Knezha Municipality
Knezha Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Кнежа) is a municipality (obshtina) in Pleven Province, Northern Bulgaria. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Knezha.
The municipality embraces a territory of 317.83 km with a population, as of December 2009, of 14,839 inhabitants.
Settlements
(towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
---|---|---|
Knezha | Кнежа | 11,191 |
Brenitsa | Бреница | 2,039 |
Enitsa | Еница | 1,098 |
Lazarovo | Лазарово | 511 |
Total | 14,839 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Knezha Municipality | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 22,031 | 20,329 | 18,640 | 17,079 | 15,932 | 15,372 | 14,839 | ... |
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:
See also
References
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009 Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
- ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
- ^ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
- ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
- ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
External links
- Knezha municipality website (in Bulgarian)