Velebit (Serbian Cyrillic: Велебит) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kanjiža municipality, in the North Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority with a population numbering 366 people (2002 census).

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Coordinates: 46°00′00″N 19°57′00″E
Country	Serbia
Province	Vojvodina
District	North Banat
Elevation	84 m (276 ft)
Population  (2002)
• Velebit	366
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	24428
Area code	+381(0)24
Car plates	KA

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In Serbian the settlement is known as Velebit (Велебит) and in Hungarian as Velebit or Fogadjisten (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈfoɡɒɟɟiʃtɛn]). There is a mountain range in Croatia with same name (see: Velebit).

• Serbs = 302 (82.51%)
• Hungarians = 59 (16.12%)
• Croats = 3 (0.82%)
• Montenegrins = 1 (0.27%)
• undeclared = 1 (0.27%)

Velebit is the only settlement with Serb majority in the Kanjiža municipality since all other settlements are predominantly Hungarian.

• 1961: 604
• 1971: 562
• 1981: 449
• 1991: 361

The settlement was founded after the First World War, as part of the introduction program by which new immigrants were settled in Vojvodina.

Former mayor of Novi Sad Jovan Dejanović was born in Kanjiža.

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

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• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

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