Kula Municipality, Bulgaria

Kula Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Кула) is a municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 10 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Kula. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west.

Kula Municipality
Община Кула
Municipality
Kula Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
Kula Municipality within Bulgaria and Vidin Province.
Coordinates: 43°53′N 22°32′E
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Vidin
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Kula
Area
 • Total291 km2 (112 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total4,958
 • Density17/km2 (44/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 291 km2 with a population of 4,958 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Kula Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Kula Кула 3,287
Chichil Чичил 82
Golemanovo Големаново 136
Izvor Mahala Извор махала 107
Kosta Perchevo Коста Перчево 128
Poletkovtsi Полетковци 62
Staropatitsa Старопатица 387
Topolovets Тополовец 378
Tsar-Petrovo Цар-Петрово 391
Total 4,958

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Kula Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 12,266 10,079 8,648 6,792 5,563 5,237 4,958 4,717
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

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 Kula Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 87.5%
Catholicism
 
 0.2%
Protestantism
 
 0.2%
Islam
 
 0.0%
No religion
 
 8.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 4.0%

An overwhelming majority of the population of Kula Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 87.5% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

See also

References
  1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  8. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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