Svishtov_Municipality

Svishtov Municipality

Svishtov Municipality

Municipality in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Svishtov Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Свищов) is a municipality (obshtina) in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain along the right bank of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Svishtov.

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The municipality embraces a territory of 625.5 km2 (241.5 sq mi) with a population of 49,817 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Settlements

Svishtov 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.

Svishtov Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 56,264 52,710 50,177 47,664 49,255 49,114 49,817 ...
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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See also

References

  1. [1]
    (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  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]
    „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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