Vetovo Municipality

Vetovo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ветово) is a municipality (obshtina) in Ruse Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the western parts of Ludogorie geographical region, part of the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Vetovo.

Vetovo Municipality Община Ветово
Municipality
Vetovo Municipality within Bulgaria and Ruse Province.
Coordinates: 43°42′N 26°18′E
Country	Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)	Ruse
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)	Vetovo
Area
• Total	352.52 km2 (136.11 sq mi)
Population  (December 2009)[1]
• Total	13,738
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The municipality embraces a territory of 352.52 km² (136.11 sq mi) with a population of 13,738 inhabitants, as of December 2009.^[1]

The main road E70 crosses the area in the western part of the municipality, connecting the province centre of Ruse with the city of Razgrad and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

Settlements

Vetovo Municipality within Ruse Province

Ruse

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Slivo Pole

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Borovo

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Byala

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Vetovo

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Dve Mogili

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Ivanovo

•

Tsenovo

Vetovo Municipality includes the following 6 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population[2][3][4] (December 2009)
Vetovo	Ветово	4,777
Glodzhevo	Глоджево	3,659
Krivnya	Кривня	630
Pisanets	Писанец	407
Senovo	Сеново	1,580
Smirnenski	Смирненски	2,685
Total		13,738

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Vetovo Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Senovo and the numbers in the table reflect this unification.

Vetovo Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	12,089	11,583	18,230	18,774	15,707	15,367	13,738	...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]

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 Vetovo Municipality [8] Orthodox Christianity   35.2% Catholicism   0.1% Protestantism   0.0% Islam   58.6% No religion   1.1% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   5.0%

See also

• Provinces of Bulgaria
• Municipalities of Bulgaria
• List of cities and towns in Bulgaria

References

1. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
2. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived November 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
3. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
4. (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
5. (in English)National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
6. „pop-stat.mashke.org“
7. "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
8. "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.

External links

• Official website (in Bulgarian)