Rucka ( Serbian Cyrillic: Руцка) is a

suburban settlement A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separa ...

of Belgrade, the capital of

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...

. It is located in the municipality of

Čukarica Čukarica ( sr-cyr, Чукарица, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. Name Like several other neighborhoods of Belgrade, Čukarica was named after kafana. At the present location of the Sugar Refinery, there was a kafana in the sec ...

. Rucka is the southernmost and the least populated settlement in the municipality of Čukarica. It is located just 1.5 km west of

Umka Umka ( sr-cyrl, Умка) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Čukarica. Location Umka is located south-west of Belgrade, on the right bank of the Sava river, close to river's . It is a crossroa ...

, with which it makes a continuous built-up urban area, so in the future much smaller Rucka (population of 316, census 2011) might be annexed to Umka (population of 5,292, Census 2002). Rucka is one of the smallest settlements in the City of Belgrade area, and being classified as an urban, one of the smallest towns in Serbia.

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Suburbs of Belgrade Šumadija Čukarica {{BelgradeRS-geo-stub