Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Долна Митрополия) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It embraces a territory of 674.81 km2 (260.55 sq mi) with a population, as of December 2009, of 21,304 inhabitants.[1] The administrative centre of the area is the homonymous town of Dolna Mitropoliya.
Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality
Община Долна Митрополия | |
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Municipality | |
![]() Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality within Bulgaria and Pleven Province. | |
Coordinates: 43°33′N 24°30′E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province (Oblast) | Pleven |
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Dolna Mitropoliya |
Area | |
• Total | 674.81 km2 (260.55 sq mi) |
Population (December 2009)[1] | |
• Total | 21,304 |
• Density | 32/km2 (82/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The northern boundary of the municipality is the Danube River, and the 10,926 hectare Natura 2000 Reka Vit Special Protection Area for preservation of avian habitat is located there.[2]
Settlements
(towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[3][4][5] (December 2009) |
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Dolna Mitropoliya | Долна Митрополия | 3,303 |
Baykal | Байкал | 562 |
Bivolare | Биволаре | 627 |
Bozhuritsa | Божурица | 1,102 |
Bregare | Брегаре | 637 |
Gorna Mitropoliya | Горна Митрополия | 1,827 |
Gostilya | Гостиля | 279 |
Komarevo | Комарево | 1,224 |
Krushovene | Крушовене | 1,054 |
Orehovitsa | Ореховица | 1,440 |
Pobeda | Победа | 517 |
Podem | Подем | 1,023 |
Riben | Рибен | 769 |
Slavovitsa | Славовица | 573 |
Stavertsi | Ставерци | 1,848 |
Trastenik | Тръстеник | 4,519 |
Total | 21,304 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Podem and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
Dolna Mitropoliya Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 28,405 | 24,079 | 29,087 | 25,311 | 22,994 | 22,237 | 21,304 | ... |
Sources: Census 2001,[6] Census 2011,[7] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[8] |
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:
See also
References
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