Belene_Municipality

Belene Municipality

Belene Municipality

Municipality in Pleven, Bulgaria

Belene Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Белене) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, northern Bulgaria. It is located along the south bank of Danube river, by the border with Romania. The administrative centre of the area is the homonymous town of Belene.

Quick Facts Община Белене, Country ...

The municipality embraces a territory of 285 km2 (110 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 10,908 inhabitants.[1]

Settlements

More information Town/Village, Cyrillic ...

Demography

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

Belene Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 14,683 13,251 13,857 12,581 11,739 11,321 10,908 ...
Sources: Census 2001,[4] Census 2011,[5] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[6]

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:

More information Religious composition of Belene Municipality ...

Most inhabitants are Christians.

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]
    National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  5. [5]
    „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  6. [6]
    "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  7. [7]
    "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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