin (Serbian Cyrillic: Апатин) is a town and
municipality in the Vojvodina administrative region of Serbia,
located in the West Bačka District, at . The town of Apatin is
the administrative, economic, cultural, educational and tourist
centre of the municipality of Apatin (333 km²). The population
of the town is 17,411, while the municipality has 28,929
inhabitants. In Serbian, the town is known as Apatin (Апатин),
while the same name is also used in German, Romanian, Croatian
(Šokac), and Hungarian. According to some claims, the name
Apatin is derived from the old form Opaty, by which the town was
first mentioned in the 11th century. The Municipality of Apatin
is located on the left bank of the Danube river (natural border
with Croatia), between the Municipality of Sombor (in the
northeast) and Municipality of