Boychinovtsi_Municipality

Boychinovtsi Municipality

Boychinovtsi Municipality

Municipality in Montana, Bulgaria

Boychinovtsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Бойчиновци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Boychinovtsi.

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The municipality embraces a territory of 307.32 km2 (118.66 sq mi) with a population of 9,137 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]

Ogosta river, a right tributary of the Danube, flows through the area from southwest to northeast.

Settlements

Boychinovtsi Municipality includes the following 13 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 Boychinovtsi Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Lehchevo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Boychinovtsi Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 12,848 10,070 14,242 12,258 11,062 10,466 9,915 9,137
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[1] „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:

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    (in Bulgarian)National Statistical Institute - Census 2011
  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]
    (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. [6]
    „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. [7]
    "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
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