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Balchik Municipality

Municipality in Dobrich, Bulgaria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Balchik Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Балчик) is a municipality (obshtina) in Dobrich Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Balchik.

Quick facts Община Балчик, Country ...

The municipality embraces a territory of 523 km2 (202 sq mi) with a population of 19,331 inhabitants, as of 2018.[1]

The area is best known with the Balchik Palace complex in the main town as well as the luxury seaside resort of Albena. The main road E87 crosses the municipality connecting the port of Varna with the Romanian port of Konstanza.

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Settlements

Balchik Municipality includes the following 22 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.

Balchik Municipality
Year 1975 1985 1992 2001 2005 2007 2009 2011
Population 24,254 23,978 22,367 22,354 22,038 21,962 21,832 ...
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 Balchik Municipality [8]
Orthodox Christianity
65.3%
Catholicism
0.5%
Protestantism
0.5%
Islam
20.0%
No religion
4.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
9.6%
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