The westernmost of the four Municipalities that make up the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina is Novi Grad Municipality. During the 1970s, Sarajevo was undergoing a rapid economic and cultural development, with great expansion focused on population and industry. Novi Grad Municipality was a direct result of this period of heavy growth, in which many acres of previously unused land were transformed into Communist urban centres filled with apartment buildings. By the time Novi Grad Municipality was formally recognized, it had some 60,000 citizens, in 18 neighbourhoods.
According to the 1991 census, Novi Grad Municipality had 136,746 citizens. Four years of warfare brought that number down tremendously. Some sections of the Municipality were among the first to be occupied by the agressors, while the city was repeatedly showered by mortar shells. Of the Municipalities 33,517 residential buildings, 92% were damaged during the fighting.
Today Novi Grad Municipality has made a fantastic recovery. Although many bullet holes and mortar shell impacts are visible throughout the Municipality, it is overall healthy and functioning. Today the Municipality has some 112,403 citizens, making it the most populus Municipality of Sarajevo. As the most modern part of Sarajevo, Novi Grad Municipality is also ground to many new developments, such as the Bosmal city centar .
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