Knezha Municipality

Knezha Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Кнежа) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Knezha.

Knezha Municipality Община Кнежа
Municipality
Knezha Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province.
Coordinates: 43°28′N 24°8′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Pleven
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Knezha
Area
• Total	317.83 km2 (122.71 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	14,839
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 317.83 km² with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,839 inhabitants.^[1]

Settlements

Knezha Municipality within Pleven Province

Pleven

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Cherven Bryag

•

Levski

•

Nikopol

•

Knezha

•

Belene

•

Dolna Mitropoliya

(towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Knezha	Кнежа	11,191
Brenitsa	Бреница	2,039
Enitsa	Еница	1,098
Lazarovo	Лазарово	511
Total		14,839

Demography

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

Knezha Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	22,031	20,329	18,640	17,079	15,932	15,372	14,839	...
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:

Religious composition of Knezha Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   79.8% Catholicism   0.9% Protestantism   0.6% Islam   0.5% No religion   9.9% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   8.4%

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

References

1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
2. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
3. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
4. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
5. National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
6. „pop-stat.mashke.org“
7. "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
8. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

• Knezha municipality website (in Bulgarian)