Administrative divisions of Yugoslavia


Yugoslavia had various administrative divisions in different time periods.

1918–1922

From 1918 to 1922, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes continued to be subdivided into the pre–World War I divisions of the Habsburg Monarchy and the formerly independent Balkan kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro.
Provinces were:
The Vidovdan Constitution of 1921 established the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes as a unitary state and, in 1922, 33 new administrative oblasts ruled from the center were instituted:
From 1929, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was subdivided into nine new provinces called banovinas. Their borders were intentionally drawn so that they would not correspond either to boundaries between ethnic groups, or to pre–World War I imperial borders. They were named after various geographic features, mostly rivers. Slight changes to their borders were made in 1931 with the new Yugoslav Constitution. The banovinas were as follow:
As an accommodation to Yugoslav Croats, the Banovina of Croatia was formed in 1939 from a merger of the Littoral and Sava Banovinas, with some additional territory from the Vrbas and Zeta Banovinas. Like Sava, its capital was Zagreb.

1941–1944

During World War II, Kingdom of Yugoslavia was occupied and partitioned by the Axis powers and was divided into 3 Axis puppet states:
Other parts of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were occupied by German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Albanian Axis troops.

1945–1992

was divided into 6 republics and two autonomous provinces:
After dissolution of Yugoslavia, in 1991–1992, five successor states were formed: