Municipality of Gornji Petrovci

The Municipality of Gornji Petrovci (pronounced [ˈɡoːɾnji pɛˈtɾoːu̯tsi]; Slovene: Občina Gornji Petrovci) is a municipality in Slovenia.

The seat of the municipality is the town of Gornji Petrovci.

[2] The municipality includes 14 villages, represented in the municipal coat of arms by fourteen simplified blue houses.

The shield also includes a heraldic otter holding a golden fish.

The municipal holiday is 18 August, chosen as the anniversary of the crash landing of a stratospheric balloon with the Belgian pioneering balloonists Max Cosyns and Nérée van der Elst in 1934.

Villages in the municipality