Vetrino_Municipality

Vetrino Municipality

Vetrino Municipality

Municipality in Varna, Bulgaria

Vetrino Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ветрино) is a municipality (obshtina) in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre – the village of Vetrino.

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The municipality embraces a territory of 293.12 km², bordering the Shumen Province to the west, with a population of 5,702 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1] The southern parts of the area is crossed by the east operating part of Hemus motorway which is planned to connect the port of Varna with the country capital – Sofia.

Settlements

Vetrino Municipality includes the following 10 places, all of them are villages:

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Demography

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

Vetrino Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 13,331 10,812 7,990 7,023 6,296 6,045 5,702 ...
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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A majority of the population of Vetrino Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 68.5% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Muslims are the largest minority with 21.8% of its population.

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]
    (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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