Bavanište (Serbian Cyrillic: Баваниште) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovin municipality, in the South Banat District of Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (89.37%) and its population numbers 6,106 people (2002 census).

In Serbian the village is known as Bavanište (Баваниште), in Romanian as Bavaniște, in Hungarian as Homokbálványos, and in German as Bawanischte.

• 1948: 5,805
• 1953: 6,066
• 1961: 6,133
• 1971: 6,322
• 1981: 6,412
• 1991: 6,517

Year	Total	Serbs	Romani	Macedonians	Yugoslavs	Hungarians	Romanians	Croats	Rest
1991	6,517	87.32%	6.82%	0.87%	1.93%	0.75%	0.29%	0.38%	1.64%
2002	6,106	89.37%	6.73%	0.58%	0.26%	0.60%	0.26%	0.613%	2.03%

• List of places in Serbia
• List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

• Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

• Bavanište prezentacija