Gornji Tavankut is a village located in the Subotica municipality, in the North Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 1,381 people (2002 census).

In Serbian the village is known as Gornji Tavankut or Горњи Таванкут, in Croatian as Gornji Tavankut, in Bunjevac as Gornji Tavankut, and in Hungarian as Felsőtavankút.

• Bunjevci = 791
• Croats = 359
• Yugoslavs = 300
• Serbs = 36
• Hungarians = 17

• Croats = 546 (39.54%)
• Bunjevci = 481 (34.83%)
• Serbs = 100 (7.24%)
• Yugoslavs = 94 (6.81%)
• Hungarians = 44 (3.19%)

• 1961: 7,476
• 1971: 6,729
• 1981: 1,879
• 1991: 1,526

The village consists of several relatively distinct areas ('kraj'), such as Skenderovo, Vuković kraj, Partizan, Rata.

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

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

• Gornji Tavankut - Vojvodina Portal