Lom Municipality

Lom Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лом) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre — the town of Lom which is one of the important Bulgarian river ports. The area borders Romania across the Danube.

For other uses, see Lom (disambiguation).
Lom Municipality
Община Лом
Municipality
Lom Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province.
Lom Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province.
Coordinates: 43°48′N 23°16′E
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Montana
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Lom
Area
 • Total323.89 km2 (125.05 sq mi)
Population
 (Census February 2011)[1]
 • Total27,294
 • Density84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality encompasses a territory of 323.89 km2 (125.05 sq mi) with a population of 27,294 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]

Settlements

Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Lom Лом 24,300
Dobri Dol Добри дол 334
Dolno Linevo Долно Линево 266
Kovachitsa Ковачица 1,255
Orsoya Орсоя 133
Slivata Сливата 225
Staliyska Mahala Сталийска махала 1,369
Stanevo Станево 364
Traykovo Трайково 932
Zamfir Замфир 1,020
Total 30,198

Demography

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

Lom Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 43,672 42,950 40,262 35,077 32,135 31,170 30,198 27,294
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[6]

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 Lom Municipality [7]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 56.3%
Catholicism
 
 0.4%
Protestantism
 
 6.1%
Islam
 
 0.1%
No religion
 
 8.0%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 29.1%

See also

References
  1. (in Bulgarian) National Statistical Institute - Census 2011 Archived 2011-04-10 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. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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