Dalgopol_Municipality

Dalgopol Municipality

Dalgopol Municipality

Municipality in Varna, Bulgaria

Dalgopol Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Дългопол) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Dalgopol.

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The municipality embraces a territory of 442 km2 (171 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,364 inhabitants.[1] The area contains the Tsonevo Reservoir - the third biggest in the country, developed along the Luda Kamchiya river which is the main tributary of Kamchiya river that crosses the municipality from west to east.

Settlements

Dalgopol Municipality includes the following 16 places (towns are shown in bold):

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Demography

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

Dalgopol Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 18,797 18,232 16,514 15,902 15,002 14,700 14,364 ...
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:

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The municipality of Dalgopol has a mixed religious composition. At the 2011 census, 49.5% of respondents identified as Muslims and 41.7% as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

See also

References

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