Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality

Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долна Митрополия) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It embraces a territory of 674.81 km2 (260.55 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 21,304 inhabitants.[1] The administrative centre of the area is the homonymous town of Dolna Mitropoliya.

Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality
Община Долна Митрополия
Municipality
Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Coordinates: 43°33′N 24°30′E
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Pleven
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Dolna Mitropoliya
Area
 • Total674.81 km2 (260.55 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total21,304
 • Density32/km2 (82/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The northern boundary of the municipality is the Danube River, and the 10,926 hectare Natura 2000 Reka Vit Special Protection Area for preservation of avian habitat is located there.[2]

Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[3][4][5]
(December 2009)
Dolna Mitropoliya Долна Митрополия 3,303
Baykal Байкал 562
Bivolare Биволаре 627
Bozhuritsa Божурица 1,102
Bregare Брегаре 637
Gorna Mitropoliya Горна Митрополия 1,827
Gostilya Гостиля 279
Komarevo Комарево 1,224
Krushovene Крушовене 1,054
Orehovitsa Ореховица 1,440
Pobeda Победа 517
Podem Подем 1,023
Riben Рибен 769
Slavovitsa Славовица 573
Stavertsi Ставерци 1,848
Trastenik Тръстеник 4,519
Total 21,304

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Podem and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 28,405 24,079 29,087 25,311 22,994 22,237 21,304 ...
Sources: Census 2001,[6] Census 2011,[7] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[8]

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:

Religious composition of Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality [9]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 83.9%
Catholicism
 
 0.8%
Protestantism
 
 0.6%
Islam
 
 2.5%
No religion
 
 5.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 6.8%

See also

References
  1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Natura 2000 Bulgaria Database: Река Вит Archived November 8, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  3. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  6. National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  7. „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  8. "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  9. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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