Veliki Boč (pronounced [ˈʋeːliki ˈboːtʃ]; German: Großwalz[2]) is a dispersed settlement in the hills north of Selnica ob Dravi in northeastern Slovenia, right on the border with Austria.

[3] Veliki Boč consists of a number of large, isolated farms scattered across ridges of the Kojzak Hills.

Because the terrain limits the ability to cultivate the land, animal husbandry (cattle, sheep, and bees) has traditionally been important, and especially forestry.

These various villages named Boč were attested in written sources in 1265–67 as Waltz (and as Walsnich in 1352).

[5] On April 25, 1929, the Yugoslav police executed Communist Party secretary Đuro Đaković (1886–1929) and Nikola Hećimović (1900–1929), secretary of International Red Aid, in the Šele Ravine (Slovene: Šelova graba) in the hamlet of Šelovo in the northern part of the village.