Municipalities within Lovech Province with their main towns
Lovech Province (Bulgarian: Област Ловеч, romanized: Oblast Lovech, former name Lovech okrug) is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city - Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area is 151,153.[1][2][3]
Municipalities
The Lovech province (област, oblast) contains eight municipalities (singular: община, obshtina - plural: общини, obshtini). The following table shows the names of each municipality in English and Cyrillic, the main town or village (in bold), and the population as of December 2009.
The Lovech province had a population of 169,951 according to a 2001 census, of which 49.1% were male and 50.9% were female.[6]
As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 151,153[1] of which 29.4% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.[7]
The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:
Lovech Province
Year
1946
1956
1965
1975
1985
1992
2001
2005
2007
2009
2011
Population
217,203
214,213
217,342
216,844
202,968
190,262
169,951
160,202
156,437
151,153
141 422
Sources: National Statistical Institute,[1] „Census 2001“,[2] „Census 2011“,[3] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,??
A further 11,000 persons in the Province did not declare their ethnic group at the 2011 census
In the 2001 census, 167,877 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified themselves as belonging to one of the following ethnic groups (with percentage of total population):[9]
In the 2001 census, 168,307 people of the population of 169,951 of Lovech Province identified one of the following as their mother tongue (with percentage of total population):
154,157 Bulgarian (90.7%),
6,994 Turkish (4.1%),
6,033 Romani (3.5%),
and 1,123 other (0.7%).[10]
