Valchedram Municipality
Municipality in Vidin, Bulgaria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valchedram Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Вълчедръм) 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 Valchedram. The area borders on Romania beyond the Danube to the north.
Valchedram Municipality
Община Вълчедръм | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
 Valchedram Municipality within Bulgaria and Montana Province. | |
| Coordinates: 43°43′N 23°30′E | |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Province (Oblast) | Vidin |
| Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar) | Valchedram |
| Area | |
• Total | 429 km2 (166 sq mi) |
| Population (Census February 2011)[1] | |
• Total | 9,771 |
| • Density | 23/km2 (59/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The municipality embraces a territory of 429 km2 (166 sq mi) with a population of 9,771 inhabitants, as of February 2011.[1]
Settlements
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Berkovitsa
Boychinovtsi
Brusartsi
Chiprovtsi
Georgi Damyanovo
Lom
Medkovets
Varshets
Yakimovo
Valchedram Municipality includes the following 11 places (towns are shown in bold):
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population[2][3][4] (December 2009) |
|---|---|---|
| Valchedram | Вълчедръм | 3,817 |
| Botevo | Ботево | 77 |
| Bazovets | Бъзовец | 161 |
| Cherni Vrah | Черни връх | 534 |
| Dolni Tsibar | Долни Цибър | 1,544 |
| Gorni Tsibar | Горни Цибър | 205 |
| Ignatovo | Игнатово | 295 |
| Mokresh | Мокреш | 889 |
| Razgrad | Разград | 839 |
| Septemvriytsi | Септемврийци | 1,151 |
| Zlatia | Златия | 886 |
| Total | 10,398 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Valchedram Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Zlatiya and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.
| Valchedram Municipality | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 13,538 | 11,394 | 15,852 | 13,146 | 11,645 | 10,986 | 10,398 | 9,771 |
| 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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