Svinița (Romanian: Svinița, Serbian: Свињица or Svinjica, Hungarian: Szinice) is a commune in Mehedinți County, Romania, located on the Danube (in the area of the Banat known as Clisura Dunării – Banatska Klisura in Serbian).

In the autumn of 1848, the locality was the site of a daring escape of Wallachian revolutionaries kept in Ottoman custody.

Maria Rosetti and Constantin Daniel Rosenthal called on the local mayor to demand that Ottoman guards hand in their weapons on what was at the time Austrian soil, and all persons arrested were consequently free to go.

At the 2011 census, Svinița had 925 inhabitants, of which 90.3% were Serbs, 6.5% Romanians, 0.9% Roma, and 2.3% others or of unknown ethnic origin.

[5] The commune is officially bilingual, with both Romanian and Serbian being used as working languages on public signage and in administration, education and justice.