Bačka Palanka (Serbian Cyrillic: Бачка Паланка, pronounced [bâːtʃkaː pǎlaːnka]; Hungarian: Palánka) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the village was the property of a landowner Laurence of Ilok, a duke of Syrmia.

By 1894, a railway was built from Bačka Palanka to Feketić and a first phone call was made to Novi Sad.

[7] The city was under Habsburg administration until 1918, when it became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed as Yugoslavia).

After the work camps were dissolved (in 1948), the remaining German population was expelled from Yugoslavia in an ethnic cleansing.

To replace the Germans, 3,609 (mostly Serb) colonists were settled in the town after World War II.

In 2002, 4 tons of fish stew were cooked at Kaloš Čarda at the Bager Lake in Bačka Palanka and it entered the Guinness Book of Records.

Villages on the northern bank of the river Danube, in the region of Bačka: Villages on the southern bank of the river Danube, in the region of Syrmia: According to the last official census done in 2011, the municipality of Bačka Palanka had 55,528 inhabitants.

The Tikvara Resort complex is built along the lake for practicing various sports, recreational and entertaining activities.

At the time of Serbia's emancipation, engraver Marko Vujatović worked on the intricate iconostasis of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist.

Today, Bačka Palanka falls among the ten most developed municipalities in Vojvodina.

The most famous factories are Enia, Sintelon, Tarkett, Nectar, Dunavprevoz, AD Bačka, Carlsberg, Marina, Majevica, Plattner, Žitoprodukt, Budućnost and others.

The following table gives a preview of total number of registered people employed in legal entities per their core activity (as of 2018):[9] Sport is very popular in Bačka Palanka.

The most famous sport clubs in Bačka Palanka are: Seats in the municipality parliament won in the 2004 local elections:[10] Seats in the municipality parliament after 2008 elections:[11] Bačka Palanka is twinned with: