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Varbitsa Municipality
Municipality in Shumen, Bulgaria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Varbitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Върбица) is a municipality (obshtina) in Shumen Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the vicinity of the northern slopes of the Eastern Stara planina mountain to the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Varbitsa.
The municipality embraces a territory of 419.36 km2 (161.92 sq mi) with a population of 10,492 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1] The area contains the Ticha Reservoir - one of the biggest in the country, developed along the Kamchiya river. It is the reservoir with the largest perimeter in Bulgaria.
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Settlements
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Kaspichan
Novi Pazar
Veliki Preslav
Smyadovo
Kaolinovo
Hitrino
Venets
Nikola Kozlevo
Varbitsa Municipality includes the following 16 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.
| Varbitsa Municipality | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 14,116 | 13,648 | 11,841 | 11,249 | 10,861 | 10,658 | 10,492 | 10,391 |
| Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7] | ||||||||
Ethnic composition
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
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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