Brčko

Brčko, (Serbian Cyrillic Брчко), city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, seat of the Brčko District, which is a special administrative unit that does not belong either to Republika Srpska or to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but is rather under direct national and local administration, aided by an international supervisor. The current international supervisor for Brčko is Susan Johnson of the United States of America.

Brčko has the largest port in Bosnia, on the Sava river. It is also home to an economics faculty and to a rather important theater festival. Before the war, the Municipality of Brčko had 87,332 inhabitants (1991 census), 44% of whom were Bosniaks, 25% Croats and 21% Serbs. According to the mayor Branko Damjanac, the current population is 40% Serbs, 39% Bosniaks and 20% Croats.

The city's most famous citizens are Lepa Brena (real name Fahreta Jahić Živojinović), a Bosnian and Serbian popular folk music singer, and Goran Jelisić, a Bosnian Serb war criminal sentenced to the longest imprisonment ever by the ICTY.