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Lom Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лом) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre — the town of Lom which is one of the important Bulgarian river ports. The area borders Romania across the Danube.
Lom Municipality
Община Лом | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
 Lom Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province. | |
| Coordinates: 43°48′N 23°16′E | |
| Country |  Bulgaria |
| Province (Oblast) | Montana |
| Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Lom |
| Area | |
• Total | 323.89 km2 (125.05 sq mi) |
| Population (Census February 2011)[1] | |
• Total | 27,294 |
| • Density | 84/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The municipality encompasses a territory of 323.89 km2 (125.05 sq mi) with a population of 27,294 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]
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Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4] (December 2009) |
|---|---|---|
| Lom | Лом | 24,300 |
| Dobri Dol | Добри дол | 334 |
| Dolno Linevo | Долно Линево | 266 |
| Kovachitsa | Ковачица | 1,255 |
| Orsoya | Орсоя | 133 |
| Slivata | Сливата | 225 |
| Staliyska Mahala | Сталийска махала | 1,369 |
| Stanevo | Станево | 364 |
| Traykovo | Трайково | 932 |
| Zamfir | Замфир | 1,020 |
| Total | 30,198 |
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The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
| Lom Municipality | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 43,672 | 42,950 | 40,262 | 35,077 | 32,135 | 31,170 | 30,198 | 27,294 |
| Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[1] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[6] | ||||||||
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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