Ruse_Municipality

Ruse Municipality

Ruse Municipality

Municipality in Ruse, Bulgaria

Ruse Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Русе) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Ruse which is also a capital of the province.

Quick Facts Община Русе, Country ...

The municipality embraces a territory of 469.17 km2 (181.15 sq mi) with a population of 175,210 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]

Apart from the cultural heritage of the main city, the area is best known with the Danube Bridge, the first bridge over the Danube in Bulgaria.

The main roads E85, E70 and II-21 crosses the municipality, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the cities of Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven, Razgrad and Silistra.

Settlements

Ruse Municipality includes the following 14 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 Ruse Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Novo Selo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Ruse Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 170,561 195,237 191,375 178,435 175,935 174,627 175,210 ...
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]
    (in English)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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