Change of Street Names in Belgrade: Over 2,500 New Addresses on the PlanPlus Map!

Over the past months, users of the digital map PlanPlus have noticed changes in the names of a larger number of streets in the municipalities within the Belgrade City Zone (Stari grad, Vračar, Savski venac, Palilula, Zvezdara, Voždovac, Novi Beograd, Zemun, Čukarica, and Rakovica).

While newly constructed roads received completely new names (e.g., Woodrow Wilson Boulevard), a significantly larger number of streets had their parts renamed and now represent separate streets that will undergo partial or even complete renumbering (e.g., Pijarona de Mondezira, Marinka Madžgalja, Vlade Divljana, etc.).

Although most streets have received new street signs, renumbering will not be such a straightforward process. However, it is expected that in the coming months, the new numbers will also be officially recognized in the field.

You can find out about the latest changes in the street index by simply entering the desired street name in the search field, and in case of any changes, both names will be suggested (e.g., Bački ilovik).

As a reminder, after the Republic Geodetic Authority established in 2018 that even 3 million citizens of Serbia do not have proper residential addresses, meaning they live in streets without house numbers and often without street names, a major national project to update the Address Register was launched across the entire country.

The aim of the project is to improve the functioning of state administration as well as the daily lives of citizens who have, until now, faced administrative problems or difficulties in communicating with private or public services such as post offices, police, emergency services, fire departments, or courier services due to unclearly defined addresses.

The decision regarding street naming and numbering has been left to local self-governments, and the process of changing and assigning names to previously unnamed streets has been underway for some time. Out of approximately 100,000 streets nationwide that were found to be without a name, around 25,000 have been named so far.

Changes in street names will also necessitate a change in personal documents, primarily ID cards, and this process will be carried out at the expense of the state. As the change in street names and renumbering are not considered a physical change of residence, citizens are not obligated to obtain new passports or driver's licenses.

PlanPlus will continue to monitor all name changes, update them based on priority, and inform users about the latest changes on the map.