Sopje

{{Infobox settlement

| official_name = Sopje

| native_name =

| other_name =

| settlement_type =

| image_skyline =

| imagesize =

| image_caption =

| image_flag =

| flag_size =

| image_seal =

| seal_size =

| nickname =

| motto =

| image_map =

| mapsize =

| map_caption =

| pushpin_map = Croatia

| pushpin_mapsize =

| pushpin_map_caption =

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| coordinates = {{coord|45|48|03.96|N|17|44|33.00|E|type:city_region:HR_source:frwiki|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{CRO}}

| subdivision_type1 = County

| subdivision_name1 = Virovitica-Podravina

| subdivision_type2 =

| subdivision_name2 =

| established_title =

| established_date =

| government_footnotes =

| government_type =

| leader_title =

| leader_name =

| unit_pref =

| area_footnotes = {{Cite Q|Q119585703|mode=cs1}}

| area_total_km2 = 117.2

| area_land_km2 =

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m =

| elevation_ft =

| population_footnotes = {{Croatian Census 2021|S}}

| population_as_of = 2021

| population_total = 1897

| population_density_km2 = auto

| population_urban =

| population_density_urban_km2 =

| population_metro =

| population_note =

| timezone = CET

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset = +1

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code =

| area_code =

| blank_name =

| blank_info =

| website = {{URL|sopje.hr}}

| footnotes =

}}

Sopje is a village and a municipality in Croatia in the Virovitica–Podravina County.{{cite book|title=REPUBLIC OF CROATIA - MINI GUIDE 2001 |url=http://www.hidra.hr/arhiva/miniguide2001.pdf |issn=1334-0239 |page=11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051014085919/http://www.hidra.hr/arhiva/miniguide2001.pdf |archive-date=October 14, 2005 }}

In the 2011 census, Sopje had a total population of 2,230, in the following settlements:{{Croatian Census 2011|S|10|4073}}

• Gornje Predrijevo, population 86
• Grabić, population 122
• Josipovo, population 281
• Kapinci, population 186
• Nova Šarovka, population 250
• Novaki, population 349
• Sopjanska Greda, population 35
• Sopje, population 524
• Španat, population 172
• Vaška, population 315
• Višnjica, no population

At the time of Ancient Rome, there was a salt lake called Salapia somewhere in Interamnia (modern-day Slavonia). It's been suggested that the name Sopje derives from its name.{{dubious|date=September 2017}}

Colonist settlements of Bobovac and Sopjanska Greda were established on the territory of the village municipality during the land reform in interwar Yugoslavia.{{cite journal|first= Zdenka|last= Šimončić-Bobetko|title= Kolonizacija u Hrvatskoj 1919.—1941. godine|lang= hr|trans-title= Colonization in Croatia Between 1919 and 1941|year= 1990|volume= 9|issue= 9|url= https://hrcak.srce.hr/107372|journal= Povijesni prilozi|publisher= Hrvatski institut za povijest|location= Zagreb|issn= 0351-9767|pages= 160–162}}