Omurtag_Municipality

Omurtag Municipality

Omurtag Municipality

Municipality in Targovishte, Bulgaria

Omurtag Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Омуртаг) is a municipality (obshtina) in Targovishte Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the so-called Fore-Balkan area north of the Stara planina mountain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Omurtag.

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The municipality embraces a territory of 401.7 km2 (155.1 sq mi) with a total population of 21,356 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1] The main road E772 crosses the area connecting its main town with the province centre Targovishte, to the northeast, and the city of Veliko Tarnovo to the west.

Settlements

Omurtag Municipality includes the following 43 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. Since 1992 Omurtag Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Obitel and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Omurtag Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 22,292 21,556 27,000 25,212 24,968 24,789 24,256 21,853
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:

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Demographic indicators

The municipality of Omurtag had relatively favourable demographic indicators compared to the Bulgarian average. But after 2013, the number of births decreased significantly while the number of deaths increased. Omurtag recorded its lowest birth rate, highest death rate and lowest natural growth in 2017. It was the biggest yearly fall since 2000.

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The continued childbirth decline came amid the falling number of women of childbearing age because of emigration to Western Europe (especially Germany and the Netherlands).

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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See also

References

  1. [1]
    (in Bulgarian) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Targovishte Province - Census 2011 Archived 2011-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  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]
    Population by province, municipality, settlement and age by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute
  7. [7]
    Population of Bulgarian divisions
  8. [8]
    Population by province, municipality, settlement and ethnic identification, by 01.02.2011; Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (in Bulgarian)
  9. [9]
    "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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