Kostenets Municipality

For other uses, see Kostenets (disambiguation).

The Kostenets municipality (Bulgarian: Община Костенец) is one of the 22 municipalities of the Sofia Province, Bulgaria. The extent of the territory is 302 km² and it had 14,154 inhabitants as of 2009. It encompasses the Valley of Gorna Banya, along the upper flow of the Maritsa river, surrounded by Rila to the south and Sredna Gora to the north. The region has many warm mineral springs in the spa resorts of Momin Prohod, Momina Banya, Kostenets and Pchelinski Bani. The municipality has an important transport location with the Trakiya motorway, the first class road Sofia-Plovdiv and the Sofia-Plovdiv railway passing through it.

Kostenets Municipality Община Костенец
Municipality
Kostenets Municipality Location of Kostenets (town)
Coordinates: 42°19′N 23°50′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Sofia
Area
• Total	302 km2 (117 sq mi)
Population  (2009-03-15)[1]
• Total	14,154
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Settlements

The municipality has nine settlements (2 towns and 7 villages) with a total population of 14,154 people (as of 2009-03-15)^[1]

The place names in bold have the status of town (in Bulgarian: град, transliterated as grad). Other localities have the status of village (in Bulgarian: село, transliterated as selo). The names of localities are transliterated in Latin alphabet,^[2][3] followed in parentheses by the original name in Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet (which links to the corresponding Bulgarian Wikipedia article).

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Pop.
Dolna Vasilitsa	Долна Василица	n/a
Golak	Голак	2
Gorna Vasilitsa	Горна Василица	257
Kostenets (town)	Костенец (град)	7,762
Kostenets (village)	Костенец (село)	4,025
Momin Prohod	Момин проход	1,788
Ochusha	Очуша	31
Pchelin	Пчелин	274
Podgorie	Подгорие	15
TOTAL		14,154

Demography

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 Kostenets Municipality [4] Orthodox Christianity   90.7% Catholicism   0.1% Protestantism   2.5% Islam   0.1% No religion   2.4% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   4.2%

References

1. (in Bulgarian) Population Chart as of 15 March 2009 from Directorate General: Civil Registration and Administrative Services
2. Geonames Search Archived 2010-03-07 at the Wayback Machine at National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - reference for location names
3. Kostenets Municipality at Guide-Bulgaria.com - reference for location names
4. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.