Radiofar (

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: Радиофар) is a suburban neighborhood of

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

, the capital of

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. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of

Surčin Surčin ( sr-Cyrl, Сурчин, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. It is located in the eastern Syrmia region in Central Europe, 32km west of downtown Belgrade. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 45,452 inhabitants. It is the ...

. Radiofar, actually a sub-neighborhood of Surčin, is a settlement near the Belgrade's

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, 10 km west of downtown Belgrade. It is located in the vicinity the Belgrade-Zagreb highway, close to the airport's

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. This is how the settlement got its name ('radiofar' =

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). Settlement began to develop in the late 1980s as the weekend-settlement, but grew with an influx of refugees as the result of the

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from 1991. Estimated population by 2011 was over 3,000.

References

Suburbs of Belgrade Populated places in Syrmia Surčin {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub