Alfatar Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Алфатар) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain, in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region, about 15 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Alfatar.

The municipality embraces a territory of 248.57 km (95.97 sq mi) with a population of 3,324 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

The main road "7" crosses the area from north to south, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Shumen and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

Alfatar Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population (December 2009)
Alfatar	Алфатар	1,714
Alekovo	Алеково	578
Bistra	Бистра	367
Chukovets	Чуковец	287
Kutlovitsa	Кутловица	77
Tsar Asen	Цар Асен	191
Vasil Levski	Васил Левски	110
Total		3,324

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Alfatar Municipality
Year	1975	1985	1992	2001	2005	2007	2009	2011
Population	6,373	5,454	4,630	3,990	3,629	3,451	3,324	...
Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“,

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the majority of the population of Alfatar Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people in Bulgaria.

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 Alfatar Municipality Orthodox Christianity   68.8% Catholicism   0.0% Protestantism   0.1% Islam   20.2% No religion   4.9% Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable   6.0%

	Population	Live births	Deaths	Natural growth	Birth rate (‰)	Death rate (‰)	Natural growth rate (‰)
2000	4,313	38	91	-53	8.8	21.0	-12.3
2001	3,927	29	92	-63	7.4	23.4	-16.0
2002	3,813	18	90	-72	4.7	23.6	-18.9
2003	3,725	26	95	-69	7.0	25.5	-18.5
2004	3,655	23	80	-57	6.3	21.9	-15.6
2005	3,629	18	85	-67	5.0	23.4	-18.5
2006	3,544	18	91	-73	5.1	25.7	-20.6
2007	3,451	19	74	-55	5.5	21.4	-15.9
2008	3,390	20	68	-48	5.9	20.1	-14.2
2009	3,324	34	80	-46	10.2	24.1	-13.9
2010	3,241	10	64	-54	3.1	19.7	-16.7
2011	3,020	23	64	-41	7.6	21.2	-13.6
2012	2,952	15	74	-59	5.1	25.1	-20.0
2013	2,892	14	64	-50	4.8	22.1	-17.3
2014	2,812	18	79	-61	6.4	28.1	-21.7
2015	2,761	13	65	-52	4.7	23.5	-18.8
2016	2,704	21	69	-48	7.8	25.5	-17.8
2017	2,690	23	64	-41	8.6	23.8	-15.2
2018	2,655	15	77	-62	5.6	29.0	-23.4

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