Country Bosnia and Herzegovina Area 729 km² Area code 57 | Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Saturday 10:54 PM Team FK Glasinac Sokolac | |
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Sokolac (Cyrillic: Соколац) is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the part of the City of East Sarajevo in the Republika Srpska entity.
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Map of Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Economy
For many years, agriculture has been an important part of Sokolac. For most inhabitants, agriculture is the only way to make a living, but also a family tradition. Sokolac used to be known for its high quality potato; until recently, the potato chip industry was a promising industry for the region. Livestock production is the second largest agriculture industry in the community. The area surrounding Sokolac is well known for its quality grasslands, due to foggy, moist conditions that keep the grasses green much of the year and make them well suited for grazing dairy, cattle and sheep. The beef cattle and sheep is the second largest export of the community. Although Sokolac has a small dairy factory, the milk market production is very small. Sokolac is surrounded by high quality woodlands, which have been largely destroyed in last ten years. Although this industry generates most revenue for the community, a small percentage of people work in the industry. Sokolac is the important intersection of the regional roads.
The important intersection of the regional roads from Sarajevo to the Adriatic Sea, Belgrade, Užice, Banja Luka and Bijeljina. [1]
Sokolac has large forest complex. The municipality possess 38.013 hectares of forest and the forest land. 94,76% of it is state-owned forest and 5,24% is private property. The overall supply of timber is 8.482.000 cubic meters. The forest resources are much larger than utilized by Republika Srpska.
1950
17,053 total
1991
In 1991, the population of the Sokolac municipality numbered 14,833 people, including:
Sport
The local football club, FK Glasinac Sokolac, plays in the First League of the Republika Srpska.