Pleven Municipality
Община Плевен
Municipality
Pleven Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Pleven Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Coordinates: 43°25′N 24°37′E / 43.417°N 24.617°E / 43.417; 24.617
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Pleven
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Pleven
Area
 • Total812.10 km2 (313.55 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)Decrease[1]
 • Total138,095
 • Density170/km2 (440/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Pleven Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Плевен) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Pleven which is also the capital of the Province.

The municipality embraces a territory of 812.10 km2 (313.55 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 138,095 inhabitants.[1]

Settlements

(towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Pleven Плевен 111,426
Beglezh Беглеж 782
Bohot Бохот 880
Brestovets Брестовец 1,124
Brashlyanitsa Бръшляница 848
Bukovlak Буковлък 3,850
Varbitsa Върбица 656
Gortalovo Горталово 186
Grivitsa Гривица 1,778
Disevitsa Дисевица 1,127
Koilovtsi Коиловци 1,123
Kartozhabene Къртожабене 141
Kashin Къшин 303
Laskar Ласкар 129
Mechka Мечка 849
Nikolaevo Николаево 740
Opanets Опанец 1796
Pelishat Пелишат 794
Radishevo Радишево 507
Ralevo Ралево 347
Slavyanovo Славяново 4,422
Todorovo Тодорово 425
Tuchenitsa Тученица 339
Tarnene Търнене 987
Yasen Ясен 2536
Total 138,095

Demography

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

Pleven Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 145,380 161,991 160,480 149,174 140,967 139,573 138,095 ...
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 Pleven Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 80.8%
Catholicism
 
 1.1%
Protestantism
 
 0.8%
Islam
 
 1.9%
No religion
 
 7.9%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
 
 7.5%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  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. ^ 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.

External links

Municipalities of Pleven Province
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