Lyaskovets Municipality
Община Лясковец | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 43°6′N 25°45′E / 43.100°N 25.750°E | |
Country | Bulgaria |
Province (Oblast) | Veliko Tarnovo |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Lyaskovets |
Area | |
• Total | 117.54 km2 (45.38 sq mi) |
Population (December 2009)[1] | |
• Total | 13,677 |
• Density | 120/km2 (300/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Lyaskovets Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лясковец) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Lyaskovets.
The municipality embraces a territory of 117.54 km2 (45.38 sq mi) with a population of 13,677 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
The main road E772 crosses the area centrally, connecting the province centre of Veliko Tarnovo with the city of Targovishte and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.
Lyaskovets Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4] (December 2009) |
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Lyaskovets | Лясковец | 8,277 |
Dobri Dyal | Добри дял | 1,168 |
Dragizhevo | Драгижево | 800 |
Dzhulunitsa | Джулюница | 1,900 |
Kozarevets | Козаревец | 915 |
Merdanya | Мерданя | 617 |
Total | 13,677 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Lyaskovets Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 19,454 | 18,326 | 17,479 | 15,570 | 14,282 | 13,915 | 13,677 | ... |
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7] |
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: