| Native Name: | Вардарска бановина Vardarska banovina |
| Conventional Long Name: | Vardar Banovina |
| Common Name: | Vardar Banovina |
| Subdivision: | Banovina |
| Nation: | Yugoslavia |
| S1: | Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943)Kingdom of Albania |
| Flag S1: | Flag of Albania (1939–1943).svg |
| S2: | Kingdom of Bulgaria |
| Flag S2: | Flag of Bulgaria.svg |
| S3: | German-occupied Serbia |
| Flag S3: | Flag of the German Reich (1935–1945).svg |
| Year Start: | 1929 |
| Date Start: | 3 October |
| Event End: | Invasion of Yugoslavia |
| Event Start: | Established |
| Year End: | 1941 |
| Date End: | 6–18 April |
| Event1: | 1931 Yugoslav Constitution |
| Date Event1: | 3 September 1931 |
| Government Type: | Devolved autonomous banate |
| Title Leader: | Monarch |
| Leader1: | Alexander I |
| Year Leader1: | 1929–1934 |
| Leader2: | Peter II |
| Year Leader2: | 1934–1941 |
| Title Deputy: | Ban |
| Deputy1: | Živojin Lazić |
| Year Deputy1: | 1929–1932 |
| Deputy2: | Žika Rafajlović |
| Year Deputy2: | 1940–1941 |
| Image Map Caption: | Vardar Banovina (red) within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (light yellow) |
| Capital: | Skopje |
| Stat Area2: | 36,672 |
| Stat Pop1: | 1,323,546 |
| Stat Pop2: | 1,574,243 |
| Stat Year1: | 1921 |
| Stat Year2: | 1931 |
| Today: | Kosovo North Macedonia Serbia |
The Vardar Banovina, or Vardar Banate (mk|Вардарска бановина|Vardarska banovina; sr|Вардарска бановина|translit=Vardarska Banovina; sq|Banovina e Vardarit|italics=no), was a province (banate) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941.
It was located in the southernmost part of the country, encompassing the whole of today's North Macedonia, southern parts of Southern and Eastern Serbia and southeastern parts of Kosovo and Serbia. It was named after the Vardar River and its administrative capital was the city of Skopje. According to the 1930 statistics of the Central Press Bureau of the Ministerial Council[1] out of the 9 Yugoslav banovinas, the "Vardarska" banovina was the largest at 38879km2; while its population, was the fourth at 1,386,370 inhabitants. Following the First World War, in Vardar Macedonia and in the so-called Western Outlands, the local Bulgarian (Macedonian Bulgarian) population was not recognized and a state-policy of Serbianisation occurred.[2] [3] [4] It also suffered the worst health problems, especially typhus and smallpox, and required one Institute of Hygiene, 3 health stations and 6 dispensaries and convalescent homes. On the other hand, unlike the banovinas that until the creation of Yugoslavia had belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire and the lands of Montenegro, it had inherited no debts. According to the 1931 Constitution of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Vardar Banovina was bounded on the north by the boundaries of the Zeta and Morava Banovinas, and on the east, south and west by the State frontiers with Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania. In 1941, the World War II Axis Powers occupied the Vardar Banovina and divided it between Bulgaria, German-occupied Serbia, and Albania under Italy. Following World War II, the southern portion of the region became Socialist Republic of Macedonia while the northern portions were made a part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, both within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.