Gulyantsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Гулянци) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river, by the border with Romania. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Gulyantsi. As of December 2009, the municipality has a total population of 13,561 inhabitants.
The main cultural sight in the municipality are the ruins of the large Ancient Roman city of Ulpia Oescus.
Gulyantsi municipality has an area of 458 square kilometres, of which 70% is arable. The region is flat, with elevation ranging from 30 to 50 metres above sea level. The northern boundary of the municipality is the Danube River, between river kilometres 604 and 639.
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Gulyantsi Municipality
Year
1975
1985
1992
2001
2005
2007
2009
2011
Population
25,588
22,203
20,135
16,752
15,007
14,294
13,561
...
Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“,
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: