Lom Municipality
Lom Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Лом) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre — the town of Lom which is one of the important Bulgarian river ports. The area borders Romania across the Danube.
The municipality encompasses a territory of 323.89 km (125.05 sq mi) with a population of 27,294 inhabitants, as of February 2011.
Settlements
Berkovitsa
Boychinovtsi
Brusartsi
Chiprovtsi
Georgi Damyanovo
Medkovets
Valchedram
Varshets
Yakimovo
Lom Municipality includes the following 10 places (towns are shown in bold):
Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
---|---|---|
Lom | Лом | 24,300 |
Dobri Dol | Добри дол | 334 |
Dolno Linevo | Долно Линево | 266 |
Kovachitsa | Ковачица | 1,255 |
Orsoya | Орсоя | 133 |
Slivata | Сливата | 225 |
Staliyska Mahala | Сталийска махала | 1,369 |
Stanevo | Станево | 364 |
Traykovo | Трайково | 932 |
Zamfir | Замфир | 1,020 |
Total | 30,198 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Lom Municipality | ||||||||
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Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
Population | 43,672 | 42,950 | 40,262 | 35,077 | 32,135 | 31,170 | 30,198 | 27,294 |
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 Bulgarian) National Statistical Institute - Census 2011 Archived 2011-04-10 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
- ^ (in English) National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
- ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
- ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.
External links
- Official website (in Bulgarian)