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. The municipality was established in its current form on 3 October 1994, when the former larger Municipality of Murska Sobota was subdivided into nine smaller municipalities.^[2]

Municipality of Gornji Petrovci Občina Gornji Petrovci
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of the Municipality of Gornji Petrovci in Slovenia
Coordinates: 46°48′N 16°13′E / 46.800°N 16.217°E / 46.800; 16.217
Country	Slovenia
Government
• Mayor	Franc Šlihthuber
Area
• Total	66.8 km2 (25.8 sq mi)
Population  (2010)[1]
• Total	2,175
• Density	33/km2 (84/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02 (CEST)
Website	www.gornji-petrovci.si

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.^[3]

The majority of the population of the municipality are Lutherans, making the Municipality of Gornji Petrovci one of the very few Slovenian municipalities with a non-Catholic majority.