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The municipality of Grocka covers an area of 289 km 2 and includes 15 settlements, all of which are statistically classified as rural, except for the municipal seat of Grocka, which is urban. The small town of Grocka is located on the right bank of the Danube, where the small river Gročica empties into the Danube, 30 km east of Belgrade.
Leštane is more crowded than its municipal seat, Grocka. Thousands of people migrated to the settlement from southern Serbia and especially Kosovo and Metohija in the 1970s, and after the exodus of Serbs from Kosovo and Goranci in 1999, new thousands settled in Leštane, so it is estimated it might have reached up to 15,000 inhabitants today.
Kaluđerica originated during the Ottoman rule of Serbia.A group of refugees who fled the Turks, settled at the bottom of the valley between two major roads. They cleared the thick woods around the creek and up to the 1950s, the settlement was predominantly agrarian, with most of the inhabitants working in agriculture and cattle breeding.
Stari Grad occupies the ending ridge of Šumadija geological bar [self-published source].The cliff-like ridge, where the fortress of Kalemegdan is located, overlooks the Great War Island and the confluence of the Sava river into the Danube, and makes one of the most beautiful natural lookouts in Belgrade.
Begaljica is located in the central part of Grocka, in the geographical regions of Podunavlje (Danube river basin), and Šumadija (central Serbia). [4] It lies 107–270 m above sea level, on the water source sides of the Begaljica river, a right tributary of the Danube. [5]
The longest street in the densely urbanized area of the city is the Bulevar kralja Aleksandra with 7.5 km (4.7 mi). The longest overall is the Obrenovac Road, with 11 km (6.8 mi). [ 3 ] With only 12 m (39 ft), the Lovačka Street in the outer neighborhood of Žarkovo is officially the shortest street. [ 4 ]
Vrčin is located southeast of Avala mountain, in the central-eastern part of the municipality, 20 km southeast of Belgrade and 14 km west of the municipal seat of Grocka.